Erwin Hargrove Collection

Erwin Charles Hargrove, Jr., was born in St. Joseph, Missouri, on October 11, 1930. He received his BA from Yale in 1953 and his PhD there in 1963. He taught political science at Brown University from 1960 to 1976 and taught at Vanderbilt from 1976 to 1994. He also served as a senior fellow at the Urban Institute in Washington, D. C., from 1973 to 1976 and served as the director of the Vanderbilt Institute for Public Policy Studies from 1976 to 1985. He was a scholar of the American presidency and published several books, including Jimmy Carter as President: Leadership and the Politics of the Public Good; The Effective Presidency; The President as Leader: Appealing to the Better Angels of Our Nature; Presidential Leadership: Personality and Political Style; Power of the Modern Presidency; The Future of the Democratic Left in Industrial Democracies (edited); and Prisoners of Myth: The Leadership of the Tennessee Valley Authority, 1933–90. Hargrove died in Nashville, Tennessee, on October 11, 2022.