Presidential authority
Issitt, Micah L.2020
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Abstract: This volume looks at how American presidents have used the power of the presidency not only to shape America's domestic and foreign policy, but also for personal gain.
Main title:
Presidential authority / Micah L. Issitt.
Author:
Issitt, Micah L., authorCredo Reference (Firm), distributor
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Edition:
[Enhanced Credo edition]
Imprint:
Boston, Massachusetts : Credo Reference, 2020.©2020Amenia, NY : Grey House Publishing, [2020]
Collation:
1 online resource (40 entries) : 76 images ; digital files.
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Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.Description based on title page of print version.
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Mode of access: World Wide Web.
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Print version: xxxvi, 921 pages : illustrations
Contents:
Defining the presidency: George Washington (1789-1797) -- The natural aristocracy: John Adams (1797-1801) -- Aristocratic progressivism: Thomas Jefferson (1801-1809) -- Father of the constitution: James Madison (1809-1817) -- Controlling the Americas: James Monroe (1817-1825) -- A populist revolution: John Quincy Adams and Andrew Jackson (1825-1837) -- A conservative division: Martin Van Buren, William Henry Harrison, and John Tyler (1837-1845) -- Manifest destiny: James K. Polk (1845-1849) -- The last of the Whigs: Zachary Taylor and Millard Fillmore (1849-1853) -- An inevitable collapse: Franklin Pierce and James Buchanan (1853-1861) -- Emancipation: Abraham Lincoln (1861-1865) -- Reconstruction halted: Andrew Johnson (1865-1869) -- Corrupt bargains: Ulysses S. Grant (1869-1877) -- The lost presidents: Rutherford B. Hayes, James Garfield, and Chester A. Arthur (1877-1885) -- Popularity and political corruption: Grover Cleveland and Benjamin Harrison(1885-1897) -- A state of anarchy: William McKinley (1897-1901) -- Natural American history: Theodore Roosevelt and William Howard Taft (1901-1913) -- The dawn of internationalism: Woodrow Wilson (1913-1921) -- The conservative shift: Warren Harding, Calvin Coolidge, and Herbert Hoover (1921-1933) -- New ideas: Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1933-1945) -- Extreme solutions: Harry S. Truman (1945-1953) -- The Cold War hero: Dwight D. Eisenhower (1953-1961) -- Civil rights and human rights: John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson (1961-1969) -- Thieves and liars: Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford (1969-1977) -- Moralistic progressivism: Jimmy Carter (1977-1981) -- Acting like a president: Ronald Reagan (1981-1989) -- Crime and punishment: George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton (1989-2001) -- Empire and archetype: George W. Bush and Barack Obama (2001-2017) -- America's business: Donald Trump (2017-) -- Conclusion: the limits of power.
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ISBN:
9781787857339 (electronic version)9781642654509 (print)1642654507 (print)
Dewey class:
352.2350973
LC class:
JK516
Language:
English
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BRN:
501519
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