Presidential Leadership Many scholars and academics have claimed that Richard Neustadt's book Presidential Power and the Modern Presidents, a brilliant and insightful commentary on not only the workings of the office of the president but also the pitfalls any president can encounter as well as the way personality and leadership fit into the making of a president. In short, Neustadt almost gives us a model for what a president must be and what he must …showed first 75 words of 1961 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1961 total…have a copy of this book in the oval office. It doesn't give them a blueprint per se but each person can and will get something different out of it and they will get ideas of not necessarily how to be president because there are too many factors that effect how one should act as president but they will get ideas of how not to be president. That is the real value of this bo