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The good ruler : from Herbert Hoover to Richard Nixon

Print Book, English, c1988
Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick, N.J., c1988
History
x, 202 p. : ill., ports. ; 22 cm.
9780813512822, 9780813513522, 0813512824, 0813513529
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List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Preface Introductory Fable: What If? 1 The Inspired Presidency 2 Hoover, Roosevelt, and the Great Depression 3 Lessons of the Master 4 Roosevelt and the Structure of Politics 5 A Problem of Authority 6 Moment of Certainty: 1953-1960 7 Moment of Certainty: 1961-1963 8 "Let us Reason Together" 9 Nixon and the Watergate Scandal Conclusion Conclusion Essay on Sources and Methods Index