Assessing George W. Bush's legacy
Subtitle: the right man?
By: edited by Iwan Morgan & Philip John Davies
Series: Evolving American presidency series
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 229
ISBN-13: 9780230108585
Description: This book examines George W. Bush's legacy in terms of his presidential leadership and politics and explains why he was the most controversial president of recent times. It focuses on Bush's expansion of presidential power in pursuit of the "war on terror," the ideological and pragmatic foundations of his presidential politics, and the complexity of his legacy in both foreign and domestic policy. In addition to an introductory overview, it contains ten original essays that assess the problems of rating the Bush presidency, the nature of Bush's presidential government, ideology and ideas in the Bush presidency, the administration's economic and foreign policies, and the electoral context of the times.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : the right man? / Iwan Morgan; title: Rating Bush / Andrew Rudalevige; title: George W. Bush's style of presidential leadership / Nigel Bowles; title: Bush's congressional legacy and congress's Bush legacy / John E. Owens; title: George W. Bush, the judiciary and the conservative constitutional counter-revolution : close but no cigar / Robert McKeever; title: The ethical record of the Bush presidency / Clodagh Harrington; title: George W. Bush pursue a neoconservative foreign policy? / Timothy J. Lynch; title: George W. Bush's foreign policy : counting the cost / John Dumbrell; title: Bush and big government conservatism / Alex Waddan; title: Bush's political economy : deficits, debt, and depression / Iwan Morgan; title: Bush's partisan legacy and the 2008 elections / Philip John Davies.