Overview
"Celebrated leadership expert and political scientist Gautam Mukunda provides a comprehensive, objective, and non-partisan method for answering the most important question in the world: is someone up to the job of president of the United States? In Picking Presidents, Gautam Mukunda sets his sights on presidential candidates, proposing a tested method to assess whether they will succeed or fail if they win the White House. Combining political science, psychology, organizational behavior, and economics, Picking Presidents will enable every American to cast an informed vote. In his 2012 book Indispensable, which all but predicted the Trump presidency, Mukunda explained how both the very best and very worst leaders are ""unfiltered""--outsiders who take power without the understanding or support of traditional elites. Picking Presidents provides deep analysis of filtered and unfiltered presidents alike, from failed haberdasher and skillful president Harry Truman, to the exceptionally well-qualified--and ultimately reviled--James Buchanan; from Andrew Johnson, who set civil rights back by a century, to Theodore Roosevelt, who evaded party opposition to transform American society. Picking Presidents lays out a clear framework that anyone can use to judge a candidate and answer the all-important question: are they up to the job?"
Full Product Details
Author: Gautam Mukunda ,
Graham Rowat
Publisher: Kalorama
Imprint: Kalorama
Edition: Library Edition
ISBN: 9798212394482
Publication Date: 06 December 2022
Audience:
General/trade
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General
Format: Audio
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Author Information
Gautam Mukunda is a research fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School's Center for Public Leadership, author of Indispensable: When Leaders Really Matter, and the host of NASDAQ's World Reimagined podcast. He was formerly an assistant professor at Harvard Business School and Distinguished Visiting Professor at Schwarzman College, Tsinghua University. Graham Rowat is an award-winning narrator who has appeared in numerous television shows and stage productions. He has had roles on Broadway in Meteor Shower, Sunset Boulevard, Mamma Mia, Guys and Dolls, LoveMusik, Dracula, and Beauty and the Beast, and his Off-Broadway credits include The Blue Flower (Second Stage) and The Boys in the Band (Transport Group). Nationally, he has appeared in productions of White Christmas and Les Miserables, and his regional credits include Arsenic and Old Lace, Constellations (Berkshire Theatre Festival), and A Funny Thing . . . Forum (Two River Theater, Williamstown Theatre Festival). His television credits include Elementary and The Good Wife.
