Professor Schulman Analyzes Romney’s Convention Speech
Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney built his political career — and his claim to the presidency — on his success as a businessman. But in his acceptance speech Thursday night at the Republican National Convention, Romney went even further–not just asserting the value of his own entrepreneurial experience, but also declaring that the lack of experience running a business practically disqualified his opponent.
For most of the nation’s history, however, lawyers, educators and military men have dominated the roster of American presidents. Romney’s campaign, as Prof. Bruce Schulman notes in a recent piece for Salon, embodies a recent, and very different, model of presidential leadership.
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