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What is Power and Prudence: The Presidency of George H. W. Bush (Joseph V. Hughes Jr. and Holly O. Hughes Series on the Presidency and Leadership) about?

<p>when George H. W. Bush Took Office In January 1989, He Brought To The Presidency An Impressive Resume. A Former Member Of Congress, National Party Leader, Cia Director, Ambassador To China, And Two-term Vice President, He Had The Credentials And Experience For A Uniquely Successful Presidency. Less Than Four Years Later, The American Electorate Resoundingly Proclaimed His Administration A Failure. Many Pundits And Scholars Have Echoed The Voters' Judgment. In A Considered And Balanced Reassessment, Ryan J. Barilleaux And Mark J. Rozell Ask Whether The Public And The Pundits Have Applied The Wrong Criteria Of Presidential Evaluation. <p>looking At The Context In Which Bush Came Into Office, Barilleaux And Rozell Argue That His Strategy Of Incrementalism May Indeed Have Been Right For The Times And Any Failure May Have Lain Only In Bush's Inability To Convince The Public Of That. Moreover, The Authors Disagree With The Common Assessment That Bush Pursued Incrementalism Only In Domestic Policy, Arguing That It Characterized His Foreign Policy As Well. <p><i>power And Prudence</i> Is A Study In Presidential Evaluation. It Represents A Challenge To The Conventional Wisdom That Has De

Author

Barilleaux, Ryan J., Rozell, Mark J.

Publisher

College Station: Texas A & M University Press

Published

2004

Language

EN

ISBN

9781585442911

Subjects

History, Political Science, Humanities