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Summary: The American Leadership Tradition: The Inevitable Impact of
Review: This excellent book clearly demonstrates, through historical documents and events, that poor public policy results when Presidents attempt to separate their private lives from their public lives. Compartmentalization of poor moral and ethical behavior and the development of good public policy do not mix.
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Summary: Conservatives will love it and liberals hate it.
Review: This is one of the rare portaits of American leadership from a Christian World View. Conservatives, especially religous conservatives with a Reformed understanding will love it. Liberals will hate it because it does not confirm their world view assumptions. The chapter on Abraham Lincoln is also a must read for civil war buffs. It gives truth where others perpetuate myth. The chapters on Andrew Jackson, Grover Cleveland, and Teddy Roosevelt are useful contrasts to today's Democrat and Republican surrenders to big government vs. limited government and emotional and sentimental appeal vs truth, logic and real fairness. The chapter on Kennedy is fair, but alarming. Only the chapter on Bill Clinton is a bit of a let down. It is must reading for Conservatives of all types. I am buying more copies to give to my family and friends.Mike Scruggs, Birmingham, Alabama
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