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EBOOK Elusive Victories:The American Presidency at War

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Wydawnictwo: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780199942817
EAN: AD0C9E3CEB
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Stron: 456
Data wydania: 2012
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On April 4, 1864, Abraham Lincoln made a shocking admission about his presidency        during the Civil War. "e;I claim not to have controlled events,"e; he wrote in a letter,        "e;but confess plainly that events have controlled me."e; Lincoln's words carry an        invaluable lesson for wartime presidents, writes Andrew J. Polsky in this seminal        book. As Polsky shows, when commanders-in-chief do try to control wartime events,        more often than not they fail utterly.In Elusive Victories, Polsky provides a        fascinating study of six wartime presidents, drawing larger lessons about the limits        of the power of the White House during armed conflict. He examines, in turn,        Lincoln, Woodrow Wilson, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon,        George W. Bush, and Barack Obama, showing how each gravely overestimated his power        as commander-in-chief. In each case, these presidents' resources did not match the        key challenges that recur from war to war. Both Lincoln and Johnson intervened in        military operations, giving orders to specific units; yet both struggled with the        rising unpopularity of their conflicts. Both Wilson and Bush entered hostilities        with idealistic agendas for the aftermath, yet found themselves helpless to enact        them. With insight and clarity, Polsky identifies overarching issues that will        inform current and future policymakers. The single most important dynamic, he        writes, is the erosion of a president's freedom of action. Each decision propels him        down a path from which he cannot turn back. When George W. Bush rejected the idea of        invading Iraq with 400,000 troops, he could not send such a force two years later as        the insurgency spread. In the final chapter, Polsky examines Barack Obama's options        in light of these conclusions, and considers how the experiences of the past might        inform the world we face now.Elusive Victories is the first book to provide a        comprehensive account of presidential leadership during wartime, highlighting the        key dangers that presidents have ignored at their peril.

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