Description
Ultimately, Taft's leadership represented a middle-ground position, one that faced serious challenges from both conservative as well as radical forces, particularly the latter. While embodying some features of the modern presidency, Taft's model also represented a partial challenge to, and critique of, modern presidential leadership. Korzi reveals that Taft was considerably more modern in his leadership aspirations than previously thought and that his shift to traditionalism, or conservativism, only emerged with the threat of a third Roosevelt term on the horizon.
Presidential Leadership at the Crossroads makes an important contribution to our understanding of presidents and their leadership. Taft's model is particularly relevant today, given the prominence of the modern presidency and its values and expectations. Taft's moderate, middle-way position provides a foundation for critiquing the excesses of the modern presidency, while offering a vision for strong, if disciplined, presidential leadership.
About the Author
Michael J. Korzi is professor and chair of political science at Towson University in Maryland. He is also the author of A Seat of Popular Leadership: The Presidency, Political Parties, and Democratic Government and Presidential Term Limits in American History: Power, Principles, & Politics, winner of the 2012 Richard E. Neustadt Book Award by the American Political Science Association.
Book Information
ISBN 9781623499730
Author Michael J. Korzi
Format Hardback
Page Count 289
Imprint Texas A & M University Press
Publisher Texas A & M University Press
Weight(grams) 550g