The American Presidency

by Milkis, Sidney M.; Nelson, Michael

• ISBN13: 9781608712816
• ISBN10: 1608712818
• Edition: 6th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-07-06
• Publisher: Cq Pr

Summary

Starting from the inception of the office, The American Presidency examines the constitutional precepts of the presidency and the social, economic, political, and international factors that have continued to shape it ever since. In this revised and updated sixth edition, Milkis and Nelson update all chapters in light of new scholarship and include the end of Bush's tenure, and in a new chapter, explore Obama's first two years in office.Each presidency is treated succinctly, with attention to how individual presidents shaped the executive, conveying a developmental arc of the modern presidency. By emphasizing patterns of presidential conduct, this award-winning book offers perspective on the expansion of presidential powers over the years.

Table of Contents

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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