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

"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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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Rockwell, Stephen J., 1966- (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2023.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • 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.