Author: Robert Swansbrough
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Keywords: presidency, evolving, american, bush, george, war, test, fire
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2008-05-13
List price: $74.95
ISBN-10: 0230600999
ISBN-13: 9780230600997

This book revolves around three closely related questions. First, how did George W. Bush—a wisecracking cutup, mediocre student, failed oil patch entrepreneur and fighter pilot in the Texas Air National Guard’s “Champagne Unit”—become a War President? Did George W. Bush go too far—invading Iraq, abandoning the Geneva Conventions’ safeguards for captured prisoners and conducting surveillance over American citizens without court approval—in wielding his powers as War President? And finally, will George W. Bush receive history’s accolade as a

Authors:Chester J. Pach, Elmo Richardson,
Publisher: University Press of Kansas
Keywords: presidency, series, american, eisenhower, dwight
Number of Pages: 290
Published: 1991-04
List price: $15.95
ISBN-10: 0700604375
ISBN-13: 9780700604371

The focus of this revision is not how Eisenhower made policy, but how his decisions shaped American life in the 1950s and beyond. In this first post-revisionist study of the Eisenhower presidency, historian Chester Pach reaches beyond the issues the revisionists raised: Was Eisenhower in command of his own administration? Did he play a significant role in shaping foreign and domistic policy? Drawing on the wide range of works published within the past decade, Pach expands Elmo Richardson’s 1979 study by nearly one third. In addition to new material on national security policy, Pach de

Author: Dr. James P. Pfiffner PhD
Publisher: TAMU Press
Keywords: hughes, presidency, series, leadership, holly, joseph, second, managerial
Number of Pages: 368
Published: 1999-02-01
List price: $16.95
ISBN-10: 0890968608
ISBN-13: 9780890968604

The focus of this collection is the extent to which presidents can exercise control over the executive branch bureaucracies and whether it is wise for them to exert that control.

Author: Sidney M. Milkis and Michael Nelso
Publisher: CQ Pre
Keywords: american, presidency, development, origins
Number of Pages: 480
Published: 2007-07-17
List price: $54.95
ISBN-10: 0872893367
ISBN-13: 9780872893368

The American Presidency: Origins and Development, 1776-2007, 5th Edition

Author:
Publisher: Church House Publishing
Keywords: presidency, eucharist
Number of Pages: 88
Published: 1997-01-01
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0715138049
ISBN-13: 9780715138045

Author: Clinton Rossiter
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Keywords: presidency, american
Number of Pages: 299
Published: 1987-08-01
List price: $27.00
ISBN-10: 0801835453
ISBN-13: 9780801835452

Author: Jr. Arthur M. Schlesinger
Publisher: Mariner Books
Keywords: presidency, imperial
Number of Pages: 624
Published: 2004-08-12
List price: $16.95
ISBN-10: 0618420010
ISBN-13: 9780618420018

Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., traces the growth of presidential power over two centuries, from George Washington to George W. Bush, examining how it has both served and harmed the Constitution and what Americans can do about it in years to come. The book that gave the phrase "imperial presidency" to the language, this is a significant work of historical scholarship.