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The qualitative study of presidential personality / Fred I. Greenstein -- Political leadership: some methodological considerations / Betty Glad -- Motivation and political leadership / David Winter -- U.S. presidents as conflict managers: the operational codes of George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton / Mark Schafer, Michael D. Young, and Stephen G. Walker -- Motive imagery and integrative complexity: Bill Clinton, George Mitchell, and the Northern Ireland peace talks / Linda O. Valenty and Mary E. Carroll -- The political personality of U.S. president George W. Bush / Aubrey Immelman -- Assessments of America's chief executives: insights from biographers and objective personality measures / Steven J. Rubenzer, Thomas R. Faschingbauer, and Deniz S. Ones -- Studying images and their impact on behavior: the case of the Carter Administration / Jerel Rosati -- John F. Kennedy as dramatic leader / Robert E. Gilbert -- Cloak and swagger: personality and leadership in the vice presidency of Spiro T. Agnew / Scott W. Webster -- Governing a divided America in the new millennium: heroic versus reflective leadership / Stanley A. Renshon.

The major theme of this Festschrift will be state-of-the-art criminology at the millennium and its impact into the 21st century. The editors have solicited major figures in contemporary criminology to elucidate the current state and future prospects of criminology at the turn of the century. It is appropriate that such a volume be produced in honor of Marvin E. Wolfgang, the most influential criminologist in the English-speaking world. Those invited to contribute were students or colleagues of Professor Wolfgang and are themselves distinguished criminologists. They represent criminology both of the past and the future. The appeal of the current book is not that it honors Marvin Wolfgang, but rather that it provides an accounting of where the discipline of criminology currently stands and its future directions. Professor Marvin E. Wolfgang was unsurpassed as a criminologist, distinguished mentor, and gentleman. A book designed to contribute to the most contemporary debates in criminology is a most fitting tribute

This elegantly written book is a bold attempt to reinterpret the nature of sexual violence and to imagine the possibility of overcoming it. Lawrence Kramer traces today's sexual identities to their nineteenth-century sources, drawing on the music, literature, and thought of the period to show how normal identity both promotes and rationalizes violence against women.To make his case, Kramer uses operatic lovedeaths, Beethoven's "Kreutzer Sonata" and the Tolstoy novella named after it; the writings of Walt Whitman and Alfred Lord Tennyson, psychoanalysis, and the logic of dreams. In formal and informal reflections, he explores the self-contradictions of masculinity, the shifting alignments of femininity, authority, and desire, and the interdependency of hetero- and homosexuality. At the same time, he imagines alternatives that could allow gender to be freed from the existing system of polarities that inevitably promote sexual violence.Kramer's writing avoids the conventional dress of intellectual authority and moves between music and literature in a style that is both intimate and effective. He combines informed scholarship with candid personal utterance and makes clear what is at stake in this crucial debate. After the Lovedeath will have a profound impact on anyone interested in new ways to think about gender