Stephen J. Rockwell is Professor of Political Science at St. Joseph’s University, New York, and the author of Indian Affairs and the Administrative State in the Nineteenth Century.

• Introduction1. Choices Within the State, 1776-1930: Process, Principled Innovation, and Synthesis2. President John Quincy Adams and the American State in the 1820s3. Presidential Decision Making and the Administrative State: Process and Procedure in the 1820s4. President Grant and the American State After the Civil War5. Presidential Decision Making and the Evolving State: Grant, Reconstruction, and Indian Affairs6. President Taft and the 125-Year-Old American State7. Taft the BuilderConclusion: The Non-Development of the American Presidency and the New Scholarship of the American State

Stephen J. Rockwell is Professor of Political Science at St. Joseph’s University, New York, and the author of Indian Affairs and the Administrative State in the Nineteenth Century.

• Introduction1. Choices Within the State, 1776-1930: Process, Principled Innovation, and Synthesis2. President John Quincy Adams and the American State in the 1820s3. Presidential Decision Making and the Administrative State: Process and Procedure in the 1820s4. President Grant and the American State After the Civil War5. Presidential Decision Making and the Evolving State: Grant, Reconstruction, and Indian Affairs6. President Taft and the 125-Year-Old American State7. Taft the BuilderConclusion: The Non-Development of the American Presidency and the New Scholarship of the American State

Stephen J. Rockwell is Professor of Political Science at St. Joseph’s University, New York, and the author of Indian Affairs and the Administrative State in the Nineteenth Century.

• Introduction1. Choices Within the State, 1776-1930: Process, Principled Innovation, and Synthesis2. President John Quincy Adams and the American State in the 1820s3. Presidential Decision Making and the Administrative State: Process and Procedure in the 1820s4. President Grant and the American State After the Civil War5. Presidential Decision Making and the Evolving State: Grant, Reconstruction, and Indian Affairs6. President Taft and the 125-Year-Old American State7. Taft the BuilderConclusion: The Non-Development of the American Presidency and the New Scholarship of the American State