A Legacy of Leadership : Governors and American History /

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In A Legacy of Leadership, leading journalists and academics create a new framework for understanding the contributions of governors in defining democracy and shaping American history.

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Brooks, Clayton McClure
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
USA > President
Gouverneur.
Politische Führung
Women governors.
Politics and government
Governors.
Decentralization in government.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > American Government > State.
Gouverneurs > États-Unis > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Decentralization in government > United States > History > 20th century.
Women governors > United States.
Governors > United States > History > 20th century.
USA.
United States.
États-Unis > Politique et gouvernement > 20e siecle.
United States > Politics and government > 20th century.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Governing the twentieth century: building a history of the modern governorship / Clayton McClure Brooks
  • Challenges of a new century: Woodrow Wilson and the Progressive Era / John Milton Cooper
  • Huey Long and the Great Depression: rise of a populist demagogue / Richard D. White
  • The gangbuster as governor: Thomas E. Dewey and the Republican New Deal / Richard Norton Smith
  • Connecting the United States: governors and the building of the interstate system / Dan McNichol
  • Governors in the Civil Rights Era: the Wallace factor / Jeff Frederick
  • Preparing for the presidency: the political education of Ronald Reagan / Lou Cannon
  • Devolution in American Federalism in the twentieth century / Richard P. Nathan
  • The case of Ann Richards: women in the gubernatorial office / Jan Reid
  • Conclusion: the evolution of the gubernatorial office: United States governors over the twentieth century
  • Afterword: governing the twenty-first century
  • Timeline of governors and states in the twentieth century.

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