The Presidents and the Constitution : a living history / edited by Ken Gormley.
Contributor(s): Gormley, Ken [editor.]
.Publisher: New York : New York University Press, 2016Description: x, 701 pages.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volume2rdacarrierISBN: 9781479839902.Subject(s): Executive power -- United States -- History | Presidents -- United States -- History | Constitutional history -- United StatesDDC classification: 342.62073 | Item type | Current library | Class number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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| Book | House of Lords Library - Palace Dewey | 342.62073 PRE (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 013444 |
Introduction: an unfinished presidency / Ken Gormley -- Part I. The founding era -- George Washington / Richard J. Ellis -- John Adams / Louis Fisher -- Thomas Jefferson / Cliff Sloan, Louis Fisher, and Moshe Spinowitz -- James Madison / Ralph Ketcham -- James Monroe / Gary Hart -- John Quincy Adams / Jonathan L. Entin -- Part II. The Age of Jackson -- Andrew jackson / Mark A. Graber -- Martin Van Buren / Michael J. Gerhardt -- William Henry Harrison / David Marks Shribman -- John Tyler / Robert J. Spitzer -- James K. Polk / Frank J. Williams -- Part III. The pre-Civil War era -- Zachary Taylor / Paul Finkelman -- Millard Fillmore / Joseph F. Rishel -- Franklin Pierce / Paul Finkelman -- James Buchanan / Thomas A. Horrocks -- Part IV. Civil War and Reconstruction -- Abraham Lincoln / William D. Pederson -- Andrew Johnson / Michael Les Benedict -- Ulysses S. Grant / John F. Marszalek -- Part V. The Gilded Age -- Rutherford B. Hayes / Michael A. Ross -- James A. Garfield / Thomas C. Sutton -- Chester A. Arthur / Thomas C. Sutton -- Grover Cleveland, first term: 1884-1888 / Donald Grier Stephenson Jr -- Benjamin Harrison / Allan B. Spetter -- Grover Cleveland, second term: 1892-1896 / Donald Grier Stephenson Jr -- William McKinley / Thomas C. Sutton -- Part VI. The Progressive Era -- Theodore Roosevelt / William D. Bader -- William Howard Taft / Francine Sanders Romero -- Part VII. World War I and the Great Depression -- Woodrow Wilson / Saladin M. Ambar -- Warren G. Harding / James D. Robenalt -- Calvin Coolidge / John W. Johnson and Dale E. P. Yurs -- Herbert Hoover / John Q. Barrett -- Part VIII. The New Deal and World War II -- Franklin Delano Roosevelt / William D. Pederson -- Harry S. Truman / James N. Giglio -- Part IX. The Civil Rights Era -- Dwight D. Eisenhower / Richard V. Damms -- John F. Kennedy / Barbara A. Perry -- Lyndon B. Johnson / John L. Bullion -- Part X. The Watergate Era and reform -- Richard M. Nixon / Stanley Kutler -- Gerald R. Ford / Jeffrey Crouch -- Jimmy Carter / Scott Kaufman -- Part XI. New conservatives, new democrats, and polarization -- Ronald Reagan / Kenneth W. Starr -- George H. W. Bush / Lori Cox Han -- William Jefferson Clinton / Ken Gormley -- Part XII. National security era: post-9/11 -- George W. Bush / Benjamin A. Kleinerman -- Barack Obama / Michael J. Gerhardt -- Conclusion: an evolving American presidency / Ken Gormley.