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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Liberalism and leadership
    sub title: the irony of Arthur Schlesinger, Jr
  name:
    name part: Lester, Emile
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: biography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: miu
    date issued: 2019
    copyright date: 2019
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 252 pages ; 24 cm.
  abstract: A growing literature on the Presidency identifies the technical skills of Presidents by focusing on their political thought and moral values, often assuming a President's values and goals are the most crucial component of his moral thought and behavior. Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.'s was an empiricist and historian whose work on the presidency shows that value commitments do not translate smoothly into policy achievements. Possessing the dispositions and skills to address setbacks and unexpected crises was as vital to Franklin Roosevelt's and John Kennedy's accomplishments as their liberal moral views. At the same time, Schlesinger implied several key skills Roosevelt and Kennedy demonstrated were moral virtues rather than mere techniques intended to enhance the President's power. Schlesinger's moral framework relies on insights about trends in American history to argue Roosevelt's and Kennedy's ironic virtues often helped them avoid dangerous illusions to which Americans have been prone to succumb. Appreciating the history-based regime analysis at the heart of Schlesinger's liberalism opens up a new avenue of presidential analysis and may offer a path forward. In an age where external, institutional checks on the Presidency continue to dwindle, internal checks on Presidential overreach become all the more necessary. Schlesinger may have acknowledged and often championed the expansion of the President's institutional powers, but he also urged liberal leaders to cultivate ironic virtues to prevent these powers' abuse. That his counsel was grounded in conservative insights as well as liberal values makes it accessible to leaders across the political spectrum.
  table of contents: Liberal irony and Burkean conservatism -- Ironic virtues and the liberal president -- Speaking loudly but carrying a small stick -- The terror and the hope -- Is ironic liberalism self-defeating? -- Conclusion: Was Obama too ironic or not ironic enough?
  note: Emile Lester.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: n-us---
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Jr
      name part: Schlesinger, Arthur M., (Arthur Meier)
      name part: 1917-2007
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano)
      name part: 1882-1945
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald)
      name part: 1917-1963
  subject:
    topic: Presidents
    geographic: United States
    topic: History
    temporal: 20th century
  subject:
    topic: Liberalism
    geographic: United States
    topic: History
    temporal: 20th century
  subject:
    topic: Political leadership
    geographic: United States
    topic: History
    temporal: 20th century
  subject:
    topic: Irony
    topic: Political aspects
    geographic: United States
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Executive power
    geographic: United States
    topic: History
  subject:
    geographic: United States
    topic: Historiography
  classification: E175.5.S38 L47 2019
  classification: 973.91092 B
  identifier: 9780472131518
  identifier: 0472131516
  identifier: 9780472125876
  identifier: 2019016056
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 190808
    record change date: 20200117110007.0
    record identifier: in00004083891