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Subject(s)

• Presidents—United States—History—20th century [Browse]
• Executive power—United States—History—20th century [Browse]
• United States—Politics and government—20th century [Browse]

Editor

• Balogh, Brian [Browse]
• Schulman, Bruce J. [Browse]

Series

UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. History. [More in this series]

Contains

Skowronek, Stephen. Unsettled state of presidential history. [Browse]

Summary note

Several generations of historians figuratively abandoned the Oval Office as the bastion of out-of-fashion stories of great men. And now, decades later, the historical analysis of the American presidency remains on the outskirts of historical scholarship, even as policy and political history have rebounded within the academy. In Recapturing the Oval Office, leading historians and social scientists forge an agenda for returning the study of the presidency to the mainstream practice of history and they chart how the study of the presidency can be integrated into historical narratives that combine rich analyses of political, social, and cultural history. The authors demonstrate how "bringing the presidency back in" can deepen understanding of crucial questions regarding race relations, religion, and political economy. The contributors illuminate the conditions that have both empowered and limited past presidents, and thus show how social, cultural, and political contexts matter. By making the history of the presidency a serious part of the scholarly agenda in the future, historians have the opportunity to influence debates about the proper role of the president today. Contributors: Brian Balogh, University of Virginia; Michael A. Bernstein, Tulane University; Kathryn Cramer Brownell, Purdue University; N.D.B. Connolly, The Johns Hopkins University; Frank Costigliola, University of Connecticut; Gareth Davies, University of Oxford; Darren Dochuk, Washington University; Susan J. Douglas, University of Michigan; Daniel J. Galvin, Northwestern University; William I. Hitchcock, University of Virginia; Cathie Jo Martin, Boston University; Alice O'Connor, University of California, Santa Barbara; Bruce J. Schulman, Boston University; Robert O. Self, Brown University; Stephen Skowronek, Yale University.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Contents

• Introduction : confessions of a presidential assassin / Brian Balogh
• The unsettled state of presidential history / Stephen Skowronek
• Personal dynamics and presidential transitions : the case of Roosevelt and Truman / Frank Costigliola
• Narrator in chief : presidents and the politics of economic crisis from FDR to Barack Obama / Alice O'Connor
• The Reagan devolution : movement conservatives and the right's days of rage, 1988-1994 / Robert O. Self
• There will be oil : presidents, wildcat religion, and the culture wars of pipeline politics / Darren Dochuk
• Ike's world : ideology and power in Eisenhower's national strategy / William Hitchcock
• Black appointees, political legitimacy, and the American presidency / Nathan Connolly
• Presidents and the media / Susan J. Douglas
• The making of the celebrity president / Kathryn Cramer Brownell
• Stand by me : coalitions and presidential power from a cross-national perspective / Cathie Jo Martin
• Taking the long view : presidents in a system stacked against them / Daniel Galvin
• American presidential authority and economic expertise since World War II / Michael A. Bernstein
• The changing presidential politics of disaster from Coolidge to Nixon / Gareth Davies
• Conclusion : the perils and prospects of presidential history / Bruce J. Schulman.

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ISBN

• 9781501700873 ((epub))
• 1501700871
• 9781501700880 ((electronic bk.))
• 150170088X ((electronic bk.))

LCCN

2019724667

OCLC

• 919920250
• 1162513952

Doi

• 10.7591/9781501700880

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