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Perspectives on presidential leadership [electronic resource] : an international view of the White House / edited by Michael Patrick Cullinane and Clare Frances Elliott.

Contributor(s): Cullinane, Michael Patrick, 1979- | Elliott, Clare FrancesMaterial type: Text

TextSeries: Routledge research in american politics and governance ; 15.Publication details: New York : Routledge, 2014Description: xix, 234 pISBN: 9780203796504 (e-book : PDF)Subject(s): Presidents -- Rating of -- United States | Presidents -- United States -- Biography | Presidents -- United States -- History -- Case studies | Political leadership -- United States -- Case studies | United States -- Politics and government -- Case studies | United States -- Politics and government -- Public opinion | United States -- Foreign public opinionGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: No titleOnline resources: Click here to view Also available in print edition.

Contents:

Introduction : rating America's presidents : a UK perspective / Iwan Morgan -- 1. The meanings of going first : George Washington and the presidency / Finn Pollard -- 2. John Quincy Adams : an exceptionally average president? / Peter O'Connor -- 3. A poetic presidency : Abraham Lincoln, Walt Whitman, and the second American Revolution / Clare Frances Elliott -- 4. Andrew Johnson : the wrong man in the wrong place / Iwan Morgan -- 5. A (near) great president : Theodore Roosevelt as the first modern president / Michael Patrick Cullinane -- 6. Reevaluating the presidency of Warren G. Hardin / Niall Palmer -- 7. Simply the best : FDR as America's number one president / Tony McCulloch -- 8. King's last president : a Canadian prime minister's perspective on Harry S. Truman's first term / Hector Mackenzie -- 9. LBJ : if not for Vietnam / Sylvia Ellis -- 10. The Reagan presidency in retrospect : an assessment of Reagan's legacy / Sally-Ann Treharne -- 11. George H.W. Bush and presidential peacemaking in ranking American presidents / J. Simon Rofe -- 12. President Bill Clinton : ranking, reputation, and legacy / John Dumbrell -- 13. An Obama doctrine? / Omer Aziz and David G. Haglund.

Summary: In 2011 Barack Obama invited ten distinguished biographers to the White House to ask them one question: which past American president should I emulate? This was not the first time Obama asked scholars this, but the answer he received would differ as presidential legacies waxed and waned. In 2008 Obama chose Lincoln; in 2009, Reagan; and in 2010, Theodore Roosevelt. Perspectives on Presidential Leadership is an examination of presidential legacy, and in particular an analysis of the first ever UK ranking of American presidents which took place in 2011. In thirteen chapters, thirteen individual presidential administrations are assessed. Some presidents have been considered a success, others a failure; both types are featured in these thirteen case studies in a measured attempt to understand how the perception of presidential leadership evolves, shifts, and contorts across three centuries of American politics. The case studies also derive from the expertise of the collected British, Irish and Canadian authors, all of whom are leading scholars in their fields, and many of which took part in the 2011 survey. At a time when understanding presidential legacy is in high demand, this book offers a unique international perspective. Through extended commentary and inter-disciplinary study of the UK perspective it provides groundbreaking research-- Provided by publisher.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

In 2011 Barack Obama invited ten distinguished biographers to the White House to ask them one question: which past American president should I emulate? This was not the first time Obama asked scholars this, but the answer he received would differ as presidential legacies waxed and waned. In 2008 Obama chose Lincoln; in 2009, Reagan; and in 2010, Theodore Roosevelt. Perspectives on Presidential Leadership is an examination of presidential legacy, and in particular an analysis of the first ever UK ranking of American presidents which took place in 2011. In thirteen chapters, thirteen individual presidential administrations are assessed. Some presidents have been considered a success, others a failure; both types are featured in these thirteen case studies in a measured attempt to understand how the perception of presidential leadership evolves, shifts, and contorts across three centuries of American politics. The case studies also derive from the expertise of the collected British, Irish and Canadian authors, all of whom are leading scholars in their fields, and many of which took part in the 2011 survey. At a time when understanding presidential legacy is in high demand, this book offers a unique international perspective. Through extended commentary and inter-disciplinary study of the UK perspective it provides groundbreaking research-- Provided by publisher.

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