The Lanahan cases in leadership, ethics & decision-making
By: edited by Douglas M. Brattebo, Eloise F. Malone ; with the assistance of Ann G. Serow.
Contributors: Brattebo, Douglas M.; Malone, Eloise F.
Publisher: Lanahan Publishers
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Baltimore, MD
Language: eng
Number of pages: 156
Subjects: Political leadership -- United States -- Case studies.; Political ethics -- United States -- Case studies.; Decision making -- Case studies.
Genres: Case studies.
Description: A collection of writings about leadership in the American political system, both its constitutional and ethical foundations and its practice by individuals in trying settings.
Table of contents: title: Nature's God and the founding fathers -- E.M. Halliday -- 'A; title: tub to the whale': the adoption of the Bill of Rights -- Kenneth R. Bowling; title: Reflections on the bicentennial of the United States Constitution -- Thurgood Marshall; title: Where have all the great men gone? -- Richard D. Brown; title: Washington: the indispensable man -- James Thomas Flexner; title: John Quincy Adams: a public life, a private life -- Paul C. Nagel; title: With malice toward none: the life of Abraham Lincoln -- Stephen Oates; title: When the laws were silent -- William H. Rehnquist; title: No ordinary time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: the home front in World War II -- Doris Kearns Goodwin; title: Truman -- David McCullough; title: The triumph of Watergate -- Walter Karp and Vance Bourjaily; title: Firewall: the Iran-contra conspiracy and cover-up -- Lawrence E. Walsh.