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American political scientist
Fred Irwin Greenstein (September 1, 1930 – December 3, 2018) was an American
political scientist , known for his work on political leadership and the US
presidency .
Born in the
Bronx ,
New York City , in 1930, Greenstein completed a bachelor's degree at
Antioch College in 1953 and a doctorate at
Yale University in 1960.
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[2] He began his teaching career at Yale in 1959, was a professor at
Wesleyan University from 1962 to 1973, and then moved to
Princeton University , where he served for the rest of his career.
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Greenstein published many books and journal articles. His book The Hidden-Hand Presidency changed the way many scholars viewed the
Eisenhower presidency and received the
Louis Brownlow Award in 1983 from the
National Academy of Public Administration . How Presidents Test Reality received the 1990
Richard E. Neustadt Award from the
American Political Science Association . Greenstein received a
Guggenheim fellowship in 1976, was named a fellow of the
American Academy of Arts and Sciences the same year, and served as president of the
International Society of Political Psychology from 1996 to 1997. Greenstein retired from Princeton in 2001, and died at his home in
Princeton, New Jersey , in 2018, aged 88.
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Greenstein's major books included:
The American Party System and the American People (1963)
Children and Politics (1965)
Personality and Politics: Problems of Evidence, Inference, and Conceptualization (1969)
The Handbook of Political Science (1975) (editor, with
Nelson W. Polsby )
The Hidden-Hand Presidency: Eisenhower as Leader (1982)
How Presidents Test Reality: Decisions on Vietnam, 1954 and 1965 (1989) (with John Burke)
The Presidential Difference: Leadership Style from FDR to Clinton (2000)
Inventing the Job of President: Leadership Style from George Washington to Andrew Jackson (2009)
References
^ Seelye, Katharine Q. (December 14, 2018).
"Fred Greenstein, 88, Dies; Political 'Psychologist' Assessed Presidents" . New York Times . Retrieved January 6, 2019 .
^
"Fred I. Greenstein" . Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. Retrieved 10 December 2018 .
^ Utter, Glenn H.; Lockhart, Charles, eds. (1993).
American Political Scientists: A Dictionary (PDF) . Westport, Conn: Greenwood Press.
^ Saxon, Jamie (10 December 2018).
"Fred Greenstein, 'world-class scholar' of the American presidency, dies at 88" . Princeton University. Retrieved 10 December 2018 .
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