The American Presidency : An Interpretation

Contents: 1. Introductory. 2. The president and his cabinet. 3. The president and Congress. 4. Foreign relations. 5. Concluding observations.

“Laski had a massive impact on the politics and the formation of India, having taught a generation of future Indian leaders at the London School of Economics. It is almost entirely due to him that the London School of Economics has a semi-mythological status in India. He was steady in his unremitting advocacy of the independence of India. He was a revered figure to Indian students at the London School of Economics.

One Indian Prime Minister said, at every meeting of the Indian National Congress, there is vacant chair for the ghost of Harold Laski.” (jacket)