The American Presidency,9781568024325

The American Presidency

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ISBN13: 9781568024325
ISBN10: 1568024320
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1998-12-01
Publisher(s): Cq Pr
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Summary

Now in a new edition, The American Presidency -- winner of the Benjamin Franklin Award for History, Politics and Philosophy -- examines both the constitutional precepts that underlie the presidency and the social, economic, political, and international conditions that continue to shape it.

Authors Milkis and Nelson analyze the origins of the presidency and discuss the patterns of presidential conduct that developed during the nineteenth century. They argue that the modern presidency had its origins not just in Franklin D. Roosevelt, as is commonly believed, but also in the earlier administrations of Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson.

This new edition provides updated coverage of the Clinton presidency through the first half of his second term. The authors take account of new research on the presidency to make this outstanding history of the presidency as up to date as possible.

Table of Contents

Preface xi
The Constitutional Convention
1(24)
Antecedents
2(6)
The Constitutional Convention
8(17)
Creating the Presidency
25(41)
The Making of the Presidency: An Overview
25(3)
Number of the Executive
28(2)
Selection and Succession
30(3)
Term of Office
33(1)
Removal
34(2)
Institutional Separation from Congress
36(3)
Enumerated Powers
39(13)
The Vice Presidency
52(3)
Ratifying the Constitution
55(11)
The Presidency of George Washington
66(19)
The Election of George Washington
67(2)
Making the Presidency Safe for Democracy
69(2)
Forming the Executive Branch
71(2)
Presidential ``Supremacy'' and the Conduct of the Executive Branch
73(3)
Presidential Nonpartisanship and the Beginning of Party Conflict
76(9)
The Rise of Party Politics and the Triumph of Jeffersonianism
85(31)
Washington's Retirement and the Jay Treaty: The Constitutional Crisis of 1796
85(4)
The 1796 Election
89(1)
The Embattled Presidency of John Adams
89(3)
The Alien and Sedition Acts
92(1)
The ``Revolution'' of 1800
93(3)
Jefferson's War with the Judiciary
96(1)
The Democratic-Republican Program and the Adjustment to Power
97(4)
The Limits of ``Popular'' Leadership
101(1)
The Twelfth Amendment
102(1)
Jefferson's Mixed Legacy
103(1)
The Presidency of James Madison
104(4)
The Presidencies of James Monroe and John Quincy Adams
108(8)
The Age of Jackson
116(27)
Jacksonian Democracy
117(2)
The Rise of the Party Convention
119(1)
Jackson's Struggle with Congress
120(2)
The Aftermath of the Bank Veto
122(1)
The Decline of the Cabinet
123(1)
The Limits of the Jacksonian Presidency
124(3)
Martin Van Buren and the Panic of 1837
127(1)
The Jacksonian Presidency Sustained
128(2)
John Tyler and the Problem of Presidential Succession
130(3)
The Presidency of James K. Polk
133(10)
The Presidency of Abraham Lincoln
143(20)
Lincoln and the Slavery Controversy
145(2)
The 1860 Elections
147(1)
Lincoln and Secession
148(2)
Lincoln's Wartime Measures
150(3)
The Emancipation Proclamation
153(3)
The Elections of 1864
156(2)
Lincoln's Legacy
158(5)
The Reaction against Presidential Power: Andrew Johnson to William McKinley
163(30)
Reconstruction and the Assault on Executive Authority
165(3)
The Impeachment of Andrew Johnson
168(2)
Ulysses S. Grant and the Abdication of Executive Power
170(3)
The Fight to Restore Presidential Power
173(9)
Congressional Government and the Prelude to a More Active Presidency
182(11)
Progressive Politics and Executive Power: The Presidencies of Theodore Roosevelt and William Howard Taft
193(29)
Theodore Roosevelt and the Expansion of Executive Power
195(17)
The Troubled Presidency of William Howard Taft
212(10)
Woodrow Wilson and the Defense of Popular Leadership
222(20)
Woodrow Wilson's Theory of Executive Leadership
224(1)
Wilson and Party Reform
225(1)
The Art of Popular Leadership
226(2)
Wilson's Relations with Congress
228(3)
Wilson as World Leader
231(11)
The Triumph of Conservative Republicanism
242(20)
The Harding Era
243(7)
The ``Silent'' Politics of Calvin Coolidge
250(4)
Herbert C. Hoover and the Great Depression
254(4)
The Twentieth Amendment
258(4)
The Consolidation of the Modern Presidency: Franklin D. Roosevelt to Dwight D. Eisenhower
262(37)
Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Modern Presidency
263(14)
The Modern Presidency Sustained: Harry S. Truman and Dwight D. Eisenhower
277(22)
Personalizing the Presidency: John F. Kennedy to Jimmy Carter
299(41)
John F. Kennedy and the Rise of ``Personal'' Leadership
300(7)
Lyndon B. Johnson and Presidential Government
307(6)
The Twenty-fifth Amendment
313(3)
The Presidency of Richard Nixon
316(11)
Gerald R. Ford and the Post-Watergate Era
327(4)
A President Named Jimmy
331(9)
A Restoration of Presidential Power? Ronald Reagan and George Bush
340(31)
The Reagan Revolution
340(13)
The Reagan Legacy and the Accession of George Bush
353(5)
The Bush Presidency
358(13)
Bill Clinton and the Modern Presidency
371(30)
The Elections of 1992
372(3)
The First Year of the Clinton Presidency
375(6)
The Restoration of Divided Government
381(3)
The Comeback President
384(6)
The Modern Presidency at the Dawn of the Twenty-first Century
390(11)
The Vice Presidency
401(22)
The Constitutional Convention
401(1)
The Nineteenth Century
402(4)
Theodore Roosevelt to Harry S. Truman
406(4)
The Modern Vice Presidency
410(9)
Conclusion
419(4)
Appendix 423(2)
Constitution of the United States 425(19)
U.S. Presidents and Vice Presidents 444(3)
Summary of Presidential Elections, 1789-1996 447(8)
Index 455

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