Recapturing the Oval Office: New Historical Approaches to the American Presidency

Published by Cornell University Press 2015

Recapturing the Oval Office

New Historical Approaches to the American Presidency

Edited by: Brian Balogh and Bruce J. Schulman

In the series Miller Center of Public Affairs Books

https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501700880

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About this book

Contributors forge an agenda for returning the study of the presidency to the mainstream practice of history, charting how the study of the presidency can be integrated into historical narratives that combine rich analyses of political, social, and cultural history.

Author / Editor information

Brian Balogh is the Compton Professor at the Miller Center and the Corcoran Department of History at the University of Virginia. He is the author of A Government Out of Sight: The Mystery of National Authority in Nineteenth-Century America and editor of Integrating the Sixties: The Origins, Structure and Legacy of a Turbulent Decade. Bruce J. Schulman is the William E. Huntington Professor of History at Boston University. He is the author of From Cotton Belt to Sunbelt: Federal Policy, Economic Development, and the Transformation of the South, 1938–1980; Lyndon B. Johnson and American Liberalism: A Brief Biography with Documents; and The Seventies: The Great Shift in American Culture, Society, and Politics.

Reviews

Fredrik Logevall, Harvard University, author of Embers of War: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America's Vietnam :

A much-needed and altogether excellent effort at addressing a major question in U.S. historical scholarship: where did the presidency go? A stellar cast of contributors take to the task with vigor and skill, and succeed ably in bridging the gap between presidential agency and the structural forces that have long been the primary concern of professional historians.

Elizabeth Cobbs, Hoover Institution and San Diego State University, author of American Umpire:

Recapturing the Oval Office is a delightful book of high literary merit that will have an important impact on the historical profession. I envy the subtlety and forthrightness with which it demolishes shibboleths and sets forth a new agenda for the next generation.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
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Introduction: Confessions of a Presidential Assassin Brian Balogh Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Part I. Balancing Agency and Structure
1. The Unsettled State of Presidential History Stephen Skowronek Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	9
2. Personal Dynamics and Presidential Transitions: The Case of Roosevelt and Truman Frank Costigliola Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	34
3. Narrator-in-Chief: Presidents and the Politics of Economic Crisis from FDR to Obama Alice O’Connor Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	51
Part II. The Social and Cultural Landscape Presidents Confront
4. The Reagan Devolution: Movement Conservatives and the Right’s Days of Rage, 1988–1994 Robert O. Self Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	69
5. There Will Be Oil: Presidents, Wildcat Religion, and the Culture Wars of Pipeline Politics Darren Dochuk Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	93
6. Ike’s World: In Search of Ideology in the Eisenhower Presidency William Hitchcock Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	108
7. Black Appointees, Political Legitimacy, and the American Presidency N. D. B. Connolly Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	123
8. Presidents and the Media Susan Douglas Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	143
9. The Making of the Celebrity Presidency Kathryn Cramer Brownell Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	162
Part III. The Presidency and Political Structure
10. Stand by Me: Coalitions and Presidential Power from a Cross-National Perspective Cathie Jo Martin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	175
11. Taking the Long View: Presidents in a System Stacked against Them Daniel Galvin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	194
12. American Presidential Authority and Economic Expertise since World War II Michael Bernstein Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	211
13. The Changing Presidential Politics of Disaster: From Coolidge to Nixon Gareth Davies Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	233
Conclusion: The Perils and Prospects of Presidential History Bruce Bernstein Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	250
Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	259
List of Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	303
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	307

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Language: English
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Audience: General/trade;
Pages
- Main content: 320
Keywords: Oval Office; American presidency; political history; political economy; presidential agency; structural forces; political science

eBook

Published: November 6, 2015
ISBN: 9781501700880