Recapturing the Oval Office : New Historical Approaches to the American Presidency /

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Several generations of historians figuratively abandoned the Oval Office as the bastion of out-of-fashion stories of great men. And now, decades later, the historical analysis of the American presidency remains on the outskirts of historical scholarship, even as policy and political history have reb...

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Other Authors: Skowronek, Stephen, Schulman, Bruce J. (Editor), Balogh, Brian (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2015.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Presidents
Politics and government
Executive power
HISTORY > Historiography.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Affairs & Administration.
Pouvoir executif > États-Unis > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Presidents > États-Unis > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Executive power > United States > History > 20th century.
Presidents > United States > History > 20th century.
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:
  • Introduction : confessions of a presidential assassin / Brian Balogh
  • The unsettled state of presidential history / Stephen Skowronek
  • Personal dynamics and presidential transitions : the case of Roosevelt and Truman / Frank Costigliola
  • Narrator in chief : presidents and the politics of economic crisis from FDR to Barack Obama / Alice O'Connor
  • The Reagan devolution : movement conservatives and the right's days of rage, 1988-1994 / Robert O. Self
  • There will be oil : presidents, wildcat religion, and the culture wars of pipeline politics / Darren Dochuk
  • Ike's world : ideology and power in Eisenhower's national strategy / William Hitchcock
  • Black appointees, political legitimacy, and the American presidency / Nathan Connolly
  • Presidents and the media / Susan J. Douglas
  • The making of the celebrity president / Kathryn Cramer Brownell
  • Stand by me : coalitions and presidential power from a cross-national perspective / Cathie Jo Martin
  • Taking the long view : presidents in a system stacked against them / Daniel Galvin
  • American presidential authority and economic expertise since World War II / Michael A. Bernstein
  • The changing presidential politics of disaster from Coolidge to Nixon / Gareth Davies
  • Conclusion : the perils and prospects of presidential history / Bruce J. Schulman.

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