Chapter 7 - Leadership of the Polity

Chapter seven is a recap of the first six chapter with different information added. Hargrove adds to FDR saying his greatest skill was rhetoric and used it most effectively in the crisis period, and again in WWII. Lyndon Johnson was a masterful legislative leader who understood myriad kinds of bargaining and had the ability to make them work for him anytime. However his character got him in the way and the American people didn’t like it. Reagan was a terrific speaker and a better strategist. He was emotionally self-confident without being arrogant. Hargrove again emphasizes his man focus on Aristotle because of his leadership.