Personality, character, and leadership in the White House

"Personality, Character, and Leadership in the White House is the first book-length work to present scientific personality evaluations of the American presidents. This benchmark work improves our understanding of the personal qualities that made great presidents in the past and will produce successful leaders in the future." "Dr. Steven Rubenzer and Dr. Thomas Faschingbauer asked 120 experts, including biographers, historians, presidential advisers, and other knowledge-able sources, to rate the presidents by filling out a standardized personality test. For each president that fell within their area of expertise, the evaluators completed a 592-item questionnaire regarding personality, intelligence, and behavior. From the results, the authors identify nine traits related to presidential success, examine how the presidents' personalities affected their job performance, and list presidents' scores on the major dimensions of personality and the nine traits of a "Leadership Profile." Rubenzer and Faschingbauer provide insights about every American president and profile twenty-one of them in detail, including all post-World War II presidents and all of the presidents widely considered to have been the best."--BOOK JACKET.