Fred Greenstein, Date of Birth, Date of Death
TweetFred Greenstein
American political scientist
Date of Birth: 01-Sep-1930
Date of Death: 03-Dec-2018
Profession: political scientist
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Virgo 
About Fred Greenstein
- Fred Irwin Greenstein (September 1, 1930 – December 3, 2018) was an American political scientist, known for his work on political leadership and the US presidency. Born in the Bronx, New York City, in 1930, Greenstein completed a bachelor's degree at Antioch College in 1953 and a doctorate at Yale University in 1960.
- He began his teaching career at Yale in 1959, was a professor at Wesleyan University from 1962 to 1973, and then moved to Princeton University, where he served for the rest of his career.Greenstein published many books and journal articles.
- His book The Hidden-Hand Presidency changed the way many scholars viewed the Eisenhower presidency and received the Louis Brownlow Award in 1983 from the National Academy of Public Administration.
- How Presidents Test Reality received the 1990 Richard E.
- Neustadt Award from the American Political Science Association.
- Greenstein received a Guggenheim fellowship in 1976, was named a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences the same year, and served as president of the International Society of Political Psychology from 1996 to 1997.
- Greenstein retired from Princeton in 2001, and died at his home in Princeton, New Jersey, in 2018, aged 88.Greenstein's major books included: The American Party System and the American People (1963) Children and Politics (1965) Personality and Politics: Problems of Evidence, Inference, and Conceptualization (1969) The Handbook of Political Science (1975) (editor, with Nelson W.
- Polsby) The Hidden-Hand Presidency: Eisenhower as Leader (1982) How Presidents Test Reality: Decisions on Vietnam, 1954 and 1965 (1989) (with John Burke) The Presidential Difference: Leadership Style from FDR to Clinton (2000) Inventing the Job of President: Leadership Style from George Washington to Andrew Jackson (2009)
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