6 June 2013
Presidential Leadership and the Creation of the American Era
In this audio presentation, Joseph Nye, who is a University Distinguished Service Professor at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, focuses his attention on a general question -- do the individual attributes and performance of a leader matter or is he or she ultimately a slave to the structural and more impersonal forces of history? Nye then takes this familiar question and applies it to the United States. Indeed, did it matter who was president in the US during the 20th century or would it have become the most powerful nation on Earth regardless of who was in office?
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