The American Leadership Tradition: Moral Vision from Washington to ClintonIn the first modern systematic examination of the bond between morals and politics, Marvin Olasky examines the lives and careers of thirteen noted American leaders, including the great, the good, and the deeply flawed, from George Washington, Henry Clay, and Booker T. Washington to Woodrow Wilson, John F. Kennedy, and Bill Clinton. Olasky looks closely at the connections between religion, sexual practices, and political decisions, examining the repeated connections between private character and public action. He explains how so-called "compartmentalization" proved to be as impossible for Lincoln as for Woodrow Wilson. |
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... leaders wrestled with spiritual or personal problems . Hofstadter did not provide an early warning system . His rock was economics , and on that rock he built his analysis , as did most of his col- leagues . " My generation , " he wrote ...
... leaders wrestled with spiritual or personal problems . Hofstadter did not provide an early warning system . His rock was economics , and on that rock he built his analysis , as did most of his col- leagues . " My generation , " he wrote ...
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... leaders from a period when newspapers often treated news from the capital as insignificant . We then move to Act Two , five chapters on leaders from the 1880s through the 1960s : Grover Cleveland , Theodore Roosevelt , Woodrow Wilson ...
... leaders from a period when newspapers often treated news from the capital as insignificant . We then move to Act Two , five chapters on leaders from the 1880s through the 1960s : Grover Cleveland , Theodore Roosevelt , Woodrow Wilson ...
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... leaders who break a large vow to one per- son find it easy to break relatively small vows to millions . It is also vital to scrutinize a candidate's religious beliefs and the way he has demonstrated or undermined those beliefs through ...
... leaders who break a large vow to one per- son find it easy to break relatively small vows to millions . It is also vital to scrutinize a candidate's religious beliefs and the way he has demonstrated or undermined those beliefs through ...
Contents
George Washington | 3 |
Thomas Jefferson | 23 |
Andrew Jackson | 45 |
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