What Makes a Great President? Historians Share Lessons From America's Most Consequential Leaders
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Colleen J. Shogan
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A brief excerpt from a WSJ series examining American leadership, introducing a piece where historians and journalists share lessons from consequential presidents and first ladies. The article poses the question of what leadership sustains a democratic republic, noting the presidency has been admired, criticized, mythologized, and blamed.
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· 3 pulledTwo and a half centuries after its founding, the American experiment faces a familiar question: What manner of leadership sustains a democratic republic over time?
The presidency has always stood at the center of that inquiry. It has been admired, criticized, mythologized and blamed in equal measure.
Yet longevity suggests that something deeper than dramatic moments, eloquent speeches or major policy vi
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