Presidential Command: Power, Leadership, and the Making of Foreign Policy from Richard Nixon to G...
A revelatory account from a Washington insider of how modern presidents have succeeded—and failed—in making foreign policy. An importan...
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Aug 05, 2011
A very interesting insider's look at Presidential management styles and designs, largely through the lens of the National Security Council and the federal bureaucracy - State and Defense, most particularly. Rodman looks at administrations in some depth from Nixon through Bush 43 (and briefly but fascinatingly dealing with Truman through LBJ), their organizational strengths and weaknesses, personalities, Presidential characteristics and individual strengths and weaknesses to explain and illustra
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