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Title:

Recapturing the Oval Office : new historical approaches to the American presidency / edited by Brian Balogh and Bruce J. Schulman.

Publisher:

Cornell University Press,

Copyright Date:

2015

Description:

vi, 311 pages ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Presidents--United States--History--20th century.
Executive power--United States--History--20th century.
United States--Politics and government--20th century.

Other Authors:

Balogh, Brian, editor.
Schulman, Bruce J., editor.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

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.

ISBN:

0801456576 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780801456572 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0801453720 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780801453724 (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)905089437

LCCN:

2015008963

Locations:

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

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)