Title: The Presidential Difference
First published: May 19, 2000
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.
Subjects: Politics and government, Political leadership, Presidents, Personality and politics, History, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, HISTORY / United States / State & Local / General, Presidents, united states, United states, politics and government, Leadership
Places: United States
LC classification: JK511 .G74 2004