TY  - BOOK
AU  - Skowronek,Stephen
TI  - The politics presidents make: leadership from John Adams to George Bush 
AV  - JK511.S628.P655 1993 
PY  - 1993///
CY  - Cambridge, Massachusetts
PB  - Belknap Press
KW  - Presidents
KW  - United States
KW  - History
KW  - Political leadership
N1  - I. Places in history; II. Recurrent and emergent patterns; III. The waning of political time; 2; Rethinking presidential history --; Power and authority --; Structure and action; 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; Reagan, Bush, and beyond; 2
N2  - 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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