The American President - 5th Edition Author:Robert E. DiClerico, Robert DiClerico This book serves as a valuable and intriguing resource on the presidential institution, exploring the potential and limitations of influence. It focuses on six major related concerns - presidential selection, power, accountability, decision-making, personality, and leadership, and also looks at the office from a historical to current events per... more »spective. For anyone who wants a better understanding of the proper role of the president, and appreciates the increasingly controversial political environment in which that office functions.« less