Preface | p. xi |
The Constitutional Convention | p. 1 |
Antecedents | p. 2 |
The Constitutional Convention | p. 8 |
Creating the Presidency | p. 26 |
The Making of the Presidency: An Overview | p. 26 |
Number of the Executive | p. 29 |
Selection and Succession | p. 31 |
Term of Office | p. 34 |
Removal | p. 35 |
Institutional Separation from Congress | p. 38 |
Enumerated Powers | p. 40 |
The Vice Presidency | p. 54 |
Ratifying the Constitution | p. 57 |
Implementing the Constitutional Presidency: George Washington and John Adams | p. 68 |
The Election of George Washington | p. 68 |
Making the Presidency Safe for Democracy | p. 71 |
Forming the Executive Branch | p. 73 |
Presidential "Supremacy" and the Conduct of the Executive Branch | p. 75 |
Presidential Nonpartisanship and the Beginning of Party Conflict | p. 78 |
Washington's Retirement and the Jay Treaty: The Constitutional Crisis of 1796 | p. 84 |
The 1796 Election | p. 87 |
The Embattled Presidency of John Adams | p. 88 |
The Alien and Sedition Acts | p. 91 |
The Triumph of Jeffersonianism | p. 97 |
The "Revolution" of 1800 | p. 98 |
Jefferson's War with the Judiciary | p. 101 |
The Democratic-Republican Program and the Adjustment to Power | p. 102 |
The Limits of "Popular" Leadership | p. 106 |
The Twelfth Amendment | p. 107 |
Jefferson's Mixed Legacy | p. 108 |
The Presidency of James Madison and the Rise of the House of Representatives | p. 109 |
The Presidencies of James Monroe and John Quincy Adams | p. 112 |
The Age of Jackson | p. 121 |
Jacksonian Democracy | p. 122 |
The Rise of the Party Convention | p. 125 |
Jackson's Struggle with Congress | p. 125 |
The Aftermath of the Bank Veto | p. 127 |
The Decline of the Cabinet | p. 129 |
The Limits of the Jacksonian Presidency | p. 130 |
Martin Van Buren and the Panic of 1837 | p. 133 |
The Jacksonian Presidency Sustained | p. 134 |
John Tyler and the Problem of Presidential Succession | p. 137 |
The Presidency of James K. Polk | p. 140 |
The Slavery Controversy and the Twilight of the Jacksonian Presidency | p. 143 |
The Presidency of Abraham Lincoln | p. 151 |
Lincoln and the Slavery Controversy | p. 153 |
The Election of 1860 | p. 155 |
Lincoln and Secession | p. 157 |
Lincoln's Wartime Measures | p. 158 |
The Emancipation Proclamation | p. 163 |
The Election of 1864 | p. 165 |
Lincoln's Legacy | p. 168 |
The Reaction against Presidential Power: Andrew Johnson to William McKinley | p. 173 |
Reconstruction and the Assault on Executive Authority | p. 174 |
The Impeachment of Andrew Johnson | p. 178 |
Ulysses S. Grant and the Abdication of Executive Power | p. 180 |
The Fight to Restore Presidential Power | p. 185 |
Congressional Government and the Prelude to a More Active Presidency | p. 195 |
Progressive Politics and Executive Power: The Presidencies of Theodore Roosevelt and William Howard Taft | p. 208 |
Theodore Roosevelt and the Expansion of Executive Power | p. 210 |
The Troubled Presidency of William Howard Taft | p. 226 |
Woodrow Wilson and the Defense of Popular Leadership | p. 237 |
Woodrow Wilson's Theory of Executive Leadership | p. 239 |
Wilson and Party Reform | p. 241 |
The Art of Popular Leadership | p. 242 |
Wilson's Relations with Congress | p. 243 |
Wilson as World Leader | p. 247 |
The Triumph of Conservative Republicanism | p. 258 |
The Harding Era | p. 260 |
The "Silent" Politics of Calvin Coolidge | p. 267 |
Herbert C. Hoover and the Great Depression | p. 271 |
The Twentieth Amendment | p. 275 |
The Consolidation of the Modern Presidency: Franklin D. Roosevelt to Dwight D. Eisenhower | p. 280 |
Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Modern Presidency | p. 281 |
The Modern Presidency Sustained: Harry S. Truman and Dwight D. Eisenhower | p. 298 |
Personalizing the Presidency: John F. Kennedy to Jimmy Carter | p. 323 |
John F. Kennedy and the Rise of the "Personal Presidency" | p. 324 |
Lyndon B. Johnson and Presidential Government | p. 331 |
The Twenty-fifth Amendment | p. 337 |
The Presidency of Richard Nixon | p. 340 |
Gerald R. Ford and the Post-Watergate Era | p. 352 |
A President Named Jimmy | p. 355 |
A Restoration of Presidential Power? Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush | p. 366 |
The Reagan Revolution | p. 366 |
Reagan's Legacy and the Accession of George Bush | p. 379 |
The Bush Presidency | p. 386 |
Bill Clinton and the Modern Presidency | p. 398 |
The Election of 1992 | p. 399 |
The First Year of the Clinton Presidency | p. 401 |
The 1994 Election and the Restoration of Divided Government | p. 406 |
The Comeback President | p. 408 |
Balanced Budgets, Impeachment Politics, and the Limits of the "Third Way" | p. 413 |
George W. Bush and Beyond | p. 423 |
The 2000 Election | p. 424 |
Bush v. Gore | p. 426 |
The Early Days of the Bush Presidency | p. 428 |
September 11 and the War on Terrorism | p. 431 |
An Expanded Presidency | p. 433 |
Bush and the Republican Party | p. 437 |
The Modern Presidency in the Twenty-first Century | p. 441 |
The Vice Presidency | p. 451 |
The Founding Period | p. 452 |
The Vice Presidency in the Nineteenth Century | p. 455 |
Theodore Roosevelt to Harry S. Truman | p. 458 |
The Modern Vice Presidency | p. 461 |
Conclusion | p. 474 |
Appendix | p. 479 |
Constitution of the United States | p. 481 |
U.S. Presidents and Vice Presidents | p. 500 |
Summary of Presidential Elections, 1789-2004 | p. 503 |
Index | p. 513 |
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