Recapturing the Oval Office : : New Historical Approaches to the American Presidency /

Recapturing the Oval Office : : New Historical Approaches to the American Presidency / / ed. by Bruce J. Schulman, Brian Balogh.

Several generations of historians figuratively abandoned the Oval Office as the bastion of out-of-fashion stories of great men. And now, decades later, the historical analysis of the American presidency remains on the outskirts of historical scholarship, even as policy and political history have reb...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
MitwirkendeR:
Balogh, Brian,
Bernstein, Bruce,
Bernstein, Michael,
Connolly, N. D. B.,
Costigliola, Frank,
Cramer Brownell, Kathryn,
Davies, Gareth,
Dochuk, Darren,
Douglas, Susan,
Galvin, Daniel,
Hitchcock, William,
Jo Martin, Cathie,
O'Connor, Alice,
Self, Robert O.,
Skowronek, Stephen,
HerausgeberIn:
Balogh, Brian,
Schulman, Bruce J.,
Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2015]
©2015
Year of Publication:2015
Language:English
Series:Miller Center of Public Affairs Books
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Physical Description:1 online resource (320 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction: Confessions of a Presidential Assassin
  • Part I. Balancing Agency and Structure
  • 1. The Unsettled State of Presidential History
  • 2. Personal Dynamics and Presidential Transitions: The Case of Roosevelt and Truman
  • 3. Narrator-in-Chief: Presidents and the Politics of Economic Crisis from FDR to Obama
  • Part II. The Social and Cultural Landscape Presidents Confront
  • 4. The Reagan Devolution: Movement Conservatives and the Right's Days of Rage, 1988-1994
  • 5. There Will Be Oil: Presidents, Wildcat Religion, and the Culture Wars of Pipeline Politics
  • 6. Ike's World: In Search of Ideology in the Eisenhower Presidency
  • 7. Black Appointees, Political Legitimacy, and the American Presidency
  • 8. Presidents and the Media
  • 9. The Making of the Celebrity Presidency
  • Part III. The Presidency and Political Structure
  • 10. Stand by Me: Coalitions and Presidential Power from a Cross-National Perspective
  • 11. Taking the Long View: Presidents in a System Stacked against Them
  • 12. American Presidential Authority and Economic Expertise since World War II
  • 13. The Changing Presidential Politics of Disaster: From Coolidge to Nixon
  • Conclusion: The Perils and Prospects of Presidential History
  • Notes
  • List of Contributors
  • Index

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