Legacy of Leadership Governors and American History

Name: Legacy of Leadership Governors and American History
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ISBN: 9780812240948

ISBN-10: 0812240944

ISBN-13: 9780812240948

Edition: 2008

Authors: Clayton McClure Brooks

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In A Legacy of Leadership, top scholars and journalists create a new framework for understanding the contributions governors have made to defining democracy and shaping American history. Structured chronologically, A Legacy of Leadership places governors in contrast and comparison with one another as well as within the context of their times to show how a century of dramatic developments--war and peace, depression and prosperity--led governors to rethink and expand their positions of leadership. The nine chapters of compelling new scholarship presented here connect the experiences of dynamic individual governors and the evolution of the gubernatorial office to the broader challenges the…

Book details

List price: $64.95
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Publication date: 7/16/2008
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 304
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 1.452
Language: English



Foreword



Introduction: Governing the Twentieth Century: Building a History of the Modern Governorship



Governing the 1910s



Challenges of a New Century: Woodrow Wilson and the Progressive Era



Governing the 1920s and 1930s



Huey Long and the Great Depression: Rise of a Populist Demagogue



Governing the 1940s



The Gangbuster as Governor: Thomas E. Dewey and the Republican New Deal



Governing the 1950s



Connecting the United States: Governors and the Building of the Interstate System



Governing the 1960s



Governors in the Civil Rights Era: The Wallace Factor



Governing the 1970s



Preparing for the Presidency: The Political Education of Ronald Reagan



Governing the 1980s



Devolution in American Federalism in the Twentieth Century



Governing the 1990s



The Case of Ann Richards: Women in the Gubernatorial Office



Conclusion: The Evolution of the Gubernatorial Office: United States Governors over the Twentieth Century



Afterword: Governing the Twenty-First Century


Timeline of Governors and States in the Twentieth Century


Notes


Further Resources


List of Contributors


Index


Acknowledgments