Wounded titans
Subtitle: American presidents and the perils of power
By: Max Lerner ; edited, and with an introduction by Robert Schmuhl.
Contributors: Schmuhl, Robert.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Arcade Pub.; Distributed by Little, Brown and Co.
Published: 1996
Place of publication: New York; [Boston, Mass.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 437
Subjects: Presidents -- United States -- History; Presidents -- United States -- Biography; Presidents -- United States -- Election -- History -- 20th century; Power (Social sciences) -- United States -- History; United States -- Politics and government -- 20th century
Description: "Max Lerner taught generations of Americans about their government: who rules, why, and how. For almost half a century, the office of the presidency preoccupied his prodigious energies and unparalleled expertise. Lerner not only wrote about the men who inhabited the Oval Office during that time, he knew them personally, from Franklin D. Roosevelt to Bill Clinton - and he knew what made them tick. Here, collected for the first time, are Lerner's complete writings on the presidency and American presidents." "Wounded Titans contains Lerner's classic essays on the presidency and its development. Here, too, are his most famous presidential portraits of Jefferson and Lincoln - the presidents he believed most significantly shaped both the office and our perception of it - as well as of the men who inherited the modern-day office created by Roosevelt. Each portrait combines a rigorous and unblinking analysis of its subject's place in history with a sympathetic appreciation of his humanity. Everything about the office of the presidency fascinated Lerner, including how someone ran for it. This volume also contains the best of Lerner's campaign journalism, written for his widely syndicated column, which appeared in the New York Post for over four decades."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.