Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2015.
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Notes:

• Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Introduction : confessions of a presidential assassin / Brian Balogh — The unsettled state of presidential history / Stephen Skowronek — Personal dynamics and presidential transitions : the case of Roosevelt and Truman / Frank Costigliola — Narrator in chief : presidents and the politics of economic crisis from FDR to Barack Obama / Alice O’Connor — The Reagan devolution : movement conservatives and the right’s days of rage, 1988-1994 / Robert O. Self — There will be oil : presidents, wildcat religion, and the culture wars of pipeline politics / Darren Dochuk — Ike’s world : ideology and power in Eisenhower’s national strategy / William Hitchcock — Black appointees, political legitimacy, and the American presidency / Nathan Connolly — Presidents and the media / Susan J. Douglas — The making of the celebrity president / Kathryn Cramer Brownell — Stand by me : coalitions and presidential power from a cross-national perspective / Cathie Jo Martin — Taking the long view : presidents in a system stacked against them / Daniel Galvin — American presidential authority and economic expertise since World War II / Michael A. Bernstein — The changing presidential politics of disaster from Coolidge to Nixon / Gareth Davies — Conclusion : the perils and prospects of presidential history / Bruce J. Schulman.

Subjects:

• Presidents — United States — History — 20th century.
• Executive power — United States — History — 20th century.
• United States — Politics and government — 20th century.
• United States. fast (OCoLC)fst01204155
• 1900 – 1999 fast
• History. fast (OCoLC)fst01411628

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