The Values of Presidential Leadership (eBook)

Terry L. Price is Professor of Leadership Studies and Senior Associate Dean of Academic Affairs at the Jepson School of Leadership Studies at the University of Richmond. He has degrees in philosophy, politics, and psychology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the University of Oxford, and he has completed his doctorate in philosophy at the University of Arizona. His work has been published in outlets such as the Encyclopedia of Leadership, Journal of Political Philosophy, and Leadership Quarterly. He is author of Understanding Ethical Failures in Leadership on Cambridge University Press and co-editor of the three-volume reference set The International Library of Leadership.

Introduction - Terry L. Price, J. Thomas Wren PART I: GOD AND COUNTRY Lincoln, Religion, and Presidential Leadership - Michael Nelson Patriotic Leadership - A. John Simmons PART II: COMMUNICATING VALUES Rhetorical Leadership and the Presidency: A Situational Taxonomy - Martin Medhurst Changing Their Minds? The Limits of Presidential Persuasion— George C. Edwards III PART III: COLLECTIVE LEADERSHIP A Tale of Two Bushes: Standing Alone vs. Standing Together - James MacGregor Burns Presidential Leadership and Advice about Going to War— James P. Pfiffner PART IV: PRESIDENTIAL WRONGDOING Grant 'Blinked': Appraising Presidential Leadership - George R. Goethals and Matthew B. Kugler Should Presidents Obey the Law? (And What's 'The Law' Anyway?) - Frederick Schauer Presidential Dirty Hands - Judith Lichtenberg Conclusion - J. Thomas Wren, Terry L. Price