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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Page 17
... seemed that only confidence in Washington held things together . So much was his leadership prized , and so much was it understood that the safety of the young republic depended upon the self - restraint of those in power , that ...
... seemed that only confidence in Washington held things together . So much was his leadership prized , and so much was it understood that the safety of the young republic depended upon the self - restraint of those in power , that ...
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... seemed to be one of keeping the millennium at arm's length if eradication of slavery meant having blacks next door . During the war northern mag- azines like the Western Christian Advocate and popular ministers like Lyman Abbott assured ...
... seemed to be one of keeping the millennium at arm's length if eradication of slavery meant having blacks next door . During the war northern mag- azines like the Western Christian Advocate and popular ministers like Lyman Abbott assured ...
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... seemed to do everything - walk , talk , think — at a pace much faster than others . Reporters called him " the ... seemed to be but just begun , and when the years seemed so bright before her then , by a strange and terrible fate , death ...
... seemed to do everything - walk , talk , think — at a pace much faster than others . Reporters called him " the ... seemed to be but just begun , and when the years seemed so bright before her then , by a strange and terrible fate , death ...
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George Washington | 3 |
Thomas Jefferson | 23 |
Andrew Jackson | 45 |
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