“Placing” Richard E. Neustadt

For more than a quarter-century, from the 1960s almost to the 1990s, Dick Neustadt and I taught a course called The Uses of History at Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government. In 1986 we distilled from it the bookThinking in Time: Uses of History for Decision Makers.¹ The subject of the cours...

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Published inGuardian of the Presidency p. 1
Main Author ERNEST R. MAY
Format Book Chapter
LanguageEnglish
Published United States Brookings Institution Press 01.10.2009
Bloomsbury Publishing USA
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Applied sciences
Armed conflict
Armed forces
Behavioral sciences
Central government
Disease outbreaks
Economic history
Economics education
Education
Educational administration
Engineering
Epidemics
Epidemiology
Executive branch
Federal government structure
Formal education
Forming techniques
Government
Great Depression
Health and wellness
Health sciences
Historical methodology
Historiography
History
History instruction
Humanities instruction
Industrial engineering
Manufacturing
Manufacturing engineering
Manufacturing processes
Military science
Molding
National government
Navies
Pedagogy
Personality psychology
Political science
Presidential powers
Psychological attitudes
Psychology
Public health
Specialized education
Stereotypes
War
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Summary:For more than a quarter-century, from the 1960s almost to the 1990s, Dick Neustadt and I taught a course called The Uses of History at Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government. In 1986 we distilled from it the bookThinking in Time: Uses of History for Decision Makers.¹ The subject of the course and the book was how decisionmakers and those who work for them could analyze and take account of what had happened in the past without being trapped into seeing history as a source of legible “lessons.” We commenced and continued the course and wrote the book
ISBN:081571842X
9780815718420