Politics Presidents Make Leadership from John Adams to Bill Clinton, Revised Edition

Name: Politics Presidents Make Leadership from John Adams to Bill Clinton, Revised Edition
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ISBN: 9780674689374

ISBN-10: 0674689372

ISBN-13: 9780674689374

Edition: 2nd 1997 (Revised)

Authors: Stephen Skowronek

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Stephen Skowronek's wholly innovative study demonstrates that presidents are persistent agents of change, continually disrupting and transforming the political landscape. In an afterword to this new edition, the author examines "third way" leadership as it has been practiced by Bill Clinton and others. These leaders are neither great repudiators nor orthodox innovators. They challenge received political categories, mix seemingly antithetical doctrines, and often take their opponents' issues as their own. As the 1996 election confirmed, third way leadership has great electoral appeal. The question is whether Clinton in his second term will escape the convulsive end so often associated with…

Book details

List price: $30.00
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 1997
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 3/25/1997
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 576
Size: 6.37" wide x 9.25" long x 1.10" tall
Weight: 1.738
Language: English

Stephen Skowronek is the Pelatiah Perit Professor of Political and Social Science at Yale University and co-author most recently of The Search for American Political Development.



Preface, 1997



Places in History


Rethinking Presidential History


Power and Authority


Structure and Action



Recurrent and Emergent Patterns


Jeffersonian Leadership: Patrician Prototypes



Thomas Jefferson's Reconstruction



James Monroe's Articulation



John Quincy Adams's Disjunction



Jacksonian Leadership: Classic Forms



andrew Jackson's Reconstruction



James Polk's Articulation



Franklin Pierce's Disjunction



Republican Leadership: Stiffening Crosscurrents



Abraham Lincoln's Reconstruction



Theodore Roosevelt's Articulation



Herbert Hoover's Disjunction



Liberal Leadership: Fraying Boundaries



Franklin Roosevelt's Reconstruction



Lyndon Johnson's Articulation



Jimmy Carter's Disjunction



The Waning of Political Time



Reagan, Bush, and Beyond


Afterward Notes


Index