Case Studies in Political Leadership

Edited by George R. Goethals, E. Claiborne Robins Distinguished Professorship in Leadership Studies Emeritus and Scott T. Allison, Emeritus Professor of Psychology, University of Richmond, USA

‘Sadly, books at the airport about leadership can lapse into bromides and happy talk – unsubstantiated pearls of wisdom without linking them to the real world. In contrast, this volume depends on anchoring its analysis in actual events and provides background information as context for what individual leaders will have done or said. This decision to draw from documented incidents happily contributes to the reliability of its conclusions.’

• ContentsPreface xiiiPART I UNITED STATES OF AMERICA CASES1 Retiring becomes him 2Edward J. Larson2 The Founding Fathers’ politics of humility and restraint 9Susan Dunn3 Andrew Jackson and nullification: “Our Union: It must be preserved.” 19George R. Goethals4 LBJ and the Gulf of Tonkin 29Bert A. Spector5 Give us the ballot: the ratification of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 37Julian Maxwell Hayter6 Martin Luther King at Birmingham 44Bert A. Spector7 The company we keep: exploring presidential leadership throughthe lens of McGeorge Bundy, Lyndon B. Johnson, and the Vietnam War 54Lauren Anstey and James McAllister8 Watergate, President Nixon, and Representative Butler’s dilemma 65Kenneth P. Ruscio9 Jimmy Carter and the 1978 Camp David Accords 76George R. Goethals10 The determined ones: the collaborative leadership of Hank Adams,Vine Deloria, Jr., and Billy Frank, Jr. 84David E. Wilkins11 Presidential leadership and AIDS 96Bert A. Spector12 Ehren Watada and selective conscientious objection 105Jessica Flanigan13 Richmond, Virginia’s 20-year experiment with “strong mayor”government 112Thad Williamson14 Nancy Pelosi and the Affordable Care Act 122Daniel J. Palazzolo15 Stacey Abrams: championing voting rights and transformingAmerican democracy 134Crystal L. HoytPART II INTERNATIONAL CASES16 Hatshepsut the female king 146Joanne B. Ciulla17 Thomas More, chancellor 154Charlotte Tisdale and Peter Kaufman18 Making the invisible important: invisible leadership and the case ofthe Babington Plot 164Kristin M.S. Bezio and Ana Sofia Martinez19 The East India Company 177Kristin M.S. Bezio and Ana Sofia Martinez20 “I have some rights of memory in this kingdom”: Hamlet’sMachiavellian world 189Michael Harvey21 A study in leadership contrasts: Leon Trotsky and Joseph Stalin 199Jeffrey K. Hass22 Political leadership and the struggle for Tibet, 1950–1959 209Javier Hidalgo23 How a “socialist utopia” became the death cult of Jonestown 220Dennis Tourish24 Not a solo act: what Jacinda Ardern’s leadership teaches us aboutcollaboration 231Suze Wilson25 Volodymyr Zelenskyy as Kafkaesque hero 242Leah Tomkins26 Is there a clumsy solution to the wicked problem of climate change? 254Keith Grint