Recapturing the Oval Office

New Historical Approaches to the American Presidency

Häftad, Engelska, 2015

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Several generations of historians figuratively abandoned the Oval Office as the bastion of out-of-fashion stories of great men. And now, decades later, the historical analysis of the American presidency remains on the outskirts of historical scholarship, even as policy and political history have rebounded within the academy. In Recapturing the Oval Office, leading historians and social scientists forge an agenda for returning the study of the presidency to the mainstream practice of history and they chart how the study of the presidency can be integrated into historical narratives that combine rich analyses of political, social, and cultural history. The authors demonstrate how "bringing the presidency back in" can deepen understanding of crucial questions regarding race relations, religion, and political economy. The contributors illuminate the conditions that have both empowered and limited past presidents, and thus show how social, cultural, and political contexts matter. By making the history of the presidency a serious part of the scholarly agenda in the future, historians have the opportunity to influence debates about the proper role of the president today.

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Utgivningsdatum2015-11-06
Mått155 x 235 x 19 mm
Vikt907 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieMiller Center of Public Affairs Books
Antal sidor320
FörlagCornell University Press
ISBN9780801456572

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Brian Balogh is the Compton Professor at the Miller Center and the Corcoran Department of History at the University of Virginia. He is the author of A Government Out of Sight: The Mystery of National Authority in Nineteenth-Century America and editor of Integrating the Sixties: The Origins, Structure and Legacy of a Turbulent Decade. Bruce J. Schulman is the William E. Huntington Professor of History at Boston University. He is the author of From Cotton Belt to Sunbelt: Federal Policy, Economic Development, and the Transformation of the South, 1938–1980; Lyndon B. Johnson and American Liberalism: A Brief Biography with Documents; and The Seventies: The Great Shift in American Culture, Society, and Politics.

Introduction: Confessions of a Presidential Assassinby Brian BaloghPart I. Balancing Agency and Structure1. The Unsettled State of Presidential Historyby Stephen Skowronek2. Personal Dynamics and Presidential Transitions: The Case of Roosevelt and Trumanby Frank Costigliola3. Narrator-in-Chief: Presidents and the Politics of Economic Crisis from FDR to Obamaby Alice O'ConnorPart II. The Social and Cultural Landscape Presidents Confront4. The Reagan Devolution: Movement Conservatives and the Right's Days of Rage, 1988–1994by Robert O. Self5. There Will Be Oil: Presidents, Wildcat Religion, and the Culture Wars of Pipeline Politicsby Darren Dochuk6. Ike's World: Ideology and Power in Eisenhower's National Strategyby William I. Hitchcock7. Black Appointees, Political Legitimacy, and the American Presidencyby N. D. B. Connolly8. Presidents and the Mediaby Susan J. Douglas9. The Making of the Celebrity Presidencyby Kathryn Cramer BrownellPart III. The Presidency and Political Structure10. Stand by Me: Coalitions and Presidential Power from a Cross-National Perspectiveby Cathie Jo Martin11. Taking the Long View: Presidents in a System Stacked against Themby Daniel J. Galvin12. American Presidential Authority and Economic Expertise since World War IIby Michael A. Bernstein13. The Changing Presidential Politics of Disaster: From Coolidge to Nixonby Gareth DaviesConclusion: The Perils and Prospects of Presidential Historyby Bruce J. SchulmanNotesList of ContributorsIndex