Table of Contents

Preface Evaluating Washington's Leadership and Character The President as Moral Leader: George Washington in Contemporary Perspective by Glenn A. Phelps The Command of Its Own Fortunes: Reconsidering Washington's Farewell Address by Matthew Spalding Washington as Cincinnatus: A Model of Leadership by Jason S. Lantzer George Washington: Can Aristotle Recapture What His Countrymen Have Forgotten? by Colleen J. Shogan Duty, Honor, Country: Parallels in the Leadership of George Washington and Dwight David Eisenhower by Philip G. Henderson The Foreign Policy of Republicanism: A Free Society in an Unfree World by William Allen Washington's Leadership: Prudence and the American Presidency by Ethan Fishman America's Presidential Triumvirate: Quantitative Measures of Character by William D. Pederson and Frank J. Williams The Origins of Washington's Leadership and Character The Young Washington: An Interpretive Essay by Mostafa Rejai and Kay Phillips The Nature and Development of Washington's Statesmanship: 1753-1783 by Kent A. Kirwan Washington and the Specter of Cromwell by Jim Piecuch "A Complete Gentleman": Congress's "Partiality" for George Washington in 1775 by William Guthrie Sayen George Washington, Popular Sovereignty, and the Legitimacy of Revolution by Ricardo A. Herrera Index

About the Author

ETHAN FISHMAN is Professor of Political Science at the University of South Alabama. WILLIAM D. PEDERSON is Professor and Chair of the Department of History and Social Sciences at Louisiana State University in Shreveport. MARK J. ROZELL is Associate Professor of Politics at The Catholic University of America.