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The politics presidents make : leadership from John Adams to George Bush / Stephen Skowronek. [print]

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Skowronek, Stephen [Author]

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JK511.S628.P655 1993

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Contents:

Power and authority -- Structure and action

Part one: Thomas Jefferson's reconstruction -- Part two: James Monroe's articulation -- Part three: John Quincy Adam's disjunction

Part one: Andrew Jackson's reconstruction -- Part two: James Polk's articulation -- Part three: Franklin Pierce's disjunction

Part two: Theodore Roosevelt's articulation -- Part three: Herbert Hoover's disjunction

Part two: Lyndon Johnson's articulation -- Part three: Jimmy Carter's disjunction

Subject: Presidential leadership needs to be understood in the political time ... Who is a new president replacing, what previous program is he extending or rejecting, and how strong is the resistance to his new agenda? Our presidents recycle a few basic claims to govern, and these claims develop, decay, or are destroyed in recurrent patterns. Our last three presidents sought a distinctive politics for themselves, but in the enfolding, time-sensitive presidential drama, they constructed a politics that bears a surreal resemblance to the succession of John Quincy Adams, Andrew Jackson, and Martin Van Buren. By crossing the conceptual divide of the nineteenth century for comparison, we see the failed presidencies of Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon, Jimmy Carter, and George Bush, as well as the success story of Ronald Reagan, in a different light.

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Includes bibliographies and index.

I. Places in history

Rethinking presidential history -- Power and authority -- Structure and action

II. Recurrent and emergent patterns

Jeffersonain leadership: patrician prototypes -- Part one: Thomas Jefferson's reconstruction -- Part two: James Monroe's articulation -- Part three: John Quincy Adam's disjunction

Jacksonian leadership: classic forms -- Part one: Andrew Jackson's reconstruction -- Part two: James Polk's articulation -- Part three: Franklin Pierce's disjunction

Republican leadership: stiffening crosscurrents -- Part one: Abraham Lincoln's reconstruction -- Part two: Theodore Roosevelt's articulation -- Part three: Herbert Hoover's disjunction

Liberal leadership: fraying boundaries -- Part one: Franklin Roosevelt's reconstruction -- Part two: Lyndon Johnson's articulation -- Part three: Jimmy Carter's disjunction

III. The waning of political time

Reagan, Bush, and beyond.

Presidential leadership needs to be understood in the political time ... Who is a new president replacing, what previous program is he extending or rejecting, and how strong is the resistance to his new agenda? Our presidents recycle a few basic claims to govern, and these claims develop, decay, or are destroyed in recurrent patterns. Our last three presidents sought a distinctive politics for themselves, but in the enfolding, time-sensitive presidential drama, they constructed a politics that bears a surreal resemblance to the succession of John Quincy Adams, Andrew Jackson, and Martin Van Buren. By crossing the conceptual divide of the nineteenth century for comparison, we see the failed presidencies of Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon, Jimmy Carter, and George Bush, as well as the success story of Ronald Reagan, in a different light.

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