The Third-Term Tradition : Its Rise and Collapse in American Politics / Charles W. Stein.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Stein, Charles W., author.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [1943]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Looks at the role of the anti-third tradition in American politics with a critical analysis of the development of the third term question from its earliest stage in the Constitutional Convention of 1787.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Foreword

Preface

Acknowledgments

Contents

Cartoons

Part One. Birth Of The Tradition.

I. The Views Of The Venerable

II. The Tired Old Man

III. The Fountain Head

IV. The Tradition Implemented-Two Knights And A Knave

V. Interlude-The Issue Dormant

Part Two. Attempts Which Miscarried

VI. The Yankee Caesar

VII. Four More Years Of Grover-Not Eight!

VIII. "Rough-Riding" Over Tradition

IX. Shattered Hopes

X. "I Do Not Choose To Run"

Part Three. Collapse And The Future

XI. F.D.R.-"The Champ"

XII. Prelude To Dictatorship?

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

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

ISBN:

0-231-89784-7

OCLC:

1100432433