Elusive Victories

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Elusive Victories is written by Andrew Joseph Polsky and published by . It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0190252642 (ISBN 10) and 9780190252649 (ISBN 13).

In 'Elusive Victories', Polsky provides a fascinating study of seven wartime presidents, drawing larger lessons about the limits of the power of the White House during armed conflict. He examines, in turn, Abraham Lincoln, Woodrow Wilson, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon, George W. Bush, and Barack Obama, showing how each gravely overestimated his power as commander-in-chief. In each case, these presidents' resources did not match the key challenges that recur from war to war.