Syllabus

LEADERSHIP IN AMERICAN HISTORY

History 195S.06 Fall 2003

Syllabus (Subject to modification as appropriate)

Session I Introduction: Course Requirements, Questions to be considered

Session II The Prince (Machiavelli)

Session III The Ox Bow Incident (Clark)

Session IV The Ox Bow Incident (Clark)

Session V Leadership, (Burns)
Prologue: Part I, Chapter 1 & 2
Part III Chapters 6, 7,8,9
Part IV Chapters 10 – 14

Session VI Discussion of Paper Topics

Session VII All The King’s Men (Warren)

Session VIII All The King’s Men (Warren)

Session IX Jimmy Carter – Failure or Statesman? (Handouts)

Session X Dilemmas of Leadership
(Handouts) - Jefferson and Slavery
FDR & the Jews
Kennedy and 13 Days In October

Session XI Eyewitness to Power (Gergen)

Session XII Presidential Leadership (Handouts)

Session XII Certain Trumphets (Wills)

Session XIV Public and Private Ethnics of Leaders (Film)

Session XV Lord of the Flies (Golding)

Session XVI A Parable for our Times

Session XVII Thinking in Time (Neustadt and May)

Class presentations as assigned for the remainder of the semester.