LDST 352 SPRING 2016

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1 LDST 352 SPRING 2016 PRESIDENTIAL LEADERSHIP Professor: George R. Goethals, Jepson Hall Room Telephone: Introduction This course examines selected theories and research on presidential leadership and presidential campaigning, and the lives and administrations of selected presidents. We consider an eclectic set of materials contributed by psychologists, political scientists, historians, communication scholars, and journalists. Our goal is to review a number of varied approaches to understanding presidential leadership and applying those treatments to understanding the careers of specific presidents. Below is a calendar listing topics and readings for each day the class meets. The assigned books for the course are The Presidential Character by James David Barber; His Excellency: George Washington by Joseph J. Ellis; Eyewitness to Power by David Gergen; Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln by Doris Kearns Goodwin; The Presidential Difference and Inventing the Job of President by Fred I. Greenstein; George W. Bush and the Redemptive Dream by Dan P. McAdams; Abraham Lincoln by James M. McPherson; Where They Stand by Robert W. Merry; and The Politics Presidents Make by Stephen Skowronek. Assigned articles or chapters are posted on Course Reserves, and the Course Reserve number is listed next to the readings (e.g., CR1). Course Requirements 1. All students are expected to attend class and to come fully prepared to participate in discussion. 2. Each week you should me brief about 150 words questions or comments on either Tuesday s or Thursday s reading, depending on whether you are assigned an odd or an even number. Be sure to include a question that you would like us to discuss in class. The comments are due by noon on the day of the class. I will respond to them, ordinarily within a day or two. 3. There will be an exam on the material from the first part of the course on Thursday, February There will be an exam on the material from the second part of the course on Tuesday, April 19. Part of that exam will ask you to discuss the president or presidents about whom you are writing your paper (see 5. below).

2 2 5. A paper of approximately 15 pages is due on Thursday April 28 at 5:00 PM. We will schedule meetings shortly after spring vacation for you to discuss your paper with me. You may write the paper by yourself or team up with one other person. The paper should discuss a single presidency or a comparison of two presidencies, based on reading that we will plan together. Those who do the paper in pairs must submit assessments of the relative contributions of each member of the pair. 6. The class is going to visit Mount Vernon, George Washington s home on the Potomac River, on Friday April 8. All students must take this trip. We leave on a bus at 9:00 AM and depart Mount Vernon at 3:00 PM. With any luck, we ll be back at UR by 5:00 PM. Lunch will be served at Mount Vernon. Your course grade will be based on each of the first five requirements above, weighed equally, and any relevant consideration from Mount Vernon. Class Schedule and Readings Tuesday, January 12 Introduction Thursday, January 14 Meet the Presidents Robert W. Merry (2012). Where They Stand: The American Presidents in the Eyes of Voters and Historians. New York: Simon & Schuster. Introduction, The Great White House Rating Game, pp. xiii-xxii; Chapter 6, The Stain of Failure, pp ; Chapter 9, Leaders of Destiny, pp Tuesday, January 19 (Odd numbers ) The Presidential Character, Part I Barber, J.D. (1992). The Presidential Character: Predicting Performance in the White House. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall. Chapter 1, Presidential character and how to foresee it, pp. 1-11; Chapter 9, Franklin D. Roosevelt and active-positive affection, pp Thursday, January 21 (Even numbers ) The Presidential Difference

3 3 Greenstein, F.I. (2006). Plumbing the presidential psyche: building on Neustadt and Barber. In L Berman (Ed.) The Art of Political Leadership. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, pp (CR16) Greenstein, F.I. (2009) Inventing the Job of President: Leadership Style from George Washington to Andrew Jackson. Chapter 1,The presidential difference in the early republic, pp. 1-8; Chapter 2, The foundational presidency of George Washington, pp Greenstein, F.I. (2009) The Presidential Difference: Leadership Style from FDR to Barack Obama. Chapter 1, The presidential difference, pp. 1-9; Chapter 2, The Virtuosic leadership of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, pp ; Chapter 4, The Unexpected Eisenhower, pp ; Chapter 6, Lyndon Johnson and the Primacy of Politics, pp Bose, M. (2006) What makes a great president? Analysis of leadership qualities in Fred I. Greenstein s The Presidential Difference. In L Berman (Ed.) The Art of Political Leadership. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, pp (CR23) Tuesday, January 26 (Odd numbers ) FDR Smith, J.E. (2007), FDR. New York: Random House. Chapter 21, Four More Years, pp ; Chapter 22, Arsenal of Democracy, pp (CR2, CR3) Thursday, January 28 (Even numbers ) Personality and Presidential Greatness Simonton, D.K. (1986) Presidential personality: biographical use of the Gough Adjective Check List. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 51, (CR21) McCann, S.J.H. (1992). Alternative formulas to predict the greatness of U.S. presidents: personological, situational, and zeitgeist factors. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 62, (CR1)

4 4 Simonton, D.K. (2006). Presidential IQ, openness, intellectual brilliance and leadership: estimates and correlations for 42 U.S. Chief Executives. Political Psychology, 27, (CR18) Simonton, D.K. (2008). Presidential greatness and its socio-psychological significance: Individual or situation? Performance or attribution? In C.L. Hoyt, G. R. Goethals, & D.R. Forsyth (eds.) Leadership at the Crossroads: Volume 1, Leadership and Psychology. Westport, CT: Praeger. Pp (CR4) Tuesday, February 2 (Odd numbers ) The Politics Presidents Make Greenstein, F.I. (2009) Inventing the Job of President: Leadership Style from George Washington to Andrew Jackson. Chapter 8, Andrew Jackson: Force of Nature, pp Skowronek, S. (1997) The Politics Presidents Make: Leadership from John Adams to Bill Clinton. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. Chapter 3, Structure and Action, pp ; Chapter 5, Part I, Andrew Jackson s Reconstruction, pp Thursday, February 4 (Even numbers ) Richard Nixon, Part I Barber, J.D. (1992). The presidential character: predicting performance in the White House. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall. Chapter 5, Richard Nixon: Construction and Destruction, pp Greenstein, F.I. (2009) The presidential difference: leadership style from FDR to Barack Obama. Chapter 7, The Paradox of Richard Nixon, pp Tuesday, February 9 (Odd numbers ) Richard Nixon, Part II Gergen, David (2000) Eyewitness to Power: The Essence of Leadership, Nixon to Clinton, Chapter 1, The stuff of Shakespeare, pp ; Chapter 2, The Bright side, pp ; Chapter 3, Why he fell, pp Thursday, February 11 (Even numbers )

5 5 George Washington, Part I Ellis, J.J. (2004). His Excellency George Washington. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. Chapter 5, Introspective Interlude, pp ; Chapter 6, First in peace, pp Tuesday, February 16 (Odd numbers ) George Washington, Part II Ellis, J.J. (2004). His Excellency George Washington. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. Chapter 6, First in peace, pp ; Chapter 7, Testament, pp Thursday, February 18 (Even numbers ) Abraham Lincoln, Part I McPherson, J.D. (2009). Abraham Lincoln. New York: Oxford University Press. Goodwin, D.K. (2005). Team of rivals: the political genius of Abraham Lincoln. New York: Simon & Schuster, pp Tuesday, February 23 (Odd numbers ) Abraham Lincoln, Part II Goodwin, D.K. (2005). Team of rivals: the political genius of Abraham Lincoln. New York: Simon & Schuster, pp Thursday, February 25 Midterm Exam Tuesday, March 1 (Even numbers ) Harry Truman, Part I Greenstein, F.I. (2009) The presidential difference: leadership style from FDR to Barack Obama. Chapter 3, The uneven leadership of Harry S. Truman,

6 6 pp Goethals, G.R. (2015) Presidential Leadership and African Americans: An American Dilemma from Slavery to the White House. Routledge. Chapter 7, Harry Truman, pp (CR20) Thursday, March 3 (Odd numbers ) Harry Truman, Part II McCullough, D. (1992) Truman. New York: Simon & Schuster. Chapter 13, The Heat in the Kitchen, pp ; Chapter 14, Fighting Chance, pp (CR6, CR7) Beschloss, M. (2007) Presidential Courage. New York: Simon & Schuster. Chapter 25, No People Except the Hebrews, pp ; Chapter 26, How Could this Have Happened, pp ; Chapter 27, I Am Cyrus!, pp (CR12) SPRING BREAK, March 4-14 Tuesday, March 15 (Even numbers ) Dwight David Eisenhower Smith, J.E. Eisenhower in War and Peace. New York: Random House. Chapter 22, Dien Bien Phu, pp ; Chapter 26, Little Rock, pp (CR14,13) Thursday, March 17 (Odd numbers ) John F. Kennedy, Part I Greenstein, F.I. (2009) The Presidential Difference: Leadership Style from FDR to Barack Obama. Chapter 5, Coming to Terms with Kennedy, pp Jamieson, K.H. (1996). Packaging the Presidency: a History and Criticism of Presidential Campaign Advertising. New York: Oxford University Press. Chapter 4, 1960: Competence, Catholicity, and the candidates, pp (CR11)

7 7 Tuesday, March 22 (Even numbers ) John F. Kennedy, Part II Dallek, R. (2003) An Unfinished Life: John F. Kennedy, Boston: Little, Brown. Chapter 16, To the Brink and Back, pp ; Epilogue, pp (CR8, CR15) Thursday, March 24 (Odd numbers ) Lyndon B. Johnson, Part I Goethals, G.R. (2015) Presidential Leadership and African Americans: An American Dilemma from Slavery to the White House. Routledge. Chapter 8, Lyndon B. Johnson, pp (CR19) Tuesday, March 29 (Even numbers ) Lyndon B. Johnson, Part II Peters, C. (2010) Lyndon B. Johnson. New York: Times Books. Chapter 8, Escalation, pp ; Chapter 9, A Cultural Revolution, pp ; Chapter 10, Going Home, pp Thursday, March 31 (Odd numbers ) Ronald Reagan Greenstein, F.I. (2009) The Presidential Difference: Leadership Style from FDR to Barack Obama. Chapter 10. Ronald Reagan: the Innocent as Agent of Change, pp Gergen, David (2000) Eyewitness to Power: The Essence of Leadership, Nixon to Clinton. Chapter 5, The Natural, pp , Chapter 6, A Rooseveltian Style, pp ; Chapter 7, Secrets of the Great Communicator, pp Tuesday, April 5 (Even numbers ) George Herbert Walker Bush

8 8 Jon Meacham (2015) Destiny and Power: The American Odyssey of George Herbert Walker Bush. Chapter 37, This Will Not Stand, pp ; Chapter 38, Not Blood For Oil, pp ; Chapter 39, Read My Hips, pp ; Chapter 40,The Threat of Impeachment, pp ; Chapter 41, Nothing Like It Since Truman, pp ; Chapter 50, The Buck Stops There, pp ; Epilogue, I Don t Want to Miss Anything, pp Thursday, April 7 (Odd numbers ) Bill Clinton Greenstein, F.I. (2009) The Presidential Difference: Leadership Style from FDR to Barack Obama. Chapter 12, The undisciplined Bill Clinton, pp Gergen, David (2000) Eyewitness to Power: The Essence of Leadership, Nixon to Clinton, Chapter 8, Dreams and Disappointments, pp ; Chapter 9, Riding the Roller Coaster, pp ; Chapter 10, Assessing his Leadership, pp Tuesday, April 12 (Even numbers ) George W. Bush Jamieson, K.H & Waldman, P. (2003). The Press Effect: Politicians, Journalists, and the Stories that Shape the Political World. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Chapter 3, The Press as Amateur Psychologist, part II, pp (C10) Greenstein, F.I. (2009) The Presidential difference: Leadership Style from FDR to Barack Obama. Chapter 13, George W. Bush and the Politics of Agenda Control, McAdams, D.P. (2011). George W. Bush and the Redemptive Dream. New York: Oxford University Press. Introduction, Why Did President George W. Bush Invade Iraq?, pp. 3-14; Chapter One, The Actor s Traits, pp ; Chapter Two, Fathers and Sons, pp Thursday, April 14 Barack Obama and the Election of 2016

9 9 Greenstein, F.I. (2009) The Presidential Difference: Leadership Style from FDR to Barack Obama. Chapter 14, The Presidential Breakthrough of Barack Obama, pp Other reading to be determined. Tuesday, April 19 Exam 2 Thursday, April 21 Review and Conclusions

10 10 Jepson School of Leadership Studies Common Syllabus Insert Awarding of Credit To be successful in this course, a student should expect to devote hours each week, including class time and time spent on course-related activities. Disability Accommodations Students with a Disability Accommodation Notice should contact their instructors as early in the semester as possible to discuss arrangements for completing course assignments and exams. Honor System The Jepson School supports the provisions of the Honor System. The shortened version of the honor pledge is: I pledge that I have neither received nor given unauthorized assistance during the completion of this work. Religious Observance Students should notify their instructors within the first two weeks of classes if they will need accommodations for religious observance.