White House Studies Compendium, Volume 1Robert W. Watson Nova Publishers, 2007 - 528 páginas The American presidency has become one of the most powerful offices in the world with the ascendancy of American power in the 20th century. This book brings together piercing analyses of the American presidency -- dealing with both current issues and historical events. The compendia are the bound issues of 'White House Studies' with the addition of a comprehensive subject index as well as rearranged. |
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Applying Barbers Character Study to the Presidential Spouses | 49 |
Lessons Learned on Getting Started and Exercising Presidential Leadership | 63 |
President George W Bush Cabinet Nominees | 71 |
Abigail Powers Fillmore and the White House Library | 77 |
Betty Bloomer Blossoms | 93 |
Jacqueline Kennedys White House Renovations | 319 |
The White House Project | 327 |
The Home of Andrew Jackson | 337 |
George Washingtons Character and Slavery | 347 |
Speechwriting under Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter | 357 |
Clintons Greatest Legislative Achievement? The Success of the 1993 Budget Reconciliation Bill | 373 |
Ronald Reagan Birthplace | 454 |
Book Reviews on the Presidency | 460 |
Vermonts Brigadoon President Calvin Coolidge State Historic Site | 101 |
The Calvin Coolidge Memorial Foundation | 109 |
The Rhetoric of Presidential Veto Messages | 115 |
A Thorny Business | 135 |
Bleeding Kansas and the Destruction of the Franklin Pierce Presidency 18541856 | 151 |
Carter Congress and the Politics of Airline Deregulation | 163 |
Choices Being Made | 189 |
A Historical Chronology | 201 |
Readings on the White House the Presidential Wives and Washington DC | 205 |
The Love Story of Harry and Bess Truman | 211 |
The Bowdens and Popes Creek Plantation | 221 |
The President Benjamin Harrison Home | 231 |
Is America Ready? | 239 |
Is America Ready for a Woman President? Is the Pope Protestant? Does a Bear Live in a City? | 243 |
Does the Oval Office Have a Glass Ceiling? Gender Stereotypes and Perceptions of Candidate Viability | 257 |
Media Coverage of Nontraditional Candidates | 267 |
Can a Woman be Elected President? Strategic Considerations under Reformed Nomination and Financing Rules | 279 |
Assessing the Pool of Women Candidates for President | 295 |
The Path to the Presidency | 309 |
The First Woman Concept | 315 |
Comparing Leadership Styles FDR to Clinton | 461 |
Reassessing the Office of First Lady | 464 |
How We Choose Our Presidential Nominees | 467 |
Congress and the President in a Partisan Era | 469 |
An Inside View of 200 Years of Private Life in the White House | 471 |
The Politics of Presidential Elections | 473 |
Origins and Development 17761998 | 475 |
Why Elections are Good for Us | 477 |
Presidential Politics and Cold War Strategy | 479 |
In Which the Ladies of Washington Help Build a City and a Government | 480 |
The Revolutionary Generation | 482 |
Leadership Style and the Advisory Process in Foreign Affairs | 484 |
Understanding the Presidency | 486 |
Bill Clintons Legacy in US Politics | 487 |
The Investigation Impeachment and Trial of President Clinton | 490 |
Then and Now | 492 |
Debating the Presidential Nominating Process | 495 |
A Handbook | 496 |
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