Fred Greenstein

Professor of Politics, Emeritus at Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs

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  • Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs

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Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs

Biography

Fred I. Greenstein is Professor of Politics Emeritus at Princeton University. His books include Children and Politics (1965), Personality and Politics (1969), The Hidden-Hand Presidency: Eisenhower as Leader (1982), How Presidents Test Reality (1989, with John P. Burke), The Presidential Difference: Leadership Style from FDR to Barack Obama (2009), and Inventing the Job of President: Leadership Style from George Washington to Andrew Jackson 2009. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and past president of the International Society for Political Psychology. He received a BA from Antioch College in 1953 and a PhD from Yale University in 1960.

A longer biography can be found here.

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  • Psychology

  • U.S. Presidency

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