Hidden-Hand Presidency

Fred I. Greenstein

• 26 juni 1994
• 9780801849015

Samenvatting:

In a new foreword to this edition, he discusses developments in the study of the Eisenhower presidency in the dozen years since publication of the first edition and examines the continuing significance of Eisenhower's legacy for the larger understanding of presidential leadership in modern America.



With a new Foreword that examines the continuing significance of the Eisenhower presidency, this title reveals that there was great political activity beneath the placid surface of the executive office under Eisenhower. "To read (this book) is to discover ...that everything you ever believed about Dwight Eisenhower as president of the United States is wrong".--"Economist".