Icons of democracy : American leaders as heroes, aristocrats, dissenters, and democrats /
The most profound and disturbing examination of the dangers and possibilities of democratic leadership since Richard Hofstadter's classic, The American Political Tradition, this book traces a fundamental tension between leadership and popular democracy that has animated American life from the R...
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New York, NY :
Basic Books,
1993.
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Table of Contents:
- Alexander Hamilton: The aristocratic statesman and the constitution of American capitalism
- John Adams: merit, fame and political leadership
- Abraham Lincoln: democratic leadership and the tribe of the eagle
- Elizabeth Cady Stanton: dissenting leadership and feminist vision
- Theodore Roosevelt: heroic leadership and masculine spectacle
- Eugene V. Debs: dissenting leadership and democratic dignity
- Franklin D. Roosevelt: Democratic leadership and the modern state
- John F. Kennedy: heroic leadership for a television age
- Martin Luther King, Jr.: dissenting leadership and democratic redemption -Democracy and leadership in America.