American Presidency: Origins and Development, 1776-2007 5th Revised edition [Mīkstie vāki]

Preface		xi
CHAPTER 1. The Constitutional Convention		1
Antecedents		2
The Constitutional Convention		8
CHAPTER 2. Creating the Presidency		26
The Making of the Presidency: An Overview		26
Number of the Executive		29
Selection and Succession		31
Term of Office		34
Removal		35
Institutional Separation from Congress		38
Enumerated Powers		40
The Vice Presidency		54
Ratifying the Constitution		57
CHAPTER 3. Implementing the Constitutional Presidency: George Washington and John Adams		68
The Election of George Washington		68
Making the Presidency Safe for Democracy		71
Forming the Executive Branch		73
Presidential "Supremacy" and the Conduct of the Executive Branch		75
Presidential Nonpartisanship and the Beginning of Party Conflict		78
Washington's Retirement and the Jay Treaty: The Constitutional Crisis of 1796		84
The 1796 Election		87
The Embattled Presidency of John Adams		88
The Alien and Sedition Acts		91
CHAPTER 4. The Triumph of Jeffersonianism		97
The "Revolution" of 1800		98
Jefferson's War with the Judiciary		101
The Democratic-Republican Program and the Adjustment to Power		102
The Limits of "Popular" Leadership		106
The Twelfth Amendment		107
Jefferson's Mixed Legacy		108
The Presidency of James Madison and the Rise of the House of Representatives		109
The Presidencies of James Monroe and John Quincy Adams		112
CHAPTER 5. The Age of Jackson		121
Jacksonian Democracy		122
The Rise of the Party Convention		125
Jackson's Struggle with Congress		125
The Aftermath of the Bank Veto		127
The Decline of the Cabinet		129
The Limits of the Jacksonian Presidency		130
Martin Van Buren and the Panic of 1837		133
The Jacksonian Presidency Sustained		134
John Tyler and the Problem of Presidential Succession		137
The Presidency of James K. Polk		140
The Slavery Controversy and the Twilight of the Jacksonian Presidency		143
CHAPTER 6. The Presidency of Abraham Lincoln		151
Lincoln and the Slavery Controversy		153
The Election of 1860		155
Lincoln and Secession		157
Lincoln's Wartime Measures		158
The Emancipation Proclamation		163
The Election of 1864		165
Lincoln's Legacy		168
CHAPTER 7. The Reaction against Presidential Power: Andrew Johnson to William McKinley		173
Reconstruction and the Assault on Executive Authority		174
The Impeachment of Andrew Johnson		178
Ulysses S. Grant and the Abdication of Executive Power		180
The Fight to Restore Presidential Power		185
Congressional Government and the Prelude to a More Active Presidency		195
CHAPTER 8. Progressive Politics and Executive Power: The Presidencies of Theodore Roosevelt and William Howard Taft		208
Theodore Roosevelt and the Expansion of Executive Power		210
The Troubled Presidency of William Howard Taft		226
CHAPTER 9. Woodrow Wilson and the Defense of Popular Leadership		237
Woodrow Wilson's Theory of Executive Leadership		239
Wilson and Party Reform		241
The Art of Popular Leadership		242
Wilson's Relations with Congress		243
Wilson as World Leader		247
CHAPTER 10. The Triumph of Conservative Republicanism		258
The Harding Era		260
The "Silent" Politics of Calvin Coolidge		267
Herbert C. Hoover and the Great Depression		271
The Twentieth Amendment		275
CHAPTER 11. The Consolidation of the Modern Presidency: Franklin D. Roosevelt to Dwight D. Eisenhower		280
Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Modern Presidency		281
The Modern Presidency Sustained: Harry S. Truman and Dwight D. Eisenhower		298
CHAPTER 12. Personalizing the Presidency: John F. Kennedy to Jimmy Carter		323
John E Kennedy and the Rise of the "Personal Presidency"		324
Lyndon B. Johnson and Presidential Government		331
The Twenty-fifth Amendment		337
The Presidency of Richard Nixon		340
Gerald R. Ford and the Post-Watergate Era		352
A President Named Jimmy		355
CHAPTER 13. A Restoration of Presidential Power? Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush		366
The Reagan Revolution		366
Reagan's Legacy and the Accession of George Bush		379
The Bush Presidency		386
CHAPTER 14. Bill Clinton and the Modern Presidency		398
The Election of 1992		399
The First Year of the Clinton Presidency		401
The 1994 Election and the Restoration of Divided Government		406
The Comeback President		408
Balanced Budgets, Impeachment Politics, and the Limits of the "Third Way"		413
CHAPTER 15. George W. Bush and Beyond		423
The 2000 Election		424
Bush v. Gore		426
The Early Days of the Bush Presidency		428
September 11 and the War on Terrorism		431
An Expanded Presidency		433
Bush and the Republican Party		437
The Modern Presidency in the Twenty-first Century		441
CHAPTER 16. The Vice Presidency		451
The Founding Period		452
The Vice Presidency in the Nineteenth Century		455
Theodore Roosevelt to Harry S. Truman		458
The Modern Vice Presidency		461
Conclusion		474
Appendix		479
Constitution of the United States		481
U.S. Presidents and Vice Presidents		500
Summary of Presidential Elections, 1789-2004		503
Index		513

Sidney M. Milkis is the White Burkett Miller Professor and the Cavaliers Distinguished Teaching Professor in the Department of Politics and a Faculty Associate at the Miller Center of Public Affairs at the University of Virginia. His books include The President and the Parties (1993), The Politics of Regulatory Change, 2d edition (1996), Political Parties and Constitutional Government (1999), Presidential Greatness (2000), and The New Deal and the Triumph of Liberalism (2002). His articles have appeared in Political Science Quarterly, Studies in American Political Development, The Journal of Policy History, and several edited volumes.

Michael Nelson is Fulmer Professor of Political Science at Rhodes College and a senior fellow at the University of Virginias Miller Center. A former editor of the Washington Monthly, his most recent books include Trumps First Year (2018); The Elections of 2016 (2018); The Evolving Presidency: Landmark Documents (2019); The American Presidency: Origins and Development (with Sidney M. Milkis, 2011); and Governing at Home: The White House and Domestic Policymaking (with Russell B. Riley, 2011). Nelson has contributed to numerous journals, including the Journal of Policy History, Journal of Politics, and Political Science Quarterly. He also has written multiple articles on subjects as varied as baseball, Frank Sinatra, and C. S. Lewis. More than fifty of his articles have been anthologized in works of political science, history, and English composition.  His 2014 book, Resilient America: Electing Nixon, Channeling Dissent, and Dividing Government, won the American Political Science Associations Richard E. Neustadt Award for best book on the presidency published that year; and his 2006 book with John Lyman Mason, How the South Joined the Gambling Nation, won the Southern Political Science Associations V.O. Key Award.