Description:
Using M. G. Hermann's Personality Assessment-at-a-Distance (PAD) profiling technique as well as exhaustive archival research and interviews with former advisers, the author develops a leadership style typology. He then compares his model's expectations against the actual policy record, using six foreign policy episodes.
Review Quotes: Preston provides an elaborate typology of presidential leadership styles and choices about the organization of policy advice.... His labels are carefully developed and defined, and the classification system as a whole is impressive in its complexity and integrative ambition.--R. A. Strong "Choice"