The challenge of the American presidency : Washington to Obama

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The challenge of the American presidency : Washington to Obama

Philip Abbott

Lexington Books, c2011

2nd ed

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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According to Niccolo Machiavelli, leaders must always be prepared for unexpected change, sometimes rapidly and in violent and dramatic forms, in order to retain control of their fate. Philip Abbott applies this insight to U. S. presidents. He identifies six major periods of change in the political economic and international sphere and examines how presidents from Washington to Obama responded to new challenges. How presidents are elected, how they are expected to govern, how the economy functions, and what place the nation holds in the international system create general rules that presidents must acknowledge until an alteration in one or more of these patterns changes. The author maintains that, in the American presidency, the difference between success and failure rests with how effectively a president reacts to the changes within these systems during his term in office. Organized chronologically, this text focuses on high risk decisions presidents have made from George Washington's issuance of the Neutrality Proclamation to Obama's promotion of health care legislation. This edition includes new material on the presidencies of George W. Bush and Barack Obama as well as updated bibliographical entries. The Challenge of the American Presidency will be of interest to those who teach courses in political science, history and American Studies as well as to the those who are interested in assessing and comparing U. S. presidents.

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Part 1 1. Introduction Chapter 2 Machiavelli's Advice Chapter 3 The Invention of the Presidency Chapter 4 The Six Presidencies Chapter 5 Summary and Comment Chapter 6 Bibliographic Essay Part 7 2. The Founding Presidency (1789-1829) Chapter 8 Introduction Chapter 9 George Washington Chapter 10 John Adams Chapter 11 Thomas Jefferson Chapter 12 James Madison Chapter 13 James Monroe Chapter 14 John Quincy Adams Chapter 15 Summary and Comment Chapter 16 Bibliographic Essay Part 17 3. The Partisan Presidency (1829-1865) Chapter 18 Introduction Chapter 19 Andrew Jackson Chapter 20 Martin Van Buren Chapter 21 William Henry Harrison and John Tyler Chapter 22 James K. Polk Chapter 23 Zachary Taylor and Millard Fillmore Chapter 24 Franklin Pierce Chapter 25 Abraham Lincoln Chapter 26 Summary and Comment Chapter 27 Bibliographic Essay Part 28 4. The Eclipsed Presidency (1865-1897) Chapter 29 Introduction Chapter 30 Andrew Johnson Chapter 31 Ulysses S. Grant Chapter 32 Rutherford B. Hayes Chapter 33 James A. Garfield and Chester Arthur Chapter 34 Grover Cleveland Chapter 35 Benjamin Harrison Chapter 36 Summary and Comment Chapter 37 Bibliographic Essay Part 38 5. The Modern Presidency (1897-1945) Chapter 39 Introduction Chapter 40 William McKinley Chapter 41 Theodore Roosevelt Chapter 42 William Howard Taft Chapter 43 Warren G. Harding Chapter 44 Calvin Coolidge Chapter 45 Herbert Hoover Chapter 46 Franklin D. Roosevelt Chapter 47 Summary and Comment Chapter 48 Bibliographic Essay Part 49 6. The Cold War Presidency (1945-1993) Chapter 50 Introduction Chapter 51 Harry S. Truman Chapter 52 Dwight D. Eisenhower Chapter 53 John F. Kennedy Chapter 54 Lyndon B. Johnson Chapter 55 Richard M. Nixon Chapter 56 Gerald Ford Chapter 57 Jimmy Carter Chapter 58 Ronald Reagan Chapter 59 George H. W. Bush Chapter 60 Summary and Comment Chapter 61 Bibliographic Essay Part 62 7. The Post-Modern Presidency (1993- ) Chapter 63 Introduction Chapter 64 Bill Clinton Chapter 65 George W. Bush Chapter 66 Barack Obama Chapter 67 Summary and Comment Chapter 68 Bibliographic Essay

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