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The presidents and the Constitution : a living history
Title
The presidents and the Constitution : a living history / edited by Ken Gormley.
ISBN
9781479839902
1479839906
Publication
New York : New York University Press, [2016]
Physical Description
x, 701 pages ; 25 cm.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
May 17, 2016
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
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.
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