How governors built the modern American presidency
By: Saladin M. Ambar
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 185
ISBN-13: 9780812243963
Subjects: Politics and government; Powers and duties; Governors; Presidents; Executive power; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The hidden prince: unveiling the presidency's executive narrative; title: Emerging executives of the Second Republic, 1876-1912; title: Theodore Roosevelt and the new American executive, 1881-1911; title: An "unconstitutional governor": Woodrow Wilson and the people's executive; title: Prince of the Hudson: FDR's Albany executive; title: "Undoing the framers' work": executive power and American democracy.