How important is presidential personality and leadership style in
foreign policy decisions? To answer this question, Thomas Preston
takes readers inside the Bush administration's decision-making
process and use of intelligence to better understand how
administration officials justified the Iraq War-and how they sought
to avoid blame for the consequences of their actions. Based on
extensive interviews with key Bush administration officials,
Preston offers students of American foreign policy, presidential
decision making, the dynamics of blame avoidance, and future
practitioners with an in depth examination of how presidential
personality and leadership style impacted Bush's central foreign
policy failure. In addition, Preston looks critically at the
oft-cited comparisons of Iraq to Lyndon Johnson's leadership during
the Vietnam War, exploring where the analogy fits and a number of
important differences. He shows how both presidents' styles
exacerbated their managerial weaknesses in these cases and the
limits of blame avoidance strategies. The book provides a
cautionary tale for future leaders to consider more carefully the
long-term consequences of satisfying their short term policy
desires by lifting the lid to any new Pandora's trap.
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