How Governors Built The Modern American Presidency

Author : Saladin M. Ambar
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812206231
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book How Governors Built the Modern American Presidency written by Saladin M. Ambar and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2012-04-17 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A governor's mansion is often the last stop for politicians who plan to move into the White House. Before Barack Obama was elected president of the United States, four of his last five predecessors had been governors. Executive experience at the state level informs individual presidencies, and, as Saladin M. Ambar argues, the actions of governors-turned-presidents changed the nature of the presidency itself long ago. How Governors Built the Modern American Presidency is the first book to explicitly credit governors with making the presidency what it is today. By examining the governorships of such presidential stalwarts as Grover Cleveland, Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, and Franklin D. Roosevelt, political scientist Ambar shows how gubernatorial experience made the difference in establishing modern presidential practice. The book also delves into the careers of Wisconsin's Bob La Follette and California's Hiram Johnson, demonstrating how these governors reshaped the presidency through their activism. As Ambar reminds readers, governors as far back as Samuel J. Tilden of New York, who ran against Rutherford Hayes in the controversial presidential election of 1876, paved the way for a more assertive national leadership. Ambar explodes the idea that the modern presidency began after 1945, instead placing its origins squarely in the Progressive Era. This innovative study uncovers neglected aspects of the evolution of the nation's executive branch, placing American governors at the heart of what the presidency has become—for better or for worse.

Author : Sidney M. Milkis
Publisher : CQ Press
ISBN 13 : 1483385701
Total Pages : 797 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The American Presidency written by Sidney M. Milkis and published by CQ Press. This book was released on 2015-03-03 with total page 797 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The American Presidency examines the constitutional foundation of the executive office and the social, economic, political, and international forces that have reshaped it along with the influence individual presidents have had. Authors Sidney Milkis and Michael Nelson look at each presidency broadly, focusing on how individual presidents have sought to navigate the complex and ever-changing terrain of the executive office and revealing the major developments that launched a modern presidency at the dawn of the twentieth century. By connecting presidential conduct to the defining eras of American history and the larger context of politics and government in the United States, this award-winning book offers perspective and insight on the limitations and possibilities of presidential power. In this Seventh Edition, marking the 25th anniversary of The American Presidency’s publication, the authors add new scholarship to every chapter, reexamine the end of George W. Bush’s tenure, assess President Obama’s first term in office, and explore Obama’s second term.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Hidden Prince written by and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Before 1876, no American president had been elected directly from a statehouse. By 1932 five had, and a would-be sixth, Theodore Roosevelt, came to the office through a line of succession made possible by his successful tenure as Albany's executive. While the modern presidency is increasingly recognized as owing its origins to the administrations of Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson, an essential common denominator of the two has largely been ignored. The examples of Roosevelt and Wilson - and their progeny - as state executives, have been disconnected from the larger story of how moderns reconceived the office of President. Moreover, the American governorship's contributions as an institution that helped redefine newly emerging Progressive Era notions of executive power, has been understudied, and in the main, undervalued. When considering the presidency's shift toward legislative and party leadership, and the changed communicative avenues traversed by modern presidents, it is of great value to first see these phenomena altered by executives at the state level. From Grover Cleveland to Franklin Roosevelt, a progressive line of governors and governor-presidents helped construct an executive-centered governing philosophy that has uniquely stamped what we have come to know as the modern presidency. This dissertation explores how that construction took place, and what the nature of its implications are for both the field of presidential studies and American democracy. In drawing comparisons across time through case studies of the era's governorships (1876-1932), this dissertation examines how four crucial variables of the modern presidency - legislative and party leadership, press and media initiative, and executive philosophy - were shepherded into executive practice largely through Progressive Era governors and governor-presidents whose constitutional vision and practices defied traditional conceptions of the office.

Author : James P. Pfiffner
Publisher : Forge Books
ISBN 13 : 9780312075064
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Modern Presidency written by James P. Pfiffner and published by Forge Books. This book was released on 1994 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE MODERN PRESIDENCY, Fifth Edition, is a concise, accessible and sophisticated text on the presidency. Case studies-a major strength of this short text-illustrate important aspects of presidential action and decision-making. Written by a top scholar on the presidency, and thoroughly updated through 2006 to include the presidency of George W. Bush, the text deals not only with presidents as individuals, but also with the large institutions that make up the modern presidency.

Author : Stephen Graubard
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141042907
Total Pages : 807 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Presidents written by Stephen Graubard and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2009-05-07 with total page 807 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this magisterial examination of the Presidency over the course of the 20th Century, the author explores the history of the world's greatest elective office and the role each incumbent has played in changing the scope of its powers. Using individual presidential portraits of each of the presidents of the past century Graubard asks, and answers, a wide variety of crucial questions about each President. What intellectual, social and political assets did they bring to the White House, and how quickly did they deplete or mortgage that capital? How well did they cope with crises, foreign and domestic? How much attention did they pay to their election pledges after they were elected? How did they use the media, old and new? Above all, how did they conduct themselves in office and what legacy did they leave to their successors? Graubard provides original analysis in each case, and reaches many surprising conclusions.

Author : Clinton Rossiter
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P
ISBN 13 : 9780156055987
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The American Presidency written by Clinton Rossiter and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P. This book was released on 1960 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : William G. Howell
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691165688
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Thinking About the Presidency written by William G. Howell and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2015-03-22 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How the search for power defines the American presidential office All American presidents, past and present, have cared deeply about power—acquiring, protecting, and expanding it. While individual presidents obviously have other concerns, such as shaping policy or building a legacy, the primacy of power considerations—exacerbated by expectations of the presidency and the inadequacy of explicit powers in the Constitution—sets presidents apart from other political actors. Thinking about the Presidency explores presidents' preoccupation with power. Distinguished presidential scholar William Howell looks at the key aspects of executive power—political and constitutional origins, philosophical underpinnings, manifestations in contemporary political life, implications for political reform, and looming influences over the standards to which we hold those individuals elected to America's highest office. Howell shows that an appetite for power may not inform the original motivations of those who seek to become president. Rather, this need is built into the office of the presidency itself—and quickly takes hold of whoever bears the title of Chief Executive. In order to understand the modern presidency, and the degrees to which a president succeeds or fails, the acquisition, protection, and expansion of power in a president's political life must be recognized—in policy tools and legislative strategies, the posture taken before the American public, and the disregard shown to those who would counsel modesty and deference within the White House. Thinking about the Presidency assesses how the search for and defense of presidential powers informs nearly every decision made by the leader of the nation. In a new preface, Howell reflects on presidential power during the presidency of Barack Obama.

Author : Joseph Ernest Kallenbach
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 648 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The American Chief Executive written by Joseph Ernest Kallenbach and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 648 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Stephen Richards Graubard
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780713996180
Total Pages : 927 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Presidents written by Stephen Richards Graubard and published by . This book was released on 2005-01 with total page 927 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this magisterial examination of the Presidency over the course of the 20th Century, the author explores the history of the world's greatest elective office and the role each incumbent has played in changing the scope of its powers. Using individual presidential portraits of each of the presidents of the past century Graubard asks, and answers, a wide variety of crucial questions about each President. What intellectual, social and political assets did they bring to the White House, and how quickly did they deplete or mortgage that capital? How well did they cope with crises, foreign and domestic? How much attention did they pay to their election pledges after they were elected? How did they use the media, old and new? Above all, how did they conduct themselves in office and what legacy did they leave to their successors? Graubard provides original analysis in each case, and reaches many surprising conclusions.

Author : Sidney M. Milkis
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 508 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The American Presidency written by Sidney M. Milkis and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive one-volume history of the presidency.