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UNINA9910451672903321 |
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Autore |
McDermott Rose <1962-> |
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Titolo |
Presidential leadership, illness, and decision making / / Rose McDermott [[electronic resource]] |
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Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2007 |
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ISBN |
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1-107-18544-0 |
9786611146429 |
0-511-36720-1 |
1-281-14642-0 |
0-511-36658-2 |
0-511-36595-0 |
0-511-57428-2 |
0-511-75617-8 |
0-511-36779-1 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (x, 334 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Presidents - United States - Health |
Presidents - Succession - United States |
Presidents - United States - Decision making |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015). |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Introduction -- Aging, illness and addiction -- The exacerbation of personality : Woodrow Wilson -- Leading while dying : Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1943-45 -- Addicted to power : John F. Kennedy --Bordering on sanity : Richard Nixon -- 25th amendment -- Presidential care. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Examines the impact of medical and psychological illness on foreign policy decision making. Illness provides specific, predictable, and recognizable shifts in attention, time perspective, cognitive capacity, judgment, and emotion, which systematically affect impaired leaders. In particular, this book discusses the ways in which processes related to aging, physical and psychological illness, and addiction influence decision making. This book provides detailed analysis of four cases |
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