Presidential leadership in feeble times : explaining executive power in the Gilded Age /
"Do presidents matter for America's economic performance? We tend to stereotype Gilded Age presidents as weak. We also assume that the American people were intellectually misguided about the economy and the government's role in it. And we generally dismiss the Gilded Age macro-economy...
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Oxford University Press,
[2024]
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Table of Contents:
- Cover
- Presidential Leadership in Feeble Times
- Copyright
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- A Note on Abbreviations, Data, and Sources
- 1. Introduction: Presidential Leadership and the Gilded Age Economy
- 2. The Puzzle
- 3. Prelude: The Civil War
- Interlude: Into the 1870s
- 4. Ulysses S. Grant, First Term: "A Great Soldier Might Be a Baby Politician," 1869-1873
- 5. Ulysses S. Grant, Second Term: Panic, Depression, and the Dawn of the Gilded Age, 1873-1877
- 6. Rutherford B. Hayes and the Great Economic Boom, 1877-1881
- Interlude: Into the 1880s
- 7. James A. Garfield and the Economy of 1881
- 8. Chester Arthur and the Smoldering Depression of 1881-1885
- 9. Grover Cleveland: Strict Constitutionalism and the Challenge of Recession, 1885-1889
- Interlude: Into the 1890s
- 10. Benjamin Harrison, Patriot and Partisan: Planting the Seeds of Crisis, 1889-1893
- 11. Grover Cleveland Returns: The Great Depression of 1893-1897
- 12. William McKinley and the Developmental State, 1897-1901
- 13. Conclusions
- Appendix: Estimating Presidential Performance- Data, Sources, and Methods
- Notes
- References
- Index