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Preface | p. xi |
The Constitutional Convention | p. 1 |
Antecedents | p. 2 |
The Constitutional Convention | p. 8 |
Creating the Presidency | p. 27 |
The Making of the Presidency: An Overview | p. 27 |
Number of the Executive | p. 30 |
Selection and Succession | p. 32 |
Term of Office | p. 35 |
Removal | p. 36 |
Institutional Separation from Congress | p. 39 |
Enumerated Powers | p. 41 |
The Vice Presidency | p. 55 |
Ratifying the Constitution | p. 59 |
Bringing the Constitutional Presidency to Life: George Washington and John Adams | p. 70 |
The Election of George Washington | p. 71 |
Making the Presidency Safe for Democracy | p. 73 |
Forming the Executive Branch | p. 75 |
Presidential ôSupremacyö and the Conduct of the Executive Branch | p. 77 |
Presidential Nonpartisanship and the Beginning of Party Conflict | p. 80 |
Washington's Retirement and the Jay Treaty: The Constitutional Crisis of 1796 | p. 87 |
The 1796 Election | p. 90 |
The Embattled Presidency of John Adams | p. 91 |
The Alien and Sedition Acts | p. 94 |
The Triumph of Jeffersonianism | p. 100 |
The ôRevolutionö of 1800 | p. 101 |
Jefferson's War with the Judiciary | p. 104 |
The Democratic-Republican Program and the Adjustment to Power | p. 105 |
The Limits of ôPopularö Leadership | p. 109 |
The Twelfth Amendment | p. 111 |
Jefferson's Mixed Legacy | p. 112 |
The Presidency of James Madison and the Rise of the House of Representatives | p. 113 |
The Presidencies of James Monroe and John Quincy Adams | p. 117 |
The Age of Jackson | p. 126 |
Jacksonian Democracy | p. 127 |
The Rise of the Party Convention | p. 130 |
Jackson's Struggle with Congress | p. 131 |
The Aftermath of the Bank Veto | p. 133 |
The Decline of the Cabinet | p. 134 |
The Limits of the Jacksonian Presidency | p. 136 |
Martin Van Buren and the Panic of 1837 | p. 139 |
The Jacksonian Presidency Sustained | p. 140 |
John Tyler and the Problem of Presidential Succession | p. 143 |
The Presidency of James K. Polk | p. 145 |
The Slavery Controversy and the Twilight of the Jacksonian Presidency | p. 150 |
The Presidency of Abraham Lincoln | p. 158 |
Lincoln and the Slavery Controversy | p. 160 |
The Election of 1860 | p. 162 |
Lincoln and Secession | p. 164 |
Lincoln's Wartime Measures | p. 166 |
The Emancipation Proclamation | p. 170 |
The Election of 1864 | p. 173 |
Lincoln's Legacy | p. 176 |
The Reaction against Presidential Power: Andrew Johnson to William McKinley | p. 181 |
Reconstruction and the Assault on Executive Authority | p. 183 |
The Impeachment of Andrew Johnson | p. 188 |
Ulysses S. Grant and the Abdication of Executive Power | p. 189 |
The Fight to Restore Presidential Power | p. 195 |
Congressional Government and the Prelude to a More Active Presidency | p. 205 |
Progressive Politics and Executive Power: The Presidencies of Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and Woodrow Wilson | p. 218 |
Theodore Roosevelt and the Expansion of Executive Power | p. 219 |
The Troubled Presidency of William Howard Taft | p. 234 |
Progressive Politics and the Elections of 1912 | p. 240 |
Woodrow Wilson's Theory of Executive Leadership | p. 243 |
Wilson and Party Reform | p. 245 |
The Art of Popular Leadership | p. 245 |
Wilson's Relations with Congress | p. 247 |
Wilson as World Leader | p. 250 |
The Triumph of Conservative Republicanism | p. 265 |
The Harding Era | p. 267 |
The ôSilentö Politics of Calvin Coolidge | p. 275 |
Herbert C. Hoover and the Great Depression | p. 278 |
The Twentieth Amendment | p. 283 |
The Consolidation of the Modern Presidency: Franklin D. Roosevelt to Dwight D. Eisenhower | p. 288 |
Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Modern Presidency | p. 289 |
The Modern Presidency Sustained | p. 307 |
Personalizing the Presidency | p. 333 |
John F. Kennedy and the Rise of the ôPersonal Presidencyö | p. 334 |
Lyndon B. Johnson and Presidential Government | p. 341 |
The Twenty-Fifth Amendment | p. 348 |
The Presidency of Richard Nixon | p. 351 |
Gerald R. Ford and the Post-Watergate Era | p. 363 |
A President Named Jimmy | p. 366 |
A Restoration of Presidential Power? | p. 377 |
The Reagan Revolution | p. 377 |
Reagan's Legacy and the Accession of George H. W. Bush | p. 391 |
The Bush Presidency | p. 397 |
Bill Clinton and the Modern Presidency | p. 410 |
The Election of 1992 | p. 411 |
The First Year of the Clinton Presidency | p. 414 |
The 1994 Elections and the Restoration of Divided Government | p. 418 |
The Comeback President | p. 420 |
Balanced Budgets, Impeachment Politics, and the Limits of the Third Way | p. 426 |
George W. Bush and Unilateral Presidential Power | p. 437 |
The 2000 Election | p. 438 |
Bush v. Gore | p. 440 |
The Early Months of the Bush Presidency | p. 442 |
September 11 and the War on Terrorism | p. 445 |
An Expanded Presidency | p. 446 |
Bush and the Republican Party | p. 451 |
Courts and Parties | p. 456 |
Barack Obama and the Dilemma of Modern Presidential Leadership | p. 462 |
The 2008 Elections | p. 464 |
Ideology, Partisan Politics, and the Democratic Party | p. 465 |
The New Foundation and Partisan Rancor | p. 469 |
Obama, Partisanship, and the War on Terrorism | p. 473 |
Obama and the Administrative Presidency | p. 475 |
The 2010 Midterm Elections | p. 478 |
Barack Obama, the Modern Presidency, and American Democracy | p. 479 |
The Vice Presidency | p. 486 |
The Founding Period | p. 487 |
The Vice Presidency in the Nineteenth Century | p. 490 |
Theodore Roosevelt to Harry S. Truman | p. 493 |
The Modern Vice Presidency | p. 497 |
Conclusion | p. 510 |
Appendix | p. 515 |
Constitution of the United States | p. 517 |
U.S. Presidents and Vice Presidents | p. 536 |
Summary of Presidential Elections, 1789-2008 | p. 539 |
Index | p. 549 |
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