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Informationen zum Autor Stanley A. Renshon, a certified psychoanalyst, is professor of political science at the City University of New York and coordinator of the Interdisciplinary Program in the Psychology of Social and Political Behavior in the university's Graduate Center. His seven books include High Hopes: The Clinton Presidency and the Politics of Ambition (New York University Press, 1996), which won the American Political Science Association's Richard E. Neustadt Award for best book on the presidency. Klappentext The first examination of the role of national political leaders in maintaining or dissipating America's national identity. Zusammenfassung With enormous numbers of new immigrants! America is becoming dramatically more diverse racially! culturally! and ethnically. This title discusses the role of national leadership! especially the presidency! at a time when a fragmented and dysfunctional national identity has become a real possibility.
