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Placing an ideal of participatory democracy against the notion of democratic realism, Miroff (political science, State U. of New York) looks at the leadership styles of John Adams, Abraham Lincoln, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Eugene Victor Debs, Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin Roosevelt, Martin Luther King, Jr., and John F. Kennedy. His argument is perhaps best symbolized by his critical/sympathetic treatment of socialist Debs who, he feels, articulated the grandest vision of American democratic ideals, yet failed to engage in the political battles necessary to achieve his goals. In contrast, the chapters on the "neo-Hamiltonians" (Kennedy and the Roosevelts) reveal their styles as essentially aristocratic. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
