Contemporary presidential studies : a reader / Robert P. Watson, editor.

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Watson, Robert P., 1962-
Language:English
Published: New York : Nova History Publications, [2002], ©2002.
Subjects:
Presidents > United States > History.
Presidents > Study and teaching > United States.
United States > Politics and government.
United States > Politics and government > Study and teaching.
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Physical Description:xvi, 289 pages ; 27 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Introduction: Presidential studies and presidential research / Robert P. Watson
  • Historical Reassessments of Presidents: George Washington's character and slavery / James P. Pfiffner
  • Governing the devil in hell: "bleeding Kansas" and the destruction of the Franklin Pierce presidency (1854-1856) / Michael J.C. Taylor
  • The domestic Lincoln: White House lobbying of the Civil War Congresses / Jon Schaff
  • The "smallest mistake": explaining the failures of the Hayes and Harrison presidencies / Douglas Steven Gallagher
  • The Challenge of Governing
  • Separating rhetoric from policy: speechwriting under Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter / Karen M. Hult and Charles E. Walcott
  • The rhetoric of presidential veto messages / Christopher J. Dering, Lee Sigelman and Jennifer L. Saunders
  • A revisionist view of George Bush and Congress, 1989: presidential support, 'veto strength,' and legislative strategy / Richard S. Conley
  • The politics of presidential appointments: a thorny business / Colton C. Campbell
  • Relations with Congress and Public Policy: Regime formation and maturation in the White House: the rise of internationalism during the administration of Theodore Roosevelt / Tom Lansford
  • The collapse of an inherited agenda: George Bush and the Reagan foreign policy legacy / Victoria A. Farrar-Myers
  • Debunking the myth: Carter, Congress, and the politics of airline deregulation / David B. Cohen and Chris J. Dolan
  • Clinton's greatest legislative achievement? The success of the 1993 budget reconciliation bill / Patrick Fisher
  • Researching and Evaluating the Presidency: Ranking and evaluating presidents: the case of Theodore Roosevelt / Max J. Skidmore
  • The emerging scholarly consensus on presidential leadership: a new realism, an old idealism / Raymond Tatalovich and Thomas S. Engeman
  • Research on the presidency: the ususal problem of biographical accounts / William Cunion
  • Presidents after the White House: a preliminary study / Max J. Skidmore
  • Appendix A. The presidents
  • Appendix B. Article II of the Constitution
  • Appendix C. Constitutional amendements pertaining to the presidency
  • Appendix D. La of presidential succession
  • Appendix E. Sources for studying the presidency.