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The nature of the threats facing America today has drastically
reduced the margin for error in senior political appointments. In
Only the Most Able, Stephen M. Duncan draws on a lifetime of
military, public service, executive, and legal experience to
critique the political appointment process, focusing on departments
that deal with national security-the Department of Defense and the
Department of Homeland Security. He looks at how the current
methods for making appointments put people in positions for which
they are not qualified and not prepared. Rather, he argues,
appointments should be made on the basis of one's qualifications
and merits-those who lead our military should be people with
military experience, and those who must make executive decisions
should be people who have served and excelled in an executive
capacity. Identifying the successful traits of leaders such as
Winston Churchill, General George Marshall, nationally-known
business executives, and others, Duncan argues with unusual insight
and candor why the quality and performance of senior political
appointees who are charged even in part with the nation's security,
must be improved, and offers specific recommendations on how this
can be accomplished. This timely book will appeal to Americans of
all political persuasions, as well as those with particular
interests in political and military history.
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