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new historical approaches to the American presidency
Introduction : confessions of a presidential assassin / Brian Balogh -- 1. The unsettled state of presidential history / Stephen Skowronek -- 2. Personal dynamics and presidential transitions : the case of Roosevelt and Truman / Frank Costigliola -- 3. Narrator in chief : presidents and the politics of economic crisis from FDR to Barack Obama / Alice O'Connor -- 4. The Reagan devolution : movement conservatives and the right's days of rage, 1988-1994 / Robert O. Self -- 5. There will be oil : presidents, wildcat religion, and the culture wars of pipeline politics / Darren Dochuk -- 6. Ike's world : ideology and power in Eisenhower's national strategy / William Hitchcock -- 7. Black appointees, political legitimacy, and the American presidency / N.D.B. Connolly -- 8. Presidents and the media / Susan J. Douglas -- 9. The making of the celebrity president / Kathryn Cramer Brownell -- 10. Stand by me : coalitions and presidential power from a cross-national perspective / Cathie Jo Martin -- 11. Taking the long view : presidents in a system stacked against them / Daniel J. Galvin -- 12. American presidential authority and economic expertise since World War II / Michael A. Bernstein -- 13. The changing presidential politics of disaster from Coolidge to Nixon / Gareth Davies -- Conclusion : the perils and prospects of presidential history / Bruce J. Schulman.
edited by Brian Balogh and Bruce Schulman.
Includes bibliographical references and index.