Recapturing the Oval Office
Subtitle: new historical approaches to the American presidency
By: edited by Brian Balogh and Bruce J. Schulman
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Ithaca
Language: eng
Number of pages: 311
ISBN-13: 9780801456572; 9780801453724
Subjects: Politics and government; Presidents; Executive power; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : confessions of a presidential assassin / Brian Balogh; title: The unsettled state of presidential history / Stephen Skowronek; title: Personal dynamics and presidential transitions : the case of Roosevelt and Truman / Frank Costigliola; title: Narrator-in-chief : presidents and the politics of economic crisis from FDR to Obama / Alice O'Connor; title: The Reagan devolution : movement conservatives and the right's days of rage, 1988-1994 / Robert O. Self; title: There will be oil : presidents, wildcat religion, and the culture wars of pipeline politics / Darren Dochuk; title: Ike's world : in search of ideology in the Eisenhower presidenty / William I. Hitchcock; title: Black appointees, political legitimacy, and the American presidency / N.D.B. Connolly; title: Presidents and the media / Susan J. Douglas; title: The making of the celebrity presidency / Kathryn Cramer Brownell; title: Stand by me : coalitions and presidential power from a cross-national perspective / Cathie Jo Martin; title: Taking the long view : presidents in a system stacked against them / Daniel J. Galvin; title: American presidential authority and economic expertise since World War II / Michael A. Bernstein; title: The changing presidential politics of disaster : from Coolidge to Nixon / Gareth Davies; title: Conclusion : the perils and prospects of presidential history / Bruce J. Schulman.