Guide to the presidency / Michael Nelson, editor.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Nelson, Michael, 1949-

Congressional Quarterly, inc.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Presidents--United States.

Presidents.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1773 p.)

Edition:

Second edition.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The Guide to the Presidency is an extensive study of the most important office of the U.S. political system. Its two volumes describe the history, workings and people involved in this office from Washington to Clinton.The thirty-seven chapters of the Guide, arranged into seven distinct subject areas (ranging from the origins of the office to the powers of the presidency to selection and removal) cover every aspect of the presidency. Initially dealing with the constitutional evolution of the presidency and its development, the book goes on to expand on the history of the office, how the preside

Contents:

""Cover""; ""Half Title""; ""Title""; ""Copyright""; ""Contents""; ""Preface""; ""List of Contributors""; ""PART I Origins and Development of the Presidency""; ""CHAPTER 1 Constitutional Beginnings""; ""Antecedents""; ""The Constitutional Convention""; ""Creating the Presidency""; ""Ratifying the Constitution""; ""Constitutional Amendments""; ""CHAPTER 2 History of the Presidency""; ""The Presidency of George Washington""; ""The Rise of Party Politics and the Triumph of Jeffersonianism""; ""The Jacksonian Presidency""; ""The Presidency of Abraham Lincoln""

""Andrew Johnson and the Assault on Executive Authority""""Ulysses S. Grant and the Abdication of Executive Power""; ""The Fight to Restore Presidential Power""; ""Prelude to a More Active Presidency""; ""Theodore Roosevelt to Woodrow Wilson""; ""Warren Harding to Herbert Hoover""; ""Franklin D. Roosevelt to George Bush""; ""Bill Clinton and the American Presidency""; ""CHAPTER 3 History of the Vice Presidency""; ""The Founding Period""; ""The Vice Presidency in the Nineteenth Century""; ""Theodore Roosevelt to Truman""; ""The Modern Vice Presidency""; ""Conclusion""

""CHAPTER 4 Rating the Presidents""""The Schlesinger Polls""; ""Later Surveys""; ""Critics of the Ratings""; ""Eras of Presidential Success and Failure""; ""PART II Selection and Removal of the President""; ""CHAPTER 5 The Electoral Process""; ""History of Presidential Elections""; ""The Campaign Finance System""; ""The Nominating Process""; ""General Election Campaign""; ""The Election""; ""CHAPTER 6 Taking Office""; ""The Transition Period""; ""The Inauguration""; ""CHAPTER 7 Chronology of Presidential Elections""; ""The Emergence of the Electoral Process""; ""The Age of Jackson""

""The Idea of a Party System""""Slavery Divides the Nation""; ""Postwar Radicalism""; ""The Age of Republicanism""; ""The Age of Reform""; ""The ""Return to Normalcy"" and the Roaring Twenties""; ""The New Deal Coalition""; ""The Breakup of Consensus""; ""The New Conservative Discourse""; ""The Call for Change""; ""CHAPTER 8 Selection by Succession""; ""The Constitutional Convention""; ""The Vice President as Full Successor""; ""Other Officials in the Line of Succession""; ""Preinauguration Selection by Succession""; ""Filling Vice-Presidential Vacancies""; ""Two Vice-Presidential Vacancies""

""Temporary Succession When the President Is Disabled""""CHAPTER 9 Removal of the President""; ""Issues in Presidential Succession""; ""Death from Natural Causes""; ""Presidential Assassinations""; ""Other Assaults and Issues of Presidential Security""; ""Impeachment""; ""Presidential Disability""; ""CHAPTER 10 Removal of the Vice President""; ""Constitutional Convention""; ""Death""; ""Resignation""; ""Impeachment""; ""Replacing the Vice President""; ""Disability""; ""PART III Powers of the Presidency""; ""CHAPTER 11 Chief Executive""; ""The President as Chief Administrator""

""The Appointment Power""

Notes:

First published 1996 by Congressional Quarterly Inc.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-135-91469-9

1-135-91462-1

1-315-06152-X

9781315061528

OCLC:

908632747