Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pages: 208
Trim: 6 x 9
978-1-4422-3242-6 • Hardback • February 2014 • $98.00 • (£75.00)
978-1-4422-3243-3 • Paperback • February 2014 • $46.00 • (£35.00)
978-1-4422-3244-0 • eBook • February 2014 • $43.50 • (£33.00)
Paul R. Lawrence is a partner at Ernst & Young and a leader in the government and public sector practice.
Mark A. Abramson is president of Leadership, Inc.
Chapter One: Introduction
Chapter Two: The Job of the Political Executive: Running an Agency
Chapter Three: The Deputy Secretaries
Chapter Four: The Producers
Chapter Five: The Regulators
Chapter Six: The Infrastructors
Chapter Seven: The Scientists
Chapter Eight: The Collaborators
Appendix: Dates of Interviews
Index of Profiles by Organization
References
About the Authors and Contributors
[T]his [is an] important and admirably well-crafted volume. Every American has a stake in what government does and how political executives manage; few Americans, however, have enough of an interest to read through a granular-level, interview-based book on the subject. But more of us should, and I would be delighted . . . to see this fine book top the best-seller lists. . . .With every new administration over the years to come there will be a fresh crop of political executives in dire need—whether they know it or not—of the lessons, cautionary tales, and pep talks from their predecessors assembled here. The rest of us can treasure it now as a reminder of how exquisitely important these jobs are; how lucky we are to have such talented, patriotic people taking up these brutally hard and often thankless tasks; and what a pickle we will be in if public leaders of this caliber ever stop raising their hands to do the difficult work on which our welfare depends.
— Washington Monthly
Political Executives Profiled:Jonathan S. Adelstein, Daniel M. Ashe, John Berry, Rebecca M. Blank,Rafael Borras, Michael R. Bromwich, William V. Corr, Patrick D. Gallagher, W.Scott Gould, Margaret A. Hamburg, Seth D. Harris, David J. Hayes, Allison A.Hickey, David A. Hinson, Dennis F. Hightower, Pamela S. Hyde, Raymond M.Jefferson, Maurice Jones, David J. Kappos, Joseph A. Main, Arun Majumdar,Allison M. Macfarlane, Alejandro Mayorkas, Marcia K. McNutt, Victor M.Mendez, Kathleen A. Merrigan, Anthony W. Miller, John T. Morton, RichardG. Newell, Thomas R. Nides, Robert A. Petzel, John S. Pistole, Daniel B.Poneman, James W. Runcie, David H. Stevens, David L. Strickland, KathrynD. Sullivan, Joseph C. Szabo, William J. Taggart, Inez Moore Tenenbaum,Mary K. Wakefield, Jon Wellinghoff• Featured in Washington Monthly's Sept./Oct. 2014 issue article: Obama’s Bureaucratic Generals: Inside the lives of the agency heads who actually run the federal government by John D. Donahue http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/magazine/septemberoctober_2014/on_political_books/obamas_bureaucratic_generals051746.php?page=all