Book Critique of Greenstein's The Presidential Difference: Leadership Style from FDR to Clinton
In the novel that I, Megan Nunn read, The Presidential Difference: Leadership Style from FDR to Clinton, author Fred I. Greenstein offers new insights into the successes and failures in the Oval Office of eleven American Presidents. Greenstein is currently a professor of politics at Princeton University (“Princeton,” 2015). He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and he was also president of the International Society of Political Psychology. In 1953, he earned a BA from Antioch College and a PhD from Yale University in 1960 (“Princeton” 2015). Other novels that Greenstein has written include Children and Politics, Personality and Politics, The Hidden Hand Presidency: Eisenhower as Leader, How Presidents Test Reality, The Presidential Leadership Style from FDR to Barack Obama, and Inventing the Job of President: Leadership…show more content… The Presidential Difference: Leadership Style from FDR to Barack Obama is written in the same format and on the same topics as The Presidential Difference: Leadership Style from FDR to Clinton. It starts off with an introduction to the presidential difference, just as he did in the book I read. He goes through the same modern presidents listed in my book, The Presidential Difference. Then he adds a chapter about George W. Bush and the politics of agenda control and the breakthrough of Barak Obama (Google Books 2015). These chapters are then followed by a final chapter on lessons from the modern presidency, as he did in his other book. He also includes the background on the presidents, notes and further reading (Google Books 2015). In the book The Presidential Difference: Leadership Style from FDR to Barack Obama, he also focuses on the six qualities for the two new presidents he has added, just like he did for the other presidents (Google Books
