In James David Barber’s Passive Positive Presidents, he explores characters of Presidents during their term in office, focusing on his perceived idea of a ‘passive positive’ personality. Barber demonstrates this by stating that ‘’passive-positive types lives in a marketplace of affection’’ , suggesting that they have a ‘’hunger for love’’ , specifically, ‘’political love’’ . It is this ‘’impelling need to confirm one’s lovableness’’ that ultimately leads passive positive presidents to fail politically and personally.
In order to emphasise this, Barber cites Presidents Taft and Harding as examples to framework his theory whilst successfully proving that passive positive characters are embroiled in the ‘’superficial and fleeting’’ love that
