Recapturing the Oval Office : new historical approaches to the American presidency /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Balogh, Brian (Editor), Schulman, Bruce J. (Editor)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Ithaca, New York : Cornell University Press, 2015.
Subjects:	Presidents > United States > History > 20th century. Executive power > United States > History > 20th century. United States > Politics and government > 20th century.

Table of Contents:

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.