Politics Presidents Make : Leadership from John Adams to George Bush

Name: Politics Presidents Make : Leadership from John Adams to George Bush
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ISBN: 9780674689350

ISBN-10: 0674689356

ISBN-13: 9780674689350

Edition: 1997

Authors: Stephen Skowronek

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THIS EDITION HAS BEEN REPLACED BY A NEWER EDITION Stephen Skowronek's wholly innovative study demonstrates that presidents are persistent agents of change, continually disrupting and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…

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List price: $31.00
Copyright year: 1997
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 538
Size: 6.75" wide x 9.75" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.892
Language: English



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


Notes


Index