Unprecedented American Presidency

Thomas Sanders is Professor of History at the United States Naval Academy. Previous works include Brower and Sanders, The World in the Twentieth Century; the edited works Historiography of Imperial Russia and Encounters in World History; with Gary Hamburg and Ernest Tucker, Against the Mountains: Russian-Muslim Conflict in the Caucasus.

• 1. Introduction: The Uneasy Presidency- Julian Zelizer.- 2. The Political Presidency: Discovery and Invention- Jack Rakove.- 3. The American Presidency: A Brief History- David Kennedy.- 4. Mobilization, Management and the Modern American Presidency- Stephen Skowronek.- 5. Presidents as Thinkers: Barack Obama and His Progressive Predecessors- James T. Kloppenberg.