Personality, character, and leadership in the White House
Subtitle: psychologists assess the presidents
By: Steven J. Rubenzer and Thomas R. Faschingbauer.
Contributors: Faschingbauer, Thomas R.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Brassey's
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 385
Subjects: Presidents -- United States -- Psychology.
Description: "Personality, Character, and Leadership in the White House is the first book-length work to present scientific personality evaluations of the American presidents. This benchmark work improves our understanding of the personal qualities that made great presidents in the past and will produce successful leaders in the future." "Dr. Steven Rubenzer and Dr. Thomas Faschingbauer asked 120 experts, including biographers, historians, presidential advisers, and other knowledge-able sources, to rate the presidents by filling out a standardized personality test. For each president that fell within their area of expertise, the evaluators completed a 592-item questionnaire regarding personality, intelligence, and behavior. From the results, the authors identify nine traits related to presidential success, examine how the presidents' personalities affected their job performance, and list presidents' scores on the major dimensions of personality and the nine traits of a "Leadership Profile." Rubenzer and Faschingbauer provide insights about every American president and profile twenty-one of them in detail, including all post-World War II presidents and all of the presidents widely considered to have been the best."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 361-378) and index.
Table of contents: title: Personality and character; title: Who are these guys? personality characteristics of presidents, founding fathers, Democrats, and Republicans; title: Predicting presidential success (with Deniz S. Ones); title: Types of presidents; title: Three dominators; title: Andrew Jackson, Lyndon Johnson, and Richard Nixon; title: Two introverts; title: John Adams and Woodrow Wilson; title: Two good guys; title: Dwight Eisenhower and Gerald Ford; title: One  Innocent; title: Ulysses S. Grant; title: Two actors; title: Warren Harding and Ronald Reagan; title: Two maintainers; title: Harry Truman and George H.W. Bush; title: Three  philosophes; title: Thomas Jefferson, Abe Lincoln, and Jimmy Carter; title: Three extroverts; title: Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin Roosevelt, and John Kennedy; title: Special cases; title: George Washington and Bill Clinton; title: George Walker Bush; title: Epilogue; title: Appendixes.