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How governors built the modern American presidency / Saladin M. Ambar.
LIBRA JK511 .A63 2012
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ambar, Saladin M.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Presidents--United States--History--19th century.
- Presidents.
- Presidents--United States--History--20th century.
- Executive power.
- History.
- United States.
- Executive power--United States--History--19th century.
- Executive power--United States--History--20th century.
- Governors--United States--Powers and duties.
- Governors.
- United States--Politics and government--1865-1933.
- Politics and government.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 185 pages ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2012]
- Contents:
- The hidden prince: unveiling the presidency's executive narrative
- Emerging executives of the Second Republic, 1876-1912
- Theodore Roosevelt and the new American executive, 1881-1911
- An "unconstitutional governor": Woodrow Wilson and the people's executive
- Prince of the Hudson: FDR's Albany executive
- "Undoing the framers' work": executive power and American democracy.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780812243963
- 081224396X
- OCLC:
- 756912958
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