The Presidential Difference
Subtitle: Leadership Style from Roosevelt to Clinton
Publisher: Free Press
Published: May 19, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780684827339
Subjects: American history: from c 1900 -; Biography: general; Central government; Political leaders & leadership; U.S. President; Politics - Current Events; Political Psychology; United States - 20th Century; Political Science; Politics / Current Events; Public Affairs & Administration; Politics/International Relations; USA; Political Process - Leadership; History / General; United States; History; Personality and politics; Political leadership; Presidents
First sentence: On April 1, 1954, President Dwight D. Eisenhower convened the National Security Council (NSC) to consider a matter of war or peace.
Description: "Drawing on a quarter-century's immersion in the presidential record and scores of interviews, Fred I. Greenstein provides an account of the qualities that have served well and poorly in the Oval Office from Franklin D. Roosevelt's first hundred days to the end of the Clinton administration.".

"Greenstein offers a series of bottom-line judgments on each of his eleven subjects and a bold new explanation of why presidents succeed or fail. Previous analysts have placed their bets on the president's political prowess or personal character. Yet by the first standard, LBJ should have been our greatest president, and by the second the nod would go to Jimmy Carter. Greenstein surveys each president's record in public communication, political skill, vision, cognitive style, and emotional intelligence.

He concludes that the last is by far the most important."--BOOK JACKET.