The classical ideal of the leader -- Plato -- Thomas Aquinas -- Conclusion : fictions and implicit theories -- The classical ideal in republics -- Aristotle -- Niccolo Machiavelli -- James Harrington -- The implicit theories of the classical republicans -- Toward a new implicit theory and a new...

The classical ideal of the leader. Plato. Thomas Aquinas. Conclusion : fictions and implicit theories -- The classical ideal in republics. Aristotle. Niccolo Machiavelli. James Harrington. The implicit theories of the classical republicans : toward a new implicit theory and a new fiction -- A...

Contributors address aspects of presidential leadership in essays on how presidential values are determined or constructed, how they are condoned and criticized, how they are packaged and conveyed, and how they are interpreted and acted upon. Includes scholars from communication, history, law,...