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Title Political leadership for the new century : personality and behavior among American leaders / edited by Linda O. Valenty and Ofer Feldman
Published Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2002

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Description 1 online resource (xviii, 271 pages)
Contents The qualitative study of presidential personality / Fred I. Greenstein -- Political leadership: some methodological considerations / Betty Glad -- Motivation and political leadership / David Winter -- U.S. presidents as conflict managers: the operational codes of George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton / Mark Schafer, Michael D. Young, and Stephen G. Walker -- Motive imagery and integrative complexity: Bill Clinton, George Mitchell, and the Northern Ireland peace talks / Linda O. Valenty and Mary E. Carroll -- The political personality of U.S. president George W. Bush / Aubrey Immelman -- Assessments of America's chief executives: insights from biographers and objective personality measures / Steven J. Rubenzer, Thomas R. Faschingbauer, and Deniz S. Ones -- Studying images and their impact on behavior: the case of the Carter Administration / Jerel Rosati -- John F. Kennedy as dramatic leader / Robert E. Gilbert -- Cloak and swagger: personality and leadership in the vice presidency of Spiro T. Agnew / Scott W. Webster -- Governing a divided America in the new millennium: heroic versus reflective leadership / Stanley A. Renshon
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-258) and index
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Subject Personality and politics -- United States
Personality and occupation -- United States
Political leadership -- United States -- Psychological aspects
Political psychology.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Process -- Leadership.
Personality and occupation
Personality and politics
Political leadership -- Psychological aspects
Political psychology
United States
Form Electronic book
Author Valenty, Linda O
Feldman, Ofer, 1954-
ISBN 0313010633
9780313010637