Dilemmas of Presidential Leadership: From Washington Through Lincoln

by Richard J. Ellis

Book Overview

Dilemmas of Presidential Leadership challenges the widely accepted distinction between "traditional" and "modern" presidencies, a dichotomy by which political science has justified excluding from its domain of inquiry all presidents preceding Franklin Roosevelt. Rather than divide history into two mutually exclusive eras, Richard Ellis and Aaron Wildavsky divide the world into three sorts of people-egalitarians, individualists and hierarchs. All presidents,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0887382215
• ISBN13: 9780887382215
• Release Date: January 1989
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 546 Pages
• Weight: 1.24 lbs.