The Presidency and the American State : Leadership and Decision Making in the Adams, Grant, and Taft Administrations /

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"Examining the presidencies of John Quincy Adams, Ulysses S. Grant, and William Howard Taft, Stephen Rockwell traces emerging connections between presidential action and a robust state over the course of the nineteenth century and the Progressive Era. By analyzing these three undervalued presid...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Rockwell, Stephen J., 1966- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2023.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Taft, William H. > (William Howard), > 1857-1930.
Grant, Ulysses S. > (Ulysses Simpson), > 1822-1885.
Adams, John Quincy, > 1767-1848.
Presidents.
Politics and government.
Presidents > United States > History > Case studies.
United States.
United States > Politics and government > 20th century.
United States > Politics and government > 19th century.
History.
Case studies.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Choices within the state, 1776-1930 : process, principled innovation, and synthesis
  • President John Quincy Adams and the American State in the 1820s
  • Presidential decision making and the administrative state : process and procedure in the 1820s
  • President Grant and the American State after the Civil War
  • Presidential decision making and the evolving state : Grant, Reconstruction, and Indian affairs
  • President Taft and the 125-Year-Old American State
  • Taft the builder
  • Conclusion : the non-development of the American presidency and the new scholarship of the American State
  • Bibliographical essay : the American State and the understudied presidency.

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