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Presidents often exhibit certain characteristics or attributes that make them effective leaders. Origins and development, 17762007winner of the benjamin franklin award for history, politics, and philosophyexamines both the constitutional precepts of the presidency and the social, economic, political, and international conditions that continue to shape it. In the soil poisoned by speculation grew those ugly weeds of waste, exploitation, and. Now in a new fifth edition, the american presidency. The illustrated encyclopedia of the presidents of america.

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