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Author Kamarck, Elaine C., author.

Title Why presidents fail : and how they can succeed again / Elaine Kamarck.

Publication Info. Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, [2016]

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Description 1 online resource
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents The helicopters in the desert -- Ignoring the flashing lights -- We look like a third world country -- Space walks and crashing websites -- The buck doesn't stop here after all -- The voters guide to picking presidents.
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Summary Failure should not be an option in the presidency, but for too long it has been the norm. From the botched attempt to rescue the U.S. diplomats held hostage by Iran in 1980 under President Jimmy Carter and the missed intelligence on Al Qaeda before 9-11 under George W. Bush to, most recently, the computer meltdown that marked the arrival of health care reform under Barack Obama, the American presidency has been a profile in failure. In Why Presidents Fail and How They Can Succeed Again, Elaine Kamarck surveys these and other recent presidential failures to understand why Americans have lost fa.
Subject Presidents -- United States.
Political leadership -- United States.
Political planning -- United States.
Executive power -- United States.
Executive departments -- United States -- Management.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- American Government -- Executive Branch.
Executive departments -- Management. (OCoLC)fst00917828
Executive power. (OCoLC)fst00917857
Political leadership. (OCoLC)fst01069363
Political planning. (OCoLC)fst01069460
Presidents. (OCoLC)fst01075723
United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Other Form: Print version: Kamarck, Elaine Ciulla. Why presidents fail. Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, [2016] 9780815727781 (DLC) 2016017463
ISBN 9780815727798 (electronic book)
0815727798 (electronic book)
9780815727804 (electronic book)
0815727801 (electronic book)
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