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The Missing Link
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Effective Presidency
The second edition of this classic work adds a new chapter on Barack Obama and updates coverage of the end of the George W. Bush administration. Presidential scholar Erwin C. Hargrove extends his analytical framework of presidential effectiveness to show how Obama combines eventful leadership with pragmatism to move the nation forward in an intensely polarized partisan environment. Features of the textbook: Uses an analytical framework to assess historical context, personal skills and attributes, and the ability to "make a difference" in each of ten presidencies. Four presidents are judged to be "event-making" leaders: Johnson, Nixon, Reagan, and George W. Bush. Six presidents are assessed as "eventful" leaders: JFK, Ford, Carter, George H. W. Bush, Clinton, and Obama. As much a study of leadership as an analysis of ten presidencies, this book adds to our understanding in political science, history, and public administration and management.
Danger in Paris
In 1988, Vanderbilt University professor John Page and his wife, Julie, move to Paris to accept a one-year teaching appointment. He decides to take advantage of his European location and do some research into his mother’s life in Paris in the 1920s. He meets an old friend of his mother’s, who refers him to some of their French circle. Excited to find so many good clues into an enduring family mystery, he and Julie meet several of his mother’s friends in Paris. Then he receives a letter that changes everything: “If you know what is good for you, you will stay away and stop any attempt to dig up the past.” Spooked but ultimately undaunted, their investigation takes them deeper into his family’s history. They then hear the heartbreaking news that their new friend Claude Picard has been murdered in his Paris apartment. Inspector Jules Lavin of the Surete takes charge of the case. Despite the increased scrutiny, an attempt is made on the life of Picard’s daughter Lily. John risks his life in Algiers as part of the investigation.
The Hedgehog and the Fox
Erwin Hargrove compares the leadership styles of two English politicians, Harold Macmillan and Margaret Thatcher. Through the same lens he compares six American presidents. And in between, Hargrove discusses the leadership of Edmond Burke, Abraham Lincoln and Shakespeare's English Kings.
A Professor's Journey
Mark Twain wrote that one of his books was "mostly true." That is so with this book of sketches from the life of Erwin Hargrove, professor of political science. This is a lightly rendered memoir of his academic career at Brown and Vanderbilt Universities from 1960 to 2000. Though some of the details have been enhanced, this book is an accurate account of Dr. Hargove's experience rising through the ranks of academia in the latter half of the 20th century.
American Journeys
This is a story of three men and their lives from 1930 to 2000. They are respectively a psychiatrist, a historian, and a journalist. They work respectively at Cornell Medical School, Brown University, and the Baltimore Sun. They pursue their professions in times of major insitutional changes. Their five wives also tell their stories. This is, in part, a story of a generation.
Jimmy Carter as President
Jimmy Carter was, according to Erwin Hargrove, the first modern Democratic president to be substantially ahead of the party coalition. Concerned with issues of the future -- inflation, the need for tax reform, energy shortages -- Carter anticipated many questions that are only now being addressed, nearly a decade after his troubled tenure in office.The years 1976 to 1980 were difficult years for a Democrat to be president -- especially difficult for a southern moderate who viewed the world in Wilsonian terms and who was politically unaligned, essentially an outsider in his party and in Washington. But Carter's inability to read or manipulate the political scene was not the only problem to be...
Leadership and Innovation
Jameson W. Doig and Erwin C. Hargrove outline a perspective on leadership in government that emphasizes entrepreneurship. They show how government executives' ability to set goals, generate support inside and outside the bureaucracy, and implement innovative ideas-- even at risk to their own careers-- can have a significant impact on their organizations and on society. In this abridged edition, biographical studies of David Lilienthal, Hyman Rickover, James Webb, Nancy Hanks, Robert McNamara, Wilbur Cohen, Robert Ball, and Austin Tobin illustrate a variety of skills and strategies used by effective executives. Doig and Hargrove describe their styles as ranging from "rhetorical leaders" to "entrepreneurial administrators." Yet these diverse leaders share some important traits, including a capacity to see historical opportunity, the ability to mobilize constituencies, and a desire to "make a difference."
The Woman President
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