The American presidency
Subtitle: origins and development, 1776-2007
By: Sidney M. Milkis, Michael Nelson
Contributors: Nelson, Michael, 1949-
Edition: 5th ed
Publisher: CQ Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 530
ISBN-13: 9780872893368
Subjects: Presidents -- United States -- History; Executive power -- United States -- History; Constitutional history -- United States; United States -- Politics and government
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
Table of contents: title: The Constitutional Convention; title: Creating the presidency; title: Implementing the constitutional presidency : George Washington and John Adams; title: The triumph of Jeffersonianism; title: The age of Jackson; title: The presidency of Abraham Lincoln; title: The reaction against presidential power : Andrew Johnson to William Mckinley; title: Progressive politics and executive power : the presidencies of Theodore Roosevelt and William Howard Taft; title: Woodrow Wilson and the defense of popular leadership; title: The triumph of conservative republicanism; title: The consolidation of the modern presidency : Franklin D. Roosevelt to Dwight D. Eisenhower; title: Personalizing the presidency : John F. Kennedy to Jimmy Carter; title: A restoration of presidential power? Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush; title: Bill Clinton and the modern presidency; title: George W. Bush and beyond; title: The vice presidency