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How governors built the modern American presidency /

A governor's mansion is often the last stop for politicians who plan to move into the White House. Before Barack Obama was elected president of the United States, four of his last five predecessors had been governors. Executive experience at the state level informs individual presidencies, and,...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Ambar, Saladin M.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, ©2012.
Edición:1st ed.
Colección:Haney Foundation series.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The hidden prince: unveiling the presidency's executive narrative
  • Emerging executives of the Second Republic, 1876-1912
  • Theodore Roosevelt and the new American executive, 1881-1911
  • An "unconstitutional governor": Woodrow Wilson and the people's executive
  • Prince of the Hudson: FDR's Albany executive
  • "Undoing the framers' work": executive power and American democracy.