TY  - BOOK
AU  - Suri,Jeremi
TI  - The impossible presidency: the rise and fall of America's highest office 
SN  - 9780465051731
U1  - 352.230973 
PY  - 2017///
CY  - New York
PB  - Basic Books
KW  - Presidents
KW  - United States
KW  - History
KW  - Political leadership
KW  - Executive power
KW  - Biography
KW  - Politics and government
N1  - Introduction: alone -- Part 1. Rise -- 1. Origins -- 
2. First executive -- 3. People's president --  4. Poet at war -- 5. Progressive president -- 6. National healer -- Part 2. Fall. -- 7. Frustrated frontiersmen -- 8. Leading actor -- 9. Magicians of possibility -- Epilogue: new beginning
N2  - "Why have recent presidents failed to create the change they promised? Should we blame the individual men, all flawed in their own ways? Or are there fundamental reasons why modern presidents fail to deliver, time and time again? In The Impossible Presidency, historian Jeremi Suri charts the long rise and quick fall of the world's most important job, from the 1790s to the present day. As he shows, early presidents greatly expanded the power of the office beyond the limited role envisioned by the founders. Suri argues that the immense accomplishments of Washington, Jackson, Lincoln and FDR left their successors with outsized and unrealistic expectations. John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson and Ronald Reagan lost control of their agendas as they were buffeted by the onrush of events and threats their predecessors never had to face. Clinton and Obama were propelled to the presidency by their personal stories but hamstrung by prurient, partisan, and prejudiced criticisms of their leadership. Contemporary presidents must react to a truly globalized world and a rapid twenty-four-our news cycle. There is little room left for bold, strategic thinking. Suri traces our disenchantment with recent presidents to the current mismatch between presidential promises and the limitations of the office." --
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