Richard E NeustadtPresidential Power and the Modern Presidents
The Politics of Leadership from Roosevelt to Reagan
Richard E. Neustadt is Douglas Dillon Professor of Government in the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. For three decades an advisor to presidents, their aides, and to members of the cabinet, he is the author of Alliance Politics and the influential study, Presidential Power.
Contents
Preface to the 1990 Edition
Preface to the First Edition
Acknowledgments, 1990
PART ONE: Presidential Power
1 Leader or Clerk?
2 Three Cases of Command
3 The Power to Persuade
4 Professional Reputation
5 Public Prestige
6 Two Matters of Choice
7 Men in Office
8 The Sixties Come Next
PART TWO: Later Reflections
9 Appraising a President
10 Reappraising Power
11 Hazards of Transition
12 A Matter of Detail
13 Two Cases of Self-Help
Notes
Index
