Table of Contents:
  • The Constitutional Convention
  • Creating the presidency
  • Implementing the constitutional presidency : George Washington and John Adams
  • The triumph of Jeffersonianism
  • The age of Jackson
  • The presidency of Abraham Lincoln
  • The reaction against presidential power : Andrew Johnson to William Mckinley
  • Progressive politics and executive power : the presidencies of Theodore Roosevelt and William Howard Taft
  • Woodrow Wilson and the defense of popular leadership
  • The triumph of conservative republicanism
  • The consolidation of the modern presidency : Franklin D. Roosevelt to Dwight D. Eisenhower
  • Personalizing the presidency : John F. Kennedy to Jimmy Carter
  • A restoration of presidential power? Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush
  • Bill Clinton and the modern presidency
  • George W. Bush and beyond
  • The vice presidency