American Presidents and the Presidency
By: Marcus Cunliffe.
Edition: 2d ed., rev. and enl.
Publisher: McGraw-Hill
Published: 1976
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 467
Subjects: Presidents -- United States.
Description: Traces the debates over the Federalist and Republican approaches of the Founding Fathers; the fissures in the Federalist period; the intrusion of populism in the campaign of Andrew Jackson; the significance of popular versus electoral college votes; Woodrow Wilson's divisive relationship with Congress; F.D.R.'s expansion of presidential power; and McCarthyism and the crosscurrent of the postwar era. Examines Richard Nixon and the Watergate debacle.
Notes: Bibliography: p. 445-451.
Edition for 1968 published under title: The American heritage history of the Presidency.
Includes index.