Presidential Leadership and the Creation of the American Era

ISBN-10: 0691158363
ISBN-13: 9780691158365
Category: Executive power
Language: English
Published: 2013
Author: Joseph S. Nye

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OThis timely book examines the impact of presidential leadership on the emergence and endurance of American global primacy. Nye is judicious, makes a plausible argument about each president he considers, and cuts through confusion and partisanship . . . "--John M. Owen IV, author of "The Clash of Ideas in World Politics."

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Presidential Leadership and the Creation of the American Era
- 2014-08-31
- 200 pages
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- Princeton University Press
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