Running alone [electronic resource] : presidential leadership-- JFK to Bush II : why it has failed and how we can fix it / James MacGregor Burns.
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TextPublication details: New York : Basic Books, 2006.Description: 1 online resource (vii, 278 p.)ISBN: - 9780786748570 (electronic bk.)
- 0786748575 (electronic bk.)
- Since 1900
- Political participation -- United States
- Isolation (Philosophy) -- Case studies
- Political leadership -- United States -- Case studies
- Presidents -- United States -- Biography
- Presidents -- United States -- History -- 21st century
- Presidents -- United States -- History -- 20th century
- Presidents -- United States -- Biography
- Political leadership -- United States -- Case studies
- Isolation (Philosophy) -- Case studies
- HISTORY / United States / 20th Century
- Isolation (Philosophy)
- Political leadership
- Political participation
- Political science
- Presidents
- United States -- Politics and government -- 1989- -- Case studies
- United States -- Politics and government -- 1945-1989 -- Case studies
- United States -- Politics and government -- 1945-1989 -- Case studies
- United States -- Politics and government -- 1989- -- Case studies
- United States
- 973.92092/2 22
- E176.1 .B9345 2006
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| BV4597.53.L43 2000 C.2 Leading from the inside out : | BV4740.P35 2000 Let your life speak : | BX6452.K5 1981 Strength to love / | E176.B9345 2006 Running alone | E97.A447201 2015 American Indian stories of success | E97.D47 2001 Power and place : | E175.5.B85.E88 1989 Essays in honor of James MacGregor Burns / |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 203-261) and index.
"I think you underestimate him" -- The tribal thrust -- Pushing and shoving -- The power broker -- JFK and LBJ: governing together -- Nixon-Reagan: the grand new party -- The Carter-Clinton connection -- The Bushes: standing together alone -- Needed: party polarization -- Empowering followers.
The political scientist and leadership expert examines the decline of presidential leadership in America and sets forth proposals for change.
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