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The Decline of America: 100 Years of Leadership Failures
A long-form study of presidential leadership, national direction, and the real cost of bad decision-making at the top.
Book Description
Presidential leadership judged by consequences, not mythology
The Decline of America examines a century of presidential leadership and asks what happens when a country keeps rewarding failure at the top.
Beginning with Woodrow Wilson and moving through Barack Obama, Dr. David D. Schein studies presidents through ethics, judgment, and the real-world consequences of their decisions. The book pushes past mythology and personality to focus on outcomes: war, debt, institutional weakness, civic trust, and the slow accumulation of national decline.
Rather than treating decline as a sudden modern crisis, the book argues that it builds over time through repeated failures in leadership, accountability, and public understanding. It gives readers a broader framework for measuring presidents seriously, not sentimentally.
About the Author
About Dr. David D. Schein
Dr. David D. Schein is an author, professor, and public commentator whose work bridges leadership, business law commentary, and public affairs. Through Claremont Management Group and his academic career, he has advised businesses, taught students across graduate and undergraduate programs, and written on employment law, ethics, leadership, and policy. That same cross-disciplinary lens shapes The Decline of America, combining historical judgment with a practical concern for how institutions rise, fail, and can be measured more honestly.
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