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Author:

Gould, Lewis L.

Title:

The modern American presidency / Lewis L. Gould ; foreword by Richard Norton Smith.

Edition:

2nd ed., rev. and updated.

Publisher:

University Press of Kansas,

Copyright Date:

c2009

Description:

xvii, 318 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Subject:

Presidents--United States--History--20th century.
Presidents--United States--History--21st century.
Presidents--United States--Biography.
United States--Politics and government--20th century.
United States--Politics and government--21st century.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Contents:

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

ISBN:

0700616845 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780700616848 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0700616837 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780700616831 (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)320186050

LCCN:

2009020161

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

N5UX522 -- University of Iowa Law Library (Iowa City)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)