The Presidents and the Constitution : a living history / edited by Ken Gormley.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gormley, Ken, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Executive power--United States--History.

Executive power.

United States.

History.

Presidents--United States--History.

Presidents.

Constitutional history--United States.

Constitutional history.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

x, 701 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : New York University Press, [2016]

Contents:

Introduction : An unfinished presidency / Ken Gormley

Part I. The founding era

George Washington / Richard J. Ellis

John Adams / Louis Fisher

Thomas Jefferson / Cliff Sloan, Louis Fisher, and Moshe Spinowitz

James Madison / Ralph Ketcham

James Monroe / Gary Hart

John Quincy Adams / Jonathan L. Entin

Part II. The Age of Jackson

Andrew Jackson / Mark A. Graber

Martin Van Buren / Michael J. Gerhardt

William Henry Harrison / David Marks Shribman

John Tyler / Robert J. Spitzer

James K. Polk / Frank J. Williams

Part III. The pre-Civil War era

Zachary Taylor / Paul Finkelman

Millard Fillmore / Joseph F. Rishel

Franklin Pierce / Paul Finkelman

James Buchanan / Thomas A. Horrocks

Part IV. Civil War and Reconstruction

Abraham Lincoln / William D. Pederson

Andrew Johnson / Michael Les Benedict

Ulysses S. Grant / John F. Marszalek

Part V. The Gilded Age

Rutherford B. Hayes / Michael A. Ross

James A. Garfield / Thomas C. Sutton

Chester A. Arthur / Thomas C. Sutton

Grover Cleveland, first term : 1884-1888 / Donald Grier Stephenson Jr.

Benjamin Harrison / Allan B. Spetter

Grover Cleveland, second term: 1892-1896 / Donald Grier Stephenson Jr.

William McKinley / Thomas C. Sutton

Part VI. The Progressive Era

Theodore Roosevelt / William D. Bader

William Howard Taft / Francine Sanders Romero

Part VII. World War I and the Great Depression

Woodrow Wilson / Saladin M. Ambar

Warren G. Harding / James D. Robenalt

Calvin Coolidge / John W. Johnson and Dale E.P. Yurs

Herbert Hoover / John Q. Barrett

Part VIII. The New Deal and World War II

Franklin Delano Roosevelt / William D. Pederson

Harry S. Truman / James N. Giglio

Part IX. The Civil Rights Era

Dwight D. Eisenhower / Richard V. Damms

John F. Kennedy / Barbara A. Perry

Lyndon B. Johnson / John L. Bullion

Part X. The Watergate Era and reform

Richard M. Nixon / Stanley Kutler

Gerald R. Ford / Jeffrey Crouch

Jimmy Carter / Scott Kaufman

Part XI. New conservatives, new Democrats, and polarization

Ronald Reagan / Kenneth W. Starr

George H.W. Bush / Lori Cox Han

William Jefferson Clinton / Ken Gormley

Part XII. National security era: post-9/11

George W. Bush / Benjamin A. Kleinerman

Barack Obama / Michael J. Gerhardt

Conclusion : An evolving American presidency / Ken Gormley.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781479839902

1479839906

OCLC:

926743500