The History of the Cold war: A Comparative Perspective
Personality Matters
Fred Greenstein; The Presidential Difference: Leadershipo Style from FDR to Clinton
chapt 1 "The Presidential Difference" I devote a chapter to each of my subjects, providing a concise
account of his background, political style, and conduct of the presidency.
I consider each chief executive on his own terms, out of a conviction
that the modern presidents have been too disparate to be
usefully pigeonholed. Nevertheless, I am particularly attentive to six
qualities that relate to presidential job performance.
The first, which pertains to the outer face of leadership, is the president's
proficiency as a public communicator. The second, which relates
to the inner workings of the presidency, is the president's organizational
capacity-his ability to rally his colleagues and structure their
activities effectively. The third and fourth bear on the president as political
operator-his political skill and the extent to which it is har-nessed to a vision of public policy. The fifth is the cognitive style with
which the president processes the Niagara of advice and information
that comes his way. The last is what the German sociologist Max
Weber called "the firm taming of the soul" and has come to be referred
to as emotional intelligence-the president's ability to manage his emotions
and turn them to constructive purposes, rather than being dominated
by them and allowing them to diminish his leadership.3 ..... |
James David Barber ; The Presidential Character
Chapt 1 "Presidential Character and How to Foresee It" The burden of this book is that the crucial differences can be anticipated
by an understanding of a potential President's character, his world view, and
his style This kind of prediction is not easy; well-informed observers often
have guessed wrong as they watched a man step toward the White House. One
thinks of Woodrow Wilson, the scholar who would bring reason to politics; of
Herbert Hoover, the Great Engineer who would organize chaos into progress;
of Franklin D. Roosevelt, that champion of the balanced budget; of Harry
Truman, whom the office would surely overwhelm; of Dwight D. Eisenhower,
militant crusader; of John F. Kennedy, who would lead beyond moralisms to achievements; of Lyndon B. Johnson, the Southern conservative; and of Richard M. Nixon, conciliator. Spotting the errors is easy. Predicting with
even approximate accuracy is going to require some sharp tools and close attention in their use. But the experiment is worth it because the question is critical and because it lends itself to correction by evidence.
My argument comes in layers.
First, a President's personality is an important shaper of his Presidential behavior on nontrivial matters.
Second, Presidential personality is patterned. His character, world view, and style fit together in a dynamic package understandable in psychological terms.
Third, a President's personality interacts with the power situation he faces
and the national "climate of expectations" dominant at the time he serves. The tuning, the resonance--or lack of it--between these external factors and
his personality sets in motion the dynamic of his Presidency.
Fourth, the best way to predict a President's character, world view, and
style is to see how they were put together in the first place. What happened in
his early life, culminating in his first independent political successes.
But the core of the argument (which organizes the structure of the book)
is that Presidential character-the basic stance a man takes toward his Presidential
experience-come in four varieties. The most important thing to know
about a President or candidate-is'where he fits among these types, defined according to (a) how active he is and (b) whether or not he gives the impression he enjoys political life.he gives the impression he enjoys Iifs political life. .... |
Franklyn D. Roosevelt
March 4, 1933-April 12, 1945
The Virtuosic Leadership of
Franklin D. Roosevelt
THE
PRESIDENTIAL
DIFFERENCE
LEADERSHIP STYLE
FROM FDR TO CLINTON
FRED I. GREENSTEIN
Joseph Stalin
April 3, 1922-March 5, 1953
STALIN: THE TWIST OF REALPOLITiK
Roosevelt the Soldier of Freedon
James MacGregor Burns
Harry S Truman
April 12, 1945-Jan 20, 1953
Harry S Truman
and Active-Positive
Combat
THE
PRESIDENTIAL
CHARACTER
· Predicting
Performance
in the
WhiteHouse
by
JAMES DAVID BARBER
Nikta Khrushchev
Sept 7, 1953--Oct 14, 1964
The Third Leader: Nikita Khrushchev
Autopsy for an Empire
Volkogonov
Dwight David Eisenhower
Jan 20, 1953--Jan 20, 1961
The Unexpected Eisenhower
THE PRESIDENTIAL DIFFERENCE
LEADERSHIP STYLE FROM FDR TO CLINTON
FRED I. GREENSTEIN
John F. Kennedy
Jan 20, 1961-Nov 22, 1963
Greenstein & Dallek
Lyndon B. Johnson
Nov 22, 1963--Jan 20, 1969
Doris Kerns Goodwin
LBJ
Leonid Brezhnev
October 14, 1964 – November 10, 1982
Georgi Arbatov-Brezhnev
Richard M. Nixon
Jan 20, 1969--Aug 9, 1974
THE ODD COUPLE
Dallek Nixon & Kissinger
Gerald Ford
Aug 9, 1974--Jan 20, 1977
Jimmy Carter
January 20, 1977 – January 20, 1981
Personality
Jimmy
Carter:
In search of the great
White House
by BETTY GLAD
Yuri Andropov
General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
Nov 12, 1982-Feb 9, 1984
Konstantin Cherenko
General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
Feb 13, 1984-Mar 10, 1985
Mikhail Gorbachev
15 March 1990 – 25 December 1991
Ronald Reagan
January 20, 1981 – January 20, 1989
George Bush
January 20, 1989 – January 20, 1993