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Presidents and the Dissolution of the Union : Leadership Style From Polk to Lincoln by Fred I. Greenstein; Dale Anderson is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
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The strengths and weaknesses of the presidents who led the United States to the Civil War The United States witnessed an unprecedented failure of its political system in the mid-nineteenth century, resulting in a disastrous civil war that claimed the lives of an estimated 750,000 Americans. In his other acclaimed books about the American presidency, Fred Greenstein assesses the personal strengths and weaknesses of presidents from George Washington to Barack Obama. Here, he evaluates the leadership styles of the Civil War-era presidents. Using his trademark no-nonsense approach, Greenstein looks at the presidential qualities of James K. Polk, Zachary Taylor, Millard Fillmore, Franklin Pierce, James Buchanan, and Abraham Lincoln. For each president, he provides a concise history of the man's life and presidency, and evaluates him in the areas of public communication, organizational capacity, political skill, policy vision, cognitive style, and emotional intelligence. Greenstein sheds light on why Buchanan is justly ranked as perhaps the worst president in the nation's history, how Pierce helped set the stage for the collapse of the Union and the bloodiest war America had ever experie
Who reads Presidents and the Dissolution of the Union : Leadership Style From Polk to Lincoln?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Fred I. Greenstein; Dale Anderson
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Published
- 2013
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781400846412
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- History, Biography, Memoir