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Basic Books, November Date: 1982. Hardcover. Good - Cash/Good. General use wear, surface and edges rubbed. Corners bumped and show wear. Pages show reader wear. DJ has edge tears and creasing. Stock photos may not look exactly like the book. 1982. Basic Books ISBN 0465029485 9780465029488 [US]

Basic Books, Date: 1982. Hardcover. Acceptable. Disclaimer:A readable copy. All pages are intact, and the cover is intact. Pages can include considerable notes-in pen or highlighter-but the notes cannot obscure the text. At ThriftBooks, our motto is: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed. 1982. Basic Books ISBN 0465029485 9780465029488 [US]

ISBN10: 0465029485, ISBN13: 9780465029488, [publisher: Harpercollins] Hardcover
[Houston, TX, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1982]

Pocket intact, Library distinctions FLEP, & text block edges, else content appears as unopened, unread and unblemished with fine brown colored, cloth covered boards with Fine DJ & Poly Protector displaying no significant surface/edge wear, as shown.Kirkus Review: Princeton political scientist Greenstein's laudatory study of Eisenhower's leadership style falls on ground recently made fallow by evidence of his general mental fitness (The Eisenhower Diaries), his canny use of Dulles (Eisenhower and the Cold War), and so on. It also benefits from a growing disposition to believe that "the nation's last two-term president"" must have been doing something right. Eisenhower, Greenstein wants us to recognize, was a contradiction: vague in press conferences, precise on paper; non-confrontational--yet politically astute; artlessly personable--or artfully winning; outwardly genial--inwardly hottempered. As a consequence of this duality, Greenstein proposes, he was "perfectly suited for adapting to the contradictory public expectations that the president serve both as un-controversial chief of state and potentially divisive prime minister." Then, moving into academic environs, Greenstein ascribes to Eisenhower five political strategies: "hidden-hand leadership; instrumental use of language; . . . refusing in public to 'engage in personalities' but basing actions on personality analyses; and the selective practice of delegation." That Eisenhower did these sorts of things, successfully ...

Basic Books, Date: 1982-11-04. Hardcover. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! 1982. Basic Books ISBN 0465029485 9780465029488 [US]