Icons of democracy
Subtitle: American leaders as heroes, aristocrats, dissenters, and democrats
By: Bruce Miroff.
Edition: [New ed.].
Publisher: University Press of Kansas
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Lawrence
Language: eng
Number of pages: 422
Subjects: Political leadership -- United States -- History.; Statesmen -- United States -- History.; Dissenters -- United States -- History.; Heroes -- United States -- History.; United States -- Politics and government.
Description: "Bruce Miroff looks at how nine American leaders - John Adams, Alexander Hamilton, Abraham Lincoln, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Eugene V. Debs. Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Martin Luther King, Jr., and John F. Kennedy have either successfully encouraged or undermined citizens' participatory role in the it democracy and helps us rediscover what leadership has meant in the past and how it can reinvigorate public life today.

In a blend of history, biography, political science, and political theory, he offers examples of the finest democratic leadership as well as cautionary tales of prominent leaders whose styles were essentially aristocratic."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.