The American Presidency

by Milkis, Sidney M.

• ISBN13: 9781568027395
• ISBN10: 1568027397
• Edition: 4th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-01-01
• Publisher: Cq Pr

Table of Contents

Preface	xi
The Constitutional Convention	1	(24)
Antecedents	2	(5)
The Constitutional Convention	7	(18)
Creating the Presidency	25	(42)
The Making of the Presidency: An Overview	25	(3)
Number of the Executive	28	(2)
Selection and Succession	30	(3)
Term of Office	33	(1)
Removal	34	(2)
Institutional Separation from Congress	36	(3)
Enumerated Powers	39	(13)
The Vice Presidency	52	(4)
Ratifying the Constitution	56	(11)
Implementing the Constitutional Presidency: George Washington and John Adams	67	(29)
The Election of George Washington	68	(2)
Making the Presidency Safe for Democracy	70	(2)
Forming the Executive Branch	72	(2)
Presidential ``Supremacy'' and the Conduct of the Executive Branch	74	(3)
Presidential Nonpartisanship and the Beginning of Party Conflict	77	(6)
Washington's Retirement and the Jay Treaty: The Constitutional Crisis of 1796	83	(3)
The 1796 Election	86	(1)
The Embattled Presidency of John Adams	87	(3)
The Alien and Sedition Acts	90	(6)
The Triumph of Jeffersonianism	96	(22)
The ``Revolution'' of 1800	97	(3)
Jefferson's War with the Judiciary	100	(1)
The Democratic-Republican Program and the Adjustment to Power	101	(3)
The Limits of ``Popular'' Leadership	104	(1)
The Twelfth Amendment	105	(2)
Jefferson's Mixed Legacy	107	(1)
The Presidency of James Madison and the Rise of the House of Representatives	108	(3)
The Presidencies of James Monroe and John Quincy Adams	111	(7)
The Age of Jackson	118	(29)
Jacksonian Democracy	119	(3)
The Rise of the Party Convention	122	(1)
Jackson's Struggle with Congress	122	(2)
The Aftermath of the Bank Veto	124	(2)
The Decline of the Cabinet	126	(1)
The Limits of the Jacksonian Presidency	127	(3)
Martin Van Buren and the Panic of 1837	130	(1)
The Jacksonian Presidency Sustained	131	(3)
John Tyler and the Problem of Presidential Succession	134	(2)
The Presidency of James K. Polk	136	(4)
The Slavery Controversy and the Twilight of the Jacksonian Presidency	140	(7)
The Presidency of Abraham Lincoln	147	(20)
Lincoln and the Slavery Controversy	149	(2)
The Election of 1860	151	(1)
Lincoln and Secession	152	(2)
Lincoln's Wartime Measures	154	(4)
The Emancipation Proclamation	158	(2)
The Elections of 1864	160	(3)
Lincoln's Legacy	163	(4)
The Reaction against Presidential Power: Andrew Johnson to William McKinley	167	(1)
Reconstruction and the Assault on Executive Authority	168	(4)
The Impeachment of Andrew Johnson	172	(2)
Ulysses S. Grant and the Abdication of Executive Power	174	(5)
The Fight to Restore Presidential Power	179	(10)
Congressional Government and the Prelude to a More Active Presidency	189	(11)
Progressive Politics and Executive Power: The Presidencies of Theodore Roosevelt and William Howard Taft	200	(29)
Theodore Roosevelt and the Expansion of Executive Power	202	(17)
The Troubled Presidency of William Howard Taft	219	(10)
Woodrow Wilson and the Defense of Popular Leadership	229	(20)
Woodrow Wilson's Theory of Executive Leadership	231	(2)
Wilson and Party Reform	233	(1)
The Art of Popular Leadership	233	(2)
Wilson's Relations with Congress	235	(3)
Wilson As World Leader	238	(11)
The Triumph of Conservative Republicanism	249	(21)
The Harding Era	250	(7)
The ``Silent'' Politics of Calvin Coolidge	257	(4)
Herbert C. Hoover and the Great Depression	261	(4)
The Twentieth Amendment	265	(5)
The Consolidation of the Modern Presidency: Franklin D. Roosevelt to Dwight D. Eisenhower	270	(39)
Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Modern Presidency	271	(15)
The Modern Presidency Sustained: Harry S. Truman and Dwight D. Eisenhower	286	(23)
Personalizing the Presidency: John F. Kennedy to Jimmy Carter	309	(41)
John F. Kennedy and the Rise of the ``Personal Presidency''	310	(7)
Lyndon B. Johnson and Presidential Government	317	(6)
The Twenty-Fifth Amendment	323	(3)
The Presidency of Richard Nixon	326	(11)
Gerald R. Ford and the Post-Watergate Era	337	(3)
A President Named Jimmy	340	(10)
A Restoration of Presidential Power? Ronald Reagan and George Bush	350	(31)
The Reagan Revolution	350	(13)
The Reagan Legacy and the Accession of George Bush	363	(6)
The Bush Presidency	369	(12)
Bill Clinton and the Modern Presidency	381	(24)
The Elections of 1992	382	(2)
The First Year of the Clinton Presidency	384	(5)
The 1994 Elections and the Restoration of Divided Government	389	(1)
The Comeback President	390	(5)
Balanced Budgets, Impeachment Politics, and the Limits of the ``Third Way''	395	(10)
George W. Bush and Beyond	405	(19)
The Election of 2000	405	(4)
Bush vs. Gore	409	(2)
The Early Days of the Bush Presidency	411	(3)
September 11 and the War on Terrorism	414	(5)
The Elections of 2002	419	(5)
The Vice Presidency	424	(27)
The Founding Period	425	(3)
The Vice Presidency in the Nineteenth Century	428	(3)
Theodore Roosevelt to Harry S. Truman	431	(3)
The Modern Vice Presidency	434	(12)
Conclusion	446	(5)
Appendix	451	(32)
Constitution of the United States	453	(19)
U.S. Presidents and Vice Presidents	472	(3)
Summary of Presidential Elections, 1789--2000	475	(8)
Index	483