The modern American presidency
By: Lewis L. Gould ; foreword by Richard Norton Smith.
Publisher: University Press of Kansas
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Lawrence
Language: eng
Number of pages: 301
Subjects: Presidents -- United States -- History -- 20th century; Presidents -- United States -- Biography; United States -- Politics and government -- 20th century; United States -- Politics and government -- 1897-1901
Genres: Biography.
Description: "The Modern American Presidency is a interpretive synthesis of our twentieth-century leaders, filled with intriguing insights into how the presidency has evolved as America rose to prominence on the world stage. Gould traces the decline of the party system and the increasing importance of the media, resulting in the rise of the role of the president as celebrity. He traces the growth of the White House staff and executive bureaucracy. And he shows us a succession of chief executives who increasingly have known less and less about the business of governing the country, observing that most would have had a better historical reputation if they had contented themselves with a single term."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: The age of Cortelyou : William McKinley and Theodore Roosevelt; title: The lawyer and the professor : William Howard Taft and Woodrow Wilson; title: The modern presidency recedes : Warren G. Harding, Calvin Coolidge, and Herbert Hoover; title: The modern presidency revives and grows : Franklin D. Roosevelt; title: The presidency in the Cold War era : Harry S. Truman and Dwight D. Eisenhower; title: The souring of the modern presidency : John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson; title: The rise of the continuous campaign : Richard Nixon; title: The modern presidency under siege : Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter; title: The modern presidency in a Republican era : Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush; title: Perils of the modern presidency : Bill Clinton.