The Hidden-Hand Presidency
by Greenstein, Fred I.Edition: Reprint
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Pub. Date: 1994-03-01
Publisher(s): Johns Hopkins Univ Pr
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Summary
With a new Foreword that examines the continuing significance of the Eisenhower presidency, this title reveals that there was great political activity beneath the placid surface of the executive office under Eisenhower. "To read (this book) is to discover . . . that everything you ever believed about Dwight Eisenhower as president of the United States is wrong".--"Economist".
Author Biography
Fred I. Greenstein is professor of politics at Princeton University
Table of Contents
| Preface: A 1994 Perspective | p. vii |
| Prologue and Acknowledgments | p. xix |
| Introduction | |
| An Exemplary President? | p. 3 |
| What Manner of Man? | p. 15 |
| Eisenhower's Leadership Style | |
| Political Strategies | p. 57 |
| The Two Faces of Organization | p. 100 |
| An Assessment of the Style and Its Uses | |
| Strengths and Weaknesses of the Style: The Joe McCarthy Case | p. 155 |
| Lessons for Other Presidents | p. 228 |
| Key to Primary Sources and Abbreviations | p. 249 |
| Notes | p. 251 |
| Index | p. 272 |
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