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Why moderates make the best presidents : George Washington to Barack Obama / Gil Troy.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Troy, Gil.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Presidents--United States--History.
- Presidents.
- Moderation--Political aspects.
- History.
- Moderation.
- United States.
- Presidents--United States--Biography.
- Political leadership--United States--History.
- Political leadership.
- Moderation--Political aspects--United States--History.
- United States--Politics and government.
- Politics and government.
- United States--Politics and government--Philosophy.
- Philosophy.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- x, 350 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- Second edition, with a new afterword.
- Place of Publication:
- Lawrence, Kan. : University Press of Kansas, [2012]
- Contents:
- A "Middle Course" for Our "Common Cause" 1
- 1 Washington's Way
- "Liberal Allowances, Mutual Forbearances, and Temporizing Yieldings on All Sides" 19
- 2 Compromisers, Zealots, and Ciphers
- The Blessing of Parties, the Challenge of Slavery, and the Failure of Presidents 39
- 3 Abraham Lincoln's Middle Measure
- A Cautious Politician's "My Policy Is to Have No Policy" Pragmatism 57
- 4 Theodore Roosevelt's Democratic Two-Step
- The Rise of the Romantic, Nationalist Presidency 75
- 5 Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal
- The Radical as Moderate 93
- 6 Truman, Eisenhower, and America's Bipartisan Consensus
- Building Political Unity through Cultural Conformity 123
- 7 John F. Kennedy and Civil Rights
- Moderation and the Challenge of Change 147
- 8 The Consensus Collapses
- Lyndon Johnson and the Limits of Moderation 165
- 9 Learning from Losers
- Where Richard Nixon and Jimmy Carter Went Wrong 183
- 10 Ronald Reagan's Moderate Revolution
- Resurrecting the Center 201
- 11 Bill Clinton and the Perils of Triangulation
- The Need to be Muscular as Well as Moderate 223
- 12 George W. Bush
- Imprisoned by Conviction? 247.
- Notes:
- Prev. title: Leading from the center, c2008.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780700618835
- 070061883X
- OCLC:
- 788282781
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