American Presidency
Subtitle: Origins and Development, 1776-2014
Publisher: SAGE Publications, Incorporated
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 624
ISBN-13: 9781483318691
Table of contents: title: Preface
pagenum: ix; label: Chapter 1
title: The Constitutional Convention
pagenum: 1; title: Antecedents
pagenum: 2; title: The Constitutional Convention
pagenum: 8; label: Chapter 2
title: Creating the Presidency
pagenum: 28; title: The Making of the Presidency: An Overview
pagenum: 28; title: Number of the Executive
pagenum: 31; title: Selection and Succession
pagenum: 33; title: Term of Office
pagenum: 36; title: Removal
pagenum: 38; title: Institutional Separation from Congress
pagenum: 40; title: Enumerated Powers
pagenum: 42; title: The Vice Presidency
pagenum: 57; title: Ratifying the Constitution
pagenum: 60; label: Chapter 3
title: Bringing the Constitutional Presidency to Life: George Washington and John Adams
pagenum: 72; title: The Election of George Washington
pagenum: 73; title: Making the Presidency Safe for Democracy
pagenum: 75; title: Forming the Executive and Judicial Branches
pagenum: 77; title: Presidential 'Supremacy' and the Conduct of the Executive Branch
pagenum: 80; title: Presidential Nonpartisanship and the Beginning of Party Conflict
pagenum: 83; title: Washington's Retirement and the Jay Treaty: The Constitutional Crisis of 1796
pagenum: 90; title: The 1796 Election
pagenum: 94; title: The Embattled Presidency of John Adams
pagenum: 95; title: The Alien and Sedition Acts
pagenum: 98; label: Chapter 4
title: The Triumph of Jeffersonianism
pagenum: 104; title: The 'Revolution' of 1800
pagenum: 105; title: Jefferson's War with the Judiciary
pagenum: 108; title: The Democratic-Republican Program and the Adjustment to Power
pagenum: 110; title: The Limits of 'Popular' Leadership
pagenum: 114; title: The Twelfth Amendment
pagenum: 115; title: Jefferson's Mixed Legacy
pagenum: 117; title: The Presidency of James Madison and the Rise of the House of Representatives
pagenum: 118; title: The Presidencies of James Monroe and John Quincy Adams
pagenum: 122; label: Chapter 5
title: The Age of Jackson
pagenum: 131; title: Jacksonian Democracy
pagenum: 132; title: The Rise of the Party Convention
pagenum: 136; title: Jackson's Struggle with Congress
pagenum: 136; title: The Aftermath of the Bank Veto
pagenum: 139; title: The Decline of the Cabinet
pagenum: 140; title: The Limits of the Jacksonian Presidency
pagenum: 142; title: Martin Van Buren and the Panic of 1837
pagenum: 146; title: The Jacksonian Presidency Sustained
pagenum: 147; title: John Tyler and the Problem of Presidential Succession
pagenum: 149; title: The Presidency of James K. Polk
pagenum: 152; title: The Slavery Controversy and the Twilight of the Jacksonian Presidency
pagenum: 157; label: Chapter 6
title: The Presidency of Abraham Lincoln
pagenum: 165; title: Lincoln and the Slavery Controversy
pagenum: 167; title: The Election of 1860
pagenum: 169; title: Lincoln and Secession
pagenum: 171; title: Lincoln's Wartime Measures
pagenum: 173; title: The Emancipation Proclamation
pagenum: 177; title: The Election of 1864
pagenum: 180; title: Lincoln's Legacy
pagenum: 183; label: Chapter 7
title: The Reaction Against Presidential Power: Andrew Johnson to William McKinley
pagenum: 188; title: Reconstruction and the Assault on Executive Authority
pagenum: 190; title: The Impeachment of Andrew Johnson
pagenum: 195; title: Ulysses S. Grant and the Abdication of Executive Power
pagenum: 197; title: The Fight to Restore Presidential Power
pagenum: 202; title: Congressional Government and the Prelude to a More Active Presidency
pagenum: 213; label: Chapter 8
title: Progressive Politics and Executive Power: The Presidencies of Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and Woodrow Wilson
pagenum: 227; title: Theodore Roosevelt and the Expansion of Executive Power
pagenum: 229; title: The Troubled Presidency of William Howard Taft
pagenum: 244; title: Progressive Politics and the Elections of 1912
pagenum: 250; title: Woodrow Wilson's Theory of Executive Leadership
pagenum: 253; title: Wilson and Party Reform
pagenum: 255; title: The Art of Popular Leadership
pagenum: 256; title: Wilson's Relations with Congress
pagenum: 258; title: Wilson as World Leader
pagenum: 261; label: Chapter 9
title: The Triumph of Conservative Republicanism
pagenum: 277; title: The Harding Era
pagenum: 279; title: The 'Silent' Politics of Calvin Coolidge
pagenum: 287; title: Herbert C. Hoover and the Great Depression
pagenum: 290; title: The Twentieth Amendment
pagenum: 296; label: Chapter 10
title: The Consolidation of the Modern Presidency: Franklin D. Roosevelt to Dwight D. Eisenhower
pagenum: 301; title: Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Modern Presidency
pagenum: 302; title: The Modern Presidency Sustained: Harry S. Truman and Dwight D. Eisenhower
pagenum: 322; label: Chapter 11
title: Personalizing the Presidency: John F. Kennedy to Jimmy Carter
pagenum: 350; title: John F. Kennedy and the Rise of the 'Personal Presidency'
pagenum: 351; title: Lyndon B. Johnson and Presidential Government
pagenum: 359; title: The Twenty-Fifth Amendment
pagenum: 366; title: The Presidency of Richard Nixon
pagenum: 369; title: Gerald R. Ford and the Post-Watergate Era
pagenum: 381; title: A President Named Jimmy
pagenum: 385; label: Chapter 12
title: A Restoration of Presidential Power?
pagenum: 396; title: Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush
pagenum: 396; title: The Reagan Revolution
pagenum: 396; title: A Reagan Court?
pagenum: 410; title: The Bush Presidency
pagenum: 417; label: Chapter 13
title: Bill Clinton and the Modern Presidency
pagenum: 430; title: The Election of 1992
pagenum: 431; title: The First Year of the Clinton Presidency
pagenum: 434; title: The 1994 Elections and the Restoration of Divided Government
pagenum: 438; title: The Comeback President
pagenum: 440; title: Balanced Budgets, Impeachment Politics, and the Limits of the Third Way
pagenum: 445; label: Chapter 14
title: George W. Bush and Unilateral Presidential Power
pagenum: 456; title: The 2000 Election
pagenum: 457; title: Bush v. Gore
pagenum: 459; title: The Early Months of the Bush Presidency
pagenum: 461; title: September 11 and the War on Terrorism
pagenum: 463; title: An Expanded Presidency
pagenum: 465; title: Bush and the Republican Party
pagenum: 469; title: Courts and Parties
pagenum: 474; title: Partnership and Unilateralism at the Twilight of the Bush Presidency
pagenum: 477; label: Chapter 15
title: Managing Alone: Barack Obama and the Dilemma of Modern Presidential Leadership
pagenum: 481; title: The 2008 Elections
pagenum: 483; title: The New Foundation and Partisan Rancor
pagenum: 484; title: We Can't Wait: Obama and the Administrative Presidency
pagenum: 490; title: Obama's Reelection and the Perils of Managing Alone
pagenum: 492; title: Obama, Partisanship, and the War on Terrorism
pagenum: 495; title: Barack Obama, the Modern Presidency, and American Democracy
pagenum: 499; label: Chapter 16
title: The Vice Presidency
pagenum: 507; title: The Founding Period
pagenum: 508; title: The Vice Presidency in the Nineteenth Century
pagenum: 511; title: Theodore Roosevelt to Harry S. Truman
pagenum: 514; title: The Modern Vice Presidency
pagenum: 518; title: Conclusion
pagenum: 532; title: Appendix
pagenum: 539; title: Constitution of the United States
pagenum: 541; title: U.S. Presidents and Vice Presidents
pagenum: 560; title: Summary of Presidential Elections, 1789-2012
pagenum: 563; title: Index
pagenum: 573