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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• SIMEONE, JAMES

Titel

Book Review: Presidents and the Dissolution of the Union: Leadership Style from Polk to Lincoln

Ist Teil von

• Journal of American Studies, 2014, Vol.48 (3), p.883-884

Ort / Verlag

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press

Erscheinungsjahr

2014

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Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• (ProQuest: ... denotes non-US-ASCII text omitted.) Fred I. Greenstein , with Dale Anderson , Presidents and the Dissolution of the Union: Leadership Style from Polk to Lincoln (Princeton : Princeton University Press , 2013, £16.95). Regimes construct tests of legitimacy which have the potential to turn presidential power into authority. [...]regimes decay when interests shift fundamentally or when the public philosophy which justifies government action (or inaction) loses the capacity to compel support.