Icons of Democracy

In an era when American leadership "I seems sunk in petty power struggles and shallow media spectacles, some of our icons have much to teach us about the forms of leadership that can still speak to the democratic possibilities of the American people", writes Bruce Miroff. In Icons of Democracy, Miroff looks at how nine American leaders have either successfully encouraged or undermined citizens' participatory role in their democracy and helps us rediscover what leadership has meant in the past and how it can reinvigorate public life today.

In a blend of history, biography, political science, and political theory, Miroff offers examples of the finest democratic leadership as well as cautionary tales of prominent leaders whose styles were essentially aristocratic. His study examines John Adams, Abraham Lincoln, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Eugene V. Debs, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Martin Luther King, Jr., as leaders who embodied or advanced democratic ideals. He also presents iconoclastic analyses of Alexander Hamilton, Theodore Roosevelt, and John F. Kennedy, in wh

Bruce Miroff is chair of the political science department at the State University of New York at Albany.

Preface to the New Edition

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Introduction

1

(10)

The Aristocratic Statesman and the Constitution of American Capitalism

11

(39)

Alexander Hamilton

Merit, Fame, and Political Leadership

50

(33)

John Adams

Democratic Leadership and the Tribe of the Eagle

83

(42)

Abraham Lincoln

Dissenting Leadership and Feminist Vision

125

(33)

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Heroic Leadership and Masculine Spectacle

158

(42)

Theodore Roosevelt

Dissenting Leadership and Democratic Dignity

200

(32)

Eugene V. Debs

Democratic Leadership and the Modern State

232

(41)

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Heroic Leadership for a Television Age

273

(35)

John F. Kennedy

Dissenting Leadership and Democratic Redemption

308

(39)

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Democracy and Leadership in America

347

(14)

Notes

361

(50)

Index

411

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