The warrior and the president:
two case studies in leadership
Gates Bldg. HP Auditorium
Dwight Eisenhower was a supremely successful military leader and a considerably less successful president. how to account for those different performances? This presentation will examine Eisenhower's own conception of the elements of leadership, and his leadership style, as measured against some highly suggestive research findings from the field of social psychology about the nature of leadership .
Reading:
"Dwight D. Eisenhower as Warrior and President," in
David M. Kennedy and Michael Parrish, Eds., Power and
Resposibility: Case Studies in American Leadership
(Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1986)
Stanford Faculty Bio
Donald J. McLachlan Professor of American History. A.B., Stanford University; Ph.D., Yale University. Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Dean's Award for Distinguished Teaching, 1988. 1999 Pulitzer Prize.