Contents

List of Tables and Figure
Preface
Acknowledgments

1. The Fateful Choice
2. Harry Truman and the System at Its Best
3. James Buchanan and the Collapse of the System
4. Unhappy in Their Own Way: Failed Unfiltered Presidents
5. Five Stars and a Bull Moose: The Triumph of Unfiltered Presidents
6. Assessing Filtered and Unfiltered Candidates
Conclusion. Where Do We Go from Here?

Appendix: Statistical Analysis, Case Selection, and Theoretical Concerns
Notes
Bibliography
Index

About the Author

Gautam Mukunda is a Research Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Center for Public Leadership, author of Indispensable: When Leaders Really Matter, and the host of NASDAQ’s World Reimagined podcast. He was formerly an Assistant Professor at Harvard Business School and Distinguished Visiting Professor at Schwarzman College, Tsinghua University.

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