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The Clinton presidency faced a basic set of public questions at the
outset regarding its real intentions, strategies, and competence.
Would the administration be able to develop and implement policies
that were constructive in intent, fair in formulation, and
successful in result? Would President Clinton be able to govern as
successfully as he campaigned? Would there be a productive fit
between Clinton's leadership style and the needs of the public?
Additional questions arise about Clinton personally. Many admire
him; others distrust him. What realistic basis is there for either
view? This book explores these questions and develops an initial
appraisal of the Clinton presidency. The chapters herein are framed
by theories of political leadership and psychology. They draw on a
diverse body of theories, including psychological theories of
character and personality, cognitive psychology and communication
theory, theories of presidential leadership and performance, and
theories of public psychology. The goal is to examine the many
facets of leadership and governing that constitute the modern
presidency and to locate Bill Clinton's emerging presidency within
that framework. Bill Clinton is and likely will remain a
controversial president. One objective of this analysis is to
provide a clearer, more objective framework in which to evaluate
both the man and his approach to political leadership and executive
power and the consequences of his approach for public psychology
and policy.
The Clinton presidency faced a basic set of public questions at the
outset regarding its real intentions, strategies, and competence.
Would the administration be able to develop and implement policies
that were constructive in intent, fair in formulation, and
successful in result? Would President Clinton be able to govern as
successfully as he campaigned? Would there be a productive fit
between Clinton's leadership style and the needs of the public?
Additional questions arise about Clinton personally. Many admire
him; others distrust him. What realistic basis is there for either
view? This book explores these questions and develops an initial
appraisal of the Clinton presidency. The chapters herein are framed
by theories of political leadership and psychology. They draw on a
diverse body of theories, including psychological theories of
character and personality, cognitive psychology and communication
theory, theories of presidential leadership and performance, and
theories of public psychology. The goal is to examine the many
facets of leadership and governing that constitute the modern
presidency and to locate Bill Clinton's emerging presidency within
that framework. Bill Clinton is and likely will remain a
controversial president. One objective of this analysis is to
provide a clearer, more objective framework in which to evaluate
both the man and his approach to political leadership and executive
power and the consequences of his approach for public psychology
and policy.
The United States has never had a president quite like Donald J.
Trump. He violated every rule of conventional presidential
campaigns to win a race that almost no one, including at times he
himself, thought he would win. In so doing, Trump set off
cataclysmic shock waves across the country and world that have not
subsided and are unlikely to as long as he remains in office.
Critics of Trump abound, as do anonymously sourced speculations
about his motives, yet the real man behind this unprecedented
presidency remains largely unknown. In this innovative analysis,
American presidency scholar and trained psychoanalyst Stanley
Renshon reaches beyond partisan narrative to offer a serious and
substantive examination of Trump's real psychology and
controversial presidency. He analyzes Trump as a preemptive
president trying to become transformative by initiating a Politics
of American Restoration. Rigorously grounded in both political
science and psychology scholarship, The Real Psychology of the
Trump Presidency offers a unique and thoughtful perspective on our
controversial 45th president.
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