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New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc, 1970. First Edition [stated], presumed first printing. Hardcover. Good/Good. xiv, 722 pages. Illustrations. General Bibliography. Chapter Bibli… Meer...

New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc, 1970. First Edition [stated], presumed first printing. Hardcover. Good/Good. xiv, 722 pages. Illustrations. General Bibliography. Chapter Bibliographies and Basic Book List. Index. This is the concluding volume of the first complete biography of FDR. The division between a man of ideals and a protector of presidential authority is the focus of a detailed study of Roosevelt during the difficult war years. James MacGregor Burns (August 3, 1918 - July 15, 2014) was an American historian and political scientist, presidential biographer, and authority on leadership studies. He was the Woodrow Wilson Professor of Government Emeritus at Williams College and Distinguished Leadership Scholar at the James MacGregor Burns Academy of Leadership of the School of Public Policy at the University of Maryland, College Park. In 1971 Burns received the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award in History and Biography for his work on America's 32nd president, Roosevelt: The Soldier of Freedom. Burns shifted the focus of leadership studies from the traits and actions of great men to the interaction of leaders and their constituencies as collaborators working toward mutual benefit. He was best known for his contributions to the transactional, transformational, aspirational, and visionary schools of leadership theory. Derived from a Kirkus review: This is the sequel to Burns's Roosevelt: The Lion and the Fox (1956), and it retains the basic theme of dualism in FDR between the grand man of principle and ideals and the clay man of Realpolitik and practicality. A broad-based political biography that also captures Roosevelt the many-sided man with facility and felicity, Burns's volume rates high on both readability and scholarship, and offers a fair accounting of the strengths and the shortcomings of Roosevelt's war leadership. Burns views the vacillations and hesitations on Roosevelt's part over America's international role as a reflection of the division in the American people themselves, caught uncertainly "between the evangelical moods of idealism, sentimentalism, and utopianism of one era and older traditions of national self-regard, protectiveness, and prudence of another." Amidst all this ambivalence, Burns is sensitive to the important transitions occurring in the war years in American society, in the nature of the presidency, and in our relations with the Soviet Union. It is in Roosevelt's third term, rather than in the earlier New Deal years, that Burns finds "the foundations of modern presidential government," the broadening of presidential prerogatives and powers and the proliferation of the presidential staff. On the origins of the Cold War, he concludes that the decisive turn toward hostility and suspicion came in 1942-43 with the widening gap between promise and reality in the conduct of the war. On the home front, Burns demonstrates how federal power failed to channel the fast-running social and economic currents, especially in such matters as race relations. But all these subthemes relate back ultimately to the divisions in America and the two souls in Roosevelt's breast. "He was indeed, in all the symbolic and ironic senses of the term, a soldier of freedom." A rich historical portrait., Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc, 1970, 2.5, CN The Hague: Kluwer Law International, 2002. First Edition. Paperback. Like New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Type: Book Bulletin of Comparative Labour Relations 41. The Club of Labour Law Journals held a conference in Brussels in April 2001, under the auspices of the Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium and the Society for Social and International Cooperation. This book is the record of that significant conference. The presentations and discussion proceed along four main avenues: the "battle for the brains", the impact of atypical work arrangements, the concept of employability, and the online rights of workers. Important questions addressed include: do globalization and high technology necessarily go hand in hand?; which skills increase employability?; what are the social factors of employability?; are contingent and partly dependent workers protected in a fair way?; to what degree can the employment contract be stabilized?; how can we tackle the erosion of social security provisions?; to what extent should intra-company electronic resources be regulated?; and what is the relation between employers and illegal immigrants? 260pp., Kluwer Law International, 2002, 5<

2002, ISBN: 9789041116918

CN The Hague: Kluwer Law International, 2002. First Edition. Paperback. Like New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Type: Book Bulletin of Comparative La… Meer...

CN The Hague: Kluwer Law International, 2002. First Edition. Paperback. Like New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Type: Book Bulletin of Comparative Labour Relations 41. The Club of Labour Law Journals held a conference in Brussels in April 2001, under the auspices of the Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium and the Society for Social and International Cooperation. This book is the record of that significant conference. The presentations and discussion proceed along four main avenues: the "battle for the brains", the impact of atypical work arrangements, the concept of employability, and the online rights of workers. Important questions addressed include: do globalization and high technology necessarily go hand in hand?; which skills increase employability?; what are the social factors of employability?; are contingent and partly dependent workers protected in a fair way?; to what degree can the employment contract be stabilized?; how can we tackle the erosion of social security provisions?; to what extent should intra-company electronic resources be regulated?; and what is the relation between employers and illegal immigrants? 260pp., Kluwer Law International, 2002, 5<