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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... tried in many ways to show that he still had the common touch . He learned to play the fiddle , but suspicion about his political music - making remained . Before John Randolph of Virginia died in 1833 , he said he wanted to be buried ...
... tried in many ways to show that he still had the common touch . He learned to play the fiddle , but suspicion about his political music - making remained . Before John Randolph of Virginia died in 1833 , he said he wanted to be buried ...
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... tried to help win the peace by aiming his oratorical guns once again at the left . He spoke frequently in 1917 about how America's great enemy was socialism , not because that movement legitimately could help the poor but because it ...
... tried to help win the peace by aiming his oratorical guns once again at the left . He spoke frequently in 1917 about how America's great enemy was socialism , not because that movement legitimately could help the poor but because it ...
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... tried . When Roosevelt urged him to carry on his adultery with movie star Gloria Swanson more discreetly , Kennedy shot back , “ Not until you get rid of Missy LeHand . ” Roo- sevelt had his revenge many years later when he recalled ...
... tried . When Roosevelt urged him to carry on his adultery with movie star Gloria Swanson more discreetly , Kennedy shot back , “ Not until you get rid of Missy LeHand . ” Roo- sevelt had his revenge many years later when he recalled ...
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George Washington | 3 |
Thomas Jefferson | 23 |
Andrew Jackson | 45 |
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