The end of greatness : why America can't have (and doesn't want) another great president /
"There is one thing that has haunted all of America's modern presidents: Americans' expectations of greatness in the man and the office. While it was impossible for the Framers of the Constitution to predict the circumstances that would make America the greatest and most consequential...
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| Language: | English |
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New York, New York :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2014.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Greatness revealed. The indespensibles: greatness with a capital g ; The three c's of greatness in presidence ; Capacity: getting things done ; Close but no cigar
- Greatness gone. FDR's high bar ; Not your grandfather's crisis ; The president of America the ungovernable? ; Boxers or briefs: media and the personalized presidency ; Traces of greatness?
- What's so great about being great, anyway. Too ambivalent about greatness ; Too rare to be relevant and too dangerous to be desirable ; Distorts history and our politics too ; Disappointer in chief?
- Greatness with a small g.