James MacGregor Burns (1918-2014) wrote about the notion of transforming leadership. A transforming President seeks not only to make deals and solve problems but bring enduring changes to the political system for the better. 
With the subject’s cooperation, James MacGregor Burns also published the first book-length biography of JFK, in 1960 (shown here with Kennedy in Palm Beach after his victory over Nixon): #Burns
Jacqueline Kennedy wrote a long letter to Jim Burns in November 1959 to complain that his biography of JFK (then pre-publication) did not take him seriously enough:
In her complaining letter to Jim Burns of November 1959, Jacqueline Kennedy also wrote of JFK, "I see, every succeeding week I am married to him, that he has what may be the single most important quality for a leader--an imperturbable self-confidence and sureness of his powers."
Joseph Kennedy, Sr., (rightly) complained that the photograph used on the cover of Burns’s book (published 1960) was out of date and made JFK look too young and un-Presidential:
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