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Title: Professor of Politics, Emeritus
Area(s):
  • Psychology
  • U.S. presidency
Office: Offsite
Fax: 609-258-5014
Assistant: Helene E. Wood
Fred Greenstein I.

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.