Overview
This book argues that modern presidents could learn much from Franklin Roosevelt's method of organizing his presidency. Roosevelt consciously avoided a large, functionally specialized White House bureaucracy. Instead, he developed staff agencies composed mostly of civil servants and personally managed them using competitive administrative practices. Matthew Dickinson is the first scholar to reconstruct the methods FDR used and his research suggests modern presidents could benefit greatly by studying them.
- | Author: Matthew J. Dickinson
- | Publisher: Cambridge University Press
- | Publication Date: Dec 28, 1996
- | Number of Pages: 284 pages
- | Binding: Hardback or Cased Book
- | ISBN-10: 0521481937
- | ISBN-13: 9780521481939
