Psychology Faculty Publications
Review of High Hopes: The Clinton Presidency and the Politics of Ambition
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
6-1997
Disciplines
American Politics | Leadership Studies | Mental Disorders | Other Political Science | Other Psychology | Personality and Social Contexts | Psychiatry and Psychology
Abstract
In High Hopes: The Clinton Presidency and the Politics of Ambition, Stanley Renshon continues his influential work in political personality and character. Along with Renshon’s concurrently published The Psychological Assessment of Presidential Candidates (New York University Press, 1996), High Hopes is an important addition to the growing body of literature in this area. These books showcase the merits of dual training in political science and psychological assessment; the author writes authoritatively as a political scientist with a thorough understanding of the presidency, and perceptively as a psychoanalyst with keen insight into the psychological dynamics that shape presidential performance. The present review focuses on High Hopes.
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Copyright © 1997 by the International Society of Political Psychology.
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Recommended Citation
Immelman, A. (1997). High hopes: The Clinton presidency and the politics of ambition [Review of the book High hopes: The Clinton presidency and the politics of ambition by S. A. Renshon. Political Psychology, 18(2) [Special issue: Culture and cross-cultural dimensions of political psychology], 535–539.
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