Recapturing the Oval Office : New Historical Approaches to the American Presidency / Brian Balogh, Bruce J. Schulman.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Balogh, Brian, editor.

Schulman, Bruce J., editor.

Series:

Miller Center of Public Affairs Bks.

Miller Center of Public Affairs Books

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Executive power--United States--History--20th century.

Executive power.

Presidents--United States--History--20th century.

Presidents.

United States--Politics and government--20th century.

United States.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (320 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2015]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Several generations of historians figuratively abandoned the Oval Office as the bastion of out-of-fashion stories of great men. And now, decades later, the historical analysis of the American presidency remains on the outskirts of historical scholarship, even as policy and political history have rebounded within the academy. In Recapturing the Oval Office, leading historians and social scientists forge an agenda for returning the study of the presidency to the mainstream practice of history and they chart how the study of the presidency can be integrated into historical narratives that combine rich analyses of political, social, and cultural history.The authors demonstrate how "bringing the presidency back in" can deepen understanding of crucial questions regarding race relations, religion, and political economy. The contributors illuminate the conditions that have both empowered and limited past presidents, and thus show how social, cultural, and political contexts matter. By making the history of the presidency a serious part of the scholarly agenda in the future, historians have the opportunity to influence debates about the proper role of the president today.Contributors: Brian Balogh, University of Virginia; Michael A. Bernstein, Tulane University; Kathryn Cramer Brownell, Purdue University; N. D. B. Connolly, The Johns Hopkins University; Frank Costigliola, University of Connecticut; Gareth Davies, University of Oxford; Darren Dochuk, Washington University; Susan J. Douglas, University of Michigan; Daniel J. Galvin, Northwestern University; William I. Hitchcock, University of Virginia; Cathie Jo Martin, Boston University; Alice O'Connor, University of California, Santa Barbara; Bruce J. Schulman, Boston University; Robert O. Self, Brown University; Stephen Skowronek, Yale University

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Introduction: Confessions of a Presidential Assassin / Balogh, Brian

Part I. Balancing Agency and Structure

1. The Unsettled State of Presidential History / Skowronek, Stephen

2. Personal Dynamics and Presidential Transitions: The Case of Roosevelt and Truman / Costigliola, Frank

3. Narrator-in-Chief: Presidents and the Politics of Economic Crisis from FDR to Obama / O'Connor, Alice

Part II. The Social and Cultural Landscape Presidents Confront

4. The Reagan Devolution: Movement Conservatives and the Right's Days of Rage, 1988-1994 / Self, Robert O.

5. There Will Be Oil: Presidents, Wildcat Religion, and the Culture Wars of Pipeline Politics / Dochuk, Darren

6. Ike's World: In Search of Ideology in the Eisenhower Presidency / Hitchcock, William

7. Black Appointees, Political Legitimacy, and the American Presidency / Connolly, N. D. B.

8. Presidents and the Media / Douglas, Susan

9. The Making of the Celebrity Presidency / Cramer Brownell, Kathryn

Part III. The Presidency and Political Structure

10. Stand by Me: Coalitions and Presidential Power from a Cross-National Perspective / Jo Martin, Cathie

11. Taking the Long View: Presidents in a System Stacked against Them / Galvin, Daniel

12. American Presidential Authority and Economic Expertise since World War II / Bernstein, Michael

13. The Changing Presidential Politics of Disaster: From Coolidge to Nixon / Davies, Gareth

Conclusion: The Perils and Prospects of Presidential History / Bernstein, Bruce

Notes

List of Contributors

Index

Notes:

"Published in association with the University of Virginia's Miller Center."

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)

ISBN:

9781501700873

1501700871

9781501700880

150170088X

OCLC:

965168780