The Presidents and the Constitution : : A Living History / / ed. by Ken Gormley.

• MitwirkendeR: Ambar, Saladin M.,; Bader, William D.,; Barrett, John Q.,; Bullion, John L.,; Crouch, Jeffrey,; Damms, Richard V.,; Ellis, Richard J.,; Entin, Jonathan L.,; Finkelman, Paul,; Fisher, Louis,; Gerhardt, Michael J.,; Giglio, James N.,; Gormley, Ken,; Graber, Mark A.,; Han, Lori Cox,; Hart, Gary,; Horrocks, Thomas A.,; Johnson, John W.,; Kaufman, Scott,; Ketcham, Ralph,; Kleinerman, Benjamin A.,; Kutler, Stanley,; Les Benedict, Michael,; Marszalek, John F.,; Pederson, William D.,; Perry, Barbara A.,; Rishel, Joseph F.,; Robenalt, James D.,; Romero, Francine Sanders,; Ross, Michael A.,; Shribman, David Marks,; Spetter, Allan B.,; Spitzer, Robert J.,; Starr, Kenneth W.,; Stephenson, Donald Grier,; Sutton, Thomas C.,; Williams, Frank J.,; Yurs, Dale E. P.,
• HerausgeberIn: Gormley, Ken,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2016]; ©2016
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

Shines new light on America's brilliant constitutional and presidential history, from George Washington to Barack Obama. In this sweepingly ambitious volume, the nation’s foremost experts on the American presidency and the U.S. Constitution join together to tell the intertwined stories of how each American president has confronted and shaped the Constitution. Each occupant of the office—the first president to the forty-fourth—has contributed to the story of the Constitution through the decisions he made and the actions he took as the nation’s chief executive.By examining presidential history through the lens of constitutional conflicts and challenges, The Presidents and the Constitution offers a fresh perspective on how the Constitution has evolved in the hands of individual presidents. It delves into key moments in American history, from Washington’s early battles with Congress to the advent of the national security presidency under George W. Bush and Barack Obama, to reveal the dramatic historical forces that drove these presidents to action. Historians and legal experts, including Richard Ellis, Gary Hart, Stanley Kutler and Kenneth Starr, bring the Constitution to life, and show how the awesome powers of the American presidency have been shapes by the men who were granted them. The book brings to the fore the overarching constitutional themes that span this country’s history and ties together presidencies in a way never before accomplished.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction: An Unfinished Presidency -- Part I The Founding Era -- 1 George Washington -- 2 John Adams -- 3 Thomas Jefferson -- 4 James Madison -- 5 James Monroe -- 6 John Quincy Adams -- Part II The Age of Jackson -- 7 Andrew Jackson -- 8 Martin Van Buren -- 9 William Henry Harrison -- 10 John Tyler -- 11 James K. Polk -- Part III The Pre–Civil War Era -- 12 Zachary Taylor -- 13 Millard Fillmore -- 14 Franklin Pierce -- 15 James Buchanan -- Part IV Civil War and Reconstruction -- 16 Abraham Lincoln -- 17 Andrew Johnson -- 18 Ulysses S. Grant -- Part V The Gilded Age -- 19 Rutherford B. Hayes -- 20 James A. Garfield -- 21 Chester A. Arthur -- 22 Grover Cleveland: First Term: 1884–1888 -- 23 Benjamin Harrison -- 24 Grover Cleveland: Second Term: 1892–1896 -- 25 William McKinley -- Part VI The Progressive Era -- 26 Theodore Roosevelt -- 27 William Howard Taft -- Part VII World War I and the Great Depression -- 28 Woodrow Wilson -- 29 Warren G. Harding -- 30 Calvin Coolidge -- 31 Herbert Hoover -- Part VIII The New Deal and World War II -- 32 Franklin Delano Roosevelt -- 33 Harry S. Truman -- Part IX The Civil Rights Era -- 34 Dwight D. Eisenhower -- 35 John F. Kennedy -- 36 Lyndon B. Johnson -- Part X The Watergate Era and Reform -- 37 Richard M. Nixon -- 38 Gerald R. Ford -- 39 Jimmy Carter -- Part XI New Conservatives, New Democrats, and Polarization -- 40 Ronald Reagan -- 41 George H. W. Bush -- George H. W. Bush Lori Cox Han -- Part XII National Security Era: Post-9/ 11 -- 43 George W. Bush -- 44 Barack Obama -- Conclusion: An Evolving American Presidency -- Acknowledgments -- About the Contributors -- Photo Credits -- Index