The modern American presidency /

Gould, Lewis L.

The modern American presidency / Lewis L. Gould ; foreword by Richard Norton Smith. - Lawrence : University Press of Kansas, c2003. - xv, 301 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Age of Cortelyou : William McKinley and Theodore Roosevelt -- Lawyer and the professor : William Howard Taft and Woodrow Wilson -- Modern presidency recedes : Warren G. Harding, Calvin Coolidge, and Herbert Hoover -- Modern presidency revives and grows : Franklin D. Roosevelt -- Presidency in the Cold War era : Harry S. Truman and Dwight D. Eisenhower -- Souring of the modern presidency : John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson -- Rise of the continuous campaign : Richard Nixon -- Modern presidency under siege : Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter -- Modern presidency in a Republican era : Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush -- Perils of the modern presidency : Bill Clinton.

0700612521 (alk. paper) 0700613307 (pbk.)

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Presidents--History--United States--20th century.
Presidents--United States--Biography.


United States--Politics and government--20th century.
United States--Politics and government--1897-1901.

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