Presidential Personality and Performance

ISBN-13: 9780367299675 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 304 str.

Alexander L. George; Juliette L. George

Opis

This book, which examines the leadership styles and decisionmaking practices of presidents from Woodrow Wilson to Bill Clinton, reflects the authors interest for over half a century in the impact of personality on the political behavior of our political leaders.

Spis treści

Foreword -- Introduction: An Overview -- The Psychoanalyst and the Biographer -- Some Uses of Dynamic Psychology in Political Biography: Case Materials on Woodrow Wilson -- Writing Psychobiography: Some Theoretical and Methodological Issues -- Woodrow Wilson and Colonel House: A Reply to Weinstein, Anderson, and Link -- Assessing Presidential Character -- Presidential Management Styles and Models

O autorze

Alexander L. George is professor emeritus of international relations at Stanford University. His extensive writings have won many awards, including the Bancroft Prize for Deterrence in American Foreign Policy: Theory and Practice (1974), coauthored with Richard Smoke; a five-year MacArthur Prize Fellowship; the 1997 National Academy of Sciences Award for Behavioral Research Relevant to the Prevention of Nuclear War; and the 1998 Johan Skytte Prize in Political Science. From 1984 until her retirement in 1990, Juliette L. George was a senior scholar at the Institute for International Studies at Stanford University. She is a leading scholar on Woodrow Wilson.