...leadership or the qualities of effective leaders, researchers and practitioners alike search for answers to the puzzle of what leadership can create better institutions and stronger system of higher education in the United States. Presidential leadership continues to be a central concern of scholars. Brodie and Banner's new book provides a novel approach to examining the topic of presidential leadership and complements, but differs from, earlier works that examine a single presidency, historical analysis of presidencies, or trends among university presidents. Instead, this book takes a life cycle and case history approach to examining eight university presidencies in the last 20 years. The advantage of the life cycle approach is that it examines different parts of the presidency, from the early courtship and appointment stage through the later plateau to the exit phase....

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