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Paul Laxalt, Tom Griscom, Donald Thomas Regan, Lyn Nofzinger, Fred Barnes, Lou Cannon, and Sander Vanocur provide noteworthy and highly readable perspectives on the aspect of leadership as it existed ( or was clearly lacking) in the presidency of Ronald Reagan.

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Volume I in the series examines the impact of change on leadership in general and the presidency in particular.

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The Miller Center has not only published eight earlier volumes on the presidency and science advising but has sponsored a national commission on the subject.

This work presents perspectives by experts during three different time periodsófrom 1989 to 1990, in 1991, and in 1992óillustrating the depth of the changes that have taken place in the former Soviet Union. Contents: Change in the Soviet Union: Political Dynamics in the Gorbachev Era, Gorbachev and Change in Soviet Foreign Policy, Reagan's Foreign Policy and Soviet-American Relations, The Rhetoric and Reality of Change in Soviet Domestic and F...

The issue of rhetoric and modern statesmanship is divided into four topics: the historical and philosophical background, problems of contemporary presidential rhetoric, the rhetoric of foreign policy and the rhetoric of discourse among statesmen. David Clinton addresses Tocqueville, democracy, and the moral issue in American statecraft. Halford Ryan looks at FDR's presidential rhetoric, Robert Orben examines speechmaking in the Ford administra...

Volume XXVII continues the major themes from previous volumes of the series including President as Political Leader, the President and Communication, Organizing Approaches to Policymaking, the President and the International Setting, and the President and Public Philosophy.

This volume addresses a long-neglected area in constitutional and international studies, Latin America. The book contains penetrating appraisals of the Spanish heritage as it influences Latin American constitutionalism and more recently American democracy.

This volume contains contributions from Kenneth W. Thompson, Russell Baker, Charles McDowell, Frederick Kaiser, A. William Reynolds, Paul H. Nitze, Ernest Evans, L. Bruce Laingen, Jack Fuller, John Gaddis, and Richard K. Matthews. Some of the topics addressed include: Is a new U.S. Basic Policy Concept Needed?, The President and the Management of the Hostage Crisis, and Constitutionalism and the Media.

This is a book of contrasts. Its contributors include both arms control negotiators and their critics. Its content spans questions about the need for nuclear weapons and the urgency of arms limitation. The authors are Republicans and Democrats.

This volume makes available to the general public some of Paul H. Nitze's most important papers on foreign policy and national security and arms control.

The unifying concepts of this volume are 'The President as Political Leader, ' 'The President and Congress, ' 'Organizing Approaches to Policy-making, ' 'The President, Communications and the Public, ' 'The International Setting, ' and 'The President and Public Philosophy.

Politics, law and medicine come together in any analysis of presidential disability. Constitutional questions arise in the interpretation and implementation of the Twenty-fifth Amendment. For these reasons, the Miller Center turned to a group of outstanding medical, legal and political authorities to broaden and deepen understanding on presidential disability. Contributors: Senator Birch E. Bayh, Jr., Kenneth R. Crispell, M.D., Paul B. Stephan...

While many people portray the American private and public sectors as antagonists, philanthropy constitutes a realm lying between the two. An institution unique in America, philanthropy draws its resources from the successes of free enterprise and seeks to apply them to the common good. The contributors are among the nation's foremost practitioners and scholars of philanthropy: Robert Payton, David Robinson, John G. Simon, Mark J. Rozell, Theod...

This volume emanated from the report of a 16-member commission formed by the White Burkett Miller Center to study and make recommendations on presidential transitions.

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Politics, law and medicine come together in any analysis of presidential disability. Constitutional questions arise in the interpretation and implementation of the Twenty-fifth Amendment. For these reasons, the Miller Center turned to a group of outstanding medical, legal and political authorities to broaden and deepen understanding on presidential disability. Contributors: Senator Birch E. Bayh, Jr., Kenneth R. Crispell, M.D., Paul B. Stephan...

The Presidency and Governance in Poland parallels the studies the Miller Center has produced on the American presidency and governance. It draws on the most able specialists on Poland, in the United States and Poland, who address issues that are central to any discussion of governance. Co-published with The Miller Center.