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The Post-Heroic Presidency - Leveraged Leadership in an Age of Limits (Hardcover, 2nd edition)
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The Post-Heroic Presidency - Leveraged Leadership in an Age of Limits (Hardcover, 2nd edition)
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This book examines how presidents from Nixon to Obama have faced
the challenges of global leadership in a dramatically changing
world—one with more limited resources and an increasing number of
threatening challengers. The immediate post-World War II era was
undeniably a period of American power and influence. Even during
the Cold War, the United States was the leader of the West,
exerting wide-ranging power internationally. But beginning with the
Vietnam War, America began experiencing a series of setbacks and
challenges to its power. The Post-Heroic Presidency: Leveraged
Leadership in an Age of Limits examines how U.S. presidents have
attempted to reverse or contend with this new era of limited power
in which presidential leadership is hamstrung due to an
increasingly globalized and interdependent world—one where power
is more diffuse and the system of checks and balances bind a
president in an age of hyper-partisanship. The book examines
presidents of the 20th and 21st centuries, explaining how the first
U.S. president to confront this new age was Richard Nixon,
who—along with Henry Kissinger—developed a sophisticated
approach to deal with the recalibration of American power. It
documents how other recent presidents have either tried to make
peace with limited power (Jimmy Carter), reverse the decline
(Ronald Reagan), ignore the implications of limits (George W.
Bush), or find ways to lead that were less ambitious, more prudent,
and less unilateral (George H.W. Bush, Bill Clinton, and Barack
Obama). In the cases of Clinton and Obama, this shift to using
"soft power," persuasion, and multilateralism earned them criticism
that they are "weak," thereby undermining their efforts to
lead—both at home and abroad.
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