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9780700610181

Icons of Democracy

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  • ISBN13:

    9780700610181

  • ISBN10:

    0700610189

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2000-04-01
  • Publisher: Univ Pr of Kansas

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Summary

In an era when American leadership "I seems sunk in petty power struggles and shallow media spectacles, some of our icons have much to teach us about the forms of leadership that can still speak to the democratic possibilities of the American people", writes Bruce Miroff. In Icons of Democracy, Miroff looks at how nine American leaders have either successfully encouraged or undermined citizens' participatory role in their democracy and helps us rediscover what leadership has meant in the past and how it can reinvigorate public life today.

In a blend of history, biography, political science, and political theory, Miroff offers examples of the finest democratic leadership as well as cautionary tales of prominent leaders whose styles were essentially aristocratic. His study examines John Adams, Abraham Lincoln, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Eugene V. Debs, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Martin Luther King, Jr., as leaders who embodied or advanced democratic ideals. He also presents iconoclastic analyses of Alexander Hamilton, Theodore Roosevelt, and John F. Kennedy, in wh

Author Biography

Bruce Miroff is chair of the political science department at the State University of New York at Albany.

Table of Contents

Preface to the New Edition ix
Introduction 1(10)
The Aristocratic Statesman and the Constitution of American Capitalism
11(39)
Alexander Hamilton
Merit, Fame, and Political Leadership
50(33)
John Adams
Democratic Leadership and the Tribe of the Eagle
83(42)
Abraham Lincoln
Dissenting Leadership and Feminist Vision
125(33)
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Heroic Leadership and Masculine Spectacle
158(42)
Theodore Roosevelt
Dissenting Leadership and Democratic Dignity
200(32)
Eugene V. Debs
Democratic Leadership and the Modern State
232(41)
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Heroic Leadership for a Television Age
273(35)
John F. Kennedy
Dissenting Leadership and Democratic Redemption
308(39)
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Democracy and Leadership in America
347(14)
Notes 361(50)
Index 411

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