George W. Bush : Evaluating the President at Midterm

by Hilliard, Bryan; Lansford, Tom; Watson, Robert P.

• ISBN13: 9780791461334
• ISBN10: 0791461335
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-08-18
• Publisher: State Univ of New York Pr

Table of Contents

Preface	ix
Introduction	1	(16)
Robert P. Watson, Bryan Hilliard, and Tom Lansford
Part 1 Leadership and Character	17	(36)
Chapter 1 The Arbiter of Fate: The Presidential Character of George W. Bush	19	(10)
Bill Kirtley
Chapter 2 Compassionate Conservativism Meets Communitarianism	29	(10)
W.W. Riggs
Chapter 3 The Embryonic Stem Cell Debate and the Battle between Politics and Ethics	39	(14)
Bryan Hilliard
Part 2 Domestic Policy	53	(68)
Chapter 4 An Early Assessment of President George W. Bush and the Environment	55	(14)
Glen Sussman and Byron W. Daynes
Chapter 5 Vigor and Vacillation: An Early Assessment of Bush's Economic Policy	69	(16)
Chris J. Dolan
Chapter 6 Ironing Out Reelection: George W. Bush and the Politics of Steel	85	(20)
Douglas M. Brattebo
Chapter 7 The Politics behind Bush's No Child Left Behind Initiative: Ideas, Elections, and Top-Down Education Reform	105	(16)
Robert Maranto, with Laura Coppeto
Part 3 Foreign Policy and the War on Terror	121	(68)
Chapter 8 The Bush Doctrine: Redefining the U.S. Role in World Politics for the Twenty-first Century?	123	(16)
Cameron G. Thies
Chapter 9 A United Front? The Bush Administration, Coalition Diplomacy, and the Military Campaign in Afghanistan	139	(16)
Tom Lansford
Chapter 10 The Bush Military Tribunal: Relying on the Nazi Saboteur Case	155	(18)
Louis Fisher
Chapter 11 The War on Terrorism and Homeland Security: Presidential and Congressional Challenges	173	(16)
Richard S. Conley
Part 4 The Bush Administration	189	(50)
Chapter 12 The Bush White House: Comparisons with Previous White Houses	191	(16)
Bradley H. Patterson Jr.
Chapter 13 Vice President Dick Cheney: Trendsetter or Just Your Typical Veep?	207	(14)
Jack Lechelt
Chapter 14 "Comforter in Chief": The Transformation of First Lady Laura Bush	221	(18)
Robert P. Watson
Conclusion	239	(24)
Robert P. Watson, Tom Lansford, and Bryan Hilliard
Appendix	263	(16)
About the Contributors	279	(4)
Index	283