Presidential Values

In our rich land of immigrants, sources and traces of American values are more clearly seen within the context of a framework to discern progress or decline. The long, mostly positive journey that Americans have made with values over time now seems to have reached a dangerous negative inflection point in the nation's conduct.To help understand why American values and the public discourse have dipped into negative territory, Jim Hoffman developed a simple American Value System that is directly applicable to leaders in the United States, although the focus in this book is American presidents.A central thesis of this book frames the question: Do United States presidents who possess and demonstrate superior principles and values deliver the best results during their terms in office?