Focuses on presidential leadership and foreign relations.

Table of Contents:

Preface, Kenneth W. Thompson; Introduction, Kenneth W. Thompson; John F. Kennedy: The Man and the Leader, Charles Bartlett; Richard M. Nixon: A Balance Sheet on his Leadership, Maurice Stans; Cabinet Government: An Alternative for Organizing Policymaking, Griffin Bell; The President as Communicator: John F. Kennedy on Civil Rights, Burke Marshall; European-American Relations and the American Presidency: A German Perspective, Cornelius Sommer; Presidential Transitions and the Handling of Foreign Policy Crises: The Iranian Hostage Crisis from Carter to Reagan; Concluding Observations, Kenneth Thompson.