How Governors Built the Modern American Presidency

Informationen zum Autor Saladin M. Ambar teaches political science at Lehigh University. Klappentext Saladin M. Ambar teaches political science at Lehigh University. Zusammenfassung Saladin M. Ambar's innovative study is the first book to explicitly credit governors with making the presidency what it is today. This book explodes the idea that the modern presidency began after 1945! instead placing its origins squarely in the Progressive Era. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface Introduction. The Hidden Prince: Unveiling the Presidency's Executive Narrative Chapter 1. Emerging Executives of the Second Republic, 1876-1912 Chapter 2. Theodore Roosevelt and the New American Executive, 1881-1911 Chapter 3. An "Unconstitutional Governor": Woodrow Wilson and the People's Executive Chapter 4. Prince of the Hudson: FDR's Albany Executive Chapter 5. "Undoing the Framers' Work": Executive Power and American Democracy Notes Bibliography Index

Autorentext
Saladin M. Ambar teaches political science at Lehigh University.

Klappentext
Saladin M. Ambar teaches political science at Lehigh University.

Zusammenfassung
Saladin M. Ambar's innovative study is the first book to explicitly credit governors with making the presidency what it is today. This book explodes the idea that the modern presidency began after 1945, instead placing its origins squarely in the Progressive Era.

Inhalt
Preface
Introduction. The Hidden Prince: Unveiling the Presidency's Executive Narrative
Chapter 1. Emerging Executives of the Second Republic, 1876-1912
Chapter 2. Theodore Roosevelt and the New American Executive, 1881-1911
Chapter 3. An "Unconstitutional Governor": Woodrow Wilson and the People's Executive
Chapter 4. Prince of the Hudson: FDR's Albany Executive
Chapter 5. "Undoing the Framers' Work": Executive Power and American Democracy
Notes
Bibliography
Index

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