Incorporating U.S. presidents from Taft to Bush, this volume uses research-based political psychology, history,
and biography to provide a means of determining the performance of candidates as president.
Includes predictions actually written and published before the person served: Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan and
Bush -- and analysis of how predictions work.
Analyzes the role of journalism and how it succeeds and fails in its objective to provide the necessary information
about the candidates.
Shows how personally healthy presidents can still present serious problems to the government.
Analyzes anti-rational U.S. politics via the modern presidents and what needs to be done about it.
Table of Contents
I. PREDICTING PRESIDENTS.
1. Presidential Character and How to Foresee It.
II. THE CONTRADICTIONS OF POWER.
2. Three Tragic Tales.
3. The Active-Negative Presidents.
4. The Origins of Presidential Compulsion.
5. Richard Nixon: Winning Tragedy.
III. OF LOVE AND POLITICAL DUTY.
6. The Passive-Negative Presidents.
7. The Passive-Positive Presidents.
8. Reagan Wrecks Reality.
IV. CONGRUENCE IN CHARACTER.
9. Franklin D. Roosevelt and Active-Positive Affection.
10 Harry S. Truman and Active-Positive Combat.
11. John F. Kennedy and Active-Positive Commitment.
12. The Crucial Ford Transition.
V. BEYOND CHARACTER.
13. President Carter and Negotiation.
14. President Bush and Worldview.
