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A Noble Calling Character and the George H. W. Bush Presidency
William Levantrosser, Rosanna Perotti
ISBN: 0-313-31683-X
ISBN-13: 978-0-313-31683-8
392 pages
Praeger Publishers
Publication: 4/30/2004
List Price: $138.95 (UK Sterling Price: £95.95)
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Media Type: Hardcover
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Description: This book presents essays by cabinet members, world leaders, and scholars examining the formation of President George H. W. Bush's character and the factors that influenced his leadership as a legislator, a diplomat, and an American president.

In many ways, the presidency of George H. W. Bush was a transitional presidency. The end of the Cold War ushered in a new world with the United States as the dominant power. While many might credit his predecessor, Ronald Reagan, as the one who brought an end to the conflict with the former Soviet Union, George H. W. Bush was an associate president, serving as Vice President during Reagan's two terms. While supporting the work of the Reagan administration and, therefore, providing some continuity with it, President Bush had a different style of leadership and new priorities to establish.

This volume of essays by cabinet members, world leaders, and scholars examine the formation of Bush's character and the factors that influenced his leadership as a legislator, a diplomat, and an American president. His family background, his military service, his life experience before going into public life, and the various positions in government service are all reviewed by friends, colleagues, and objective observers. The end result is the most detailed examination ever attempted of Bush's character and its impact on his career.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction by Rosanna Perotti
    Acknowledgments
    Volume Introduction by William F. Levantrosser
    Molding Presidential Character: The Bush Apprenticeship
    George Bush: Influence of the Family on his Values by Thomas Patrick Melady
    The Bush Legacy: First Evaluations
    The Moral Leadership of George Bush by Robert B. Charles
    George Bush and the Finitude of Presidential Power by Michael A. Genovese
    An Evaluation of the Presidency of George Bush by David Mervin
    The Limits of Leadership: The Global Context
    Not Doing Too Badly for Guys Who Have No Vision Whatsoever and Operate Only on Instinct: Foreign Policy Decision Making Under the Bush Administration by Charles-Philippe David
    George Bush and the United Nations by Seymour Maxwell Finger
    George Bush and the United Nations: A Prudent Journey from Realism to Moralism, 1971-1993 by Jerry Pubantz
    Ending the Cold War
    The "Operational Code" of the Bush Administration: Leadership Perceptions and Foreign Policy-Making by Michael F. Cairo
    President Bush and the Collapse of Communist Rule in Poland: The Search for Policy in 1989-1990 by Minton F. Goldman
    The President as Straight Man: Humor of the Times
    Presidential Humor: The Remakings and Remarkings of President George Bush by Jan J. Younger
    Being Remembered: The Bush Presidential Library
    Index
    About the Contributors
About the Author: WILLIAM LEVANTROSSER is Professor Emeritus of Political Science at Hofstra University. He has published extensively on the American presidency. Among his earlier publications are Congress and the Citizen-Soldier and Harry S. Truman: The Man from Independence (Greenwood Press, 1986).

ROSANNA PEROTTI is Associate Professor of Political Science at Hofstra University. She has published on U.S. immigration policy in International Migration Review and The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Sciences. She also is co-editor, with Meena Bose, of From Cold War to New World Order: The Foreign Policy of George H. W. Bush (Greenwood Press, 2003).
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