Presidential Studies Quarterly articles from June 1997

Presidential Studies Quarterly archives from June 1997

Masters of War: Military Dissent and Politics in the Vietnam Era.
June 22, 1997... ROBERT BUZZANCO, (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996), xiv, 386 pp. $34.95 cloth (ISBN 0-521-48046-9). Forty years after the United States began sliding down the slippery slope of involvement, and twenty years after its ignominious...

The Living and the Dead: Robert McNamara and Five Lives of a Lost War.
June 22, 1997... PAUL HENDRICKSON (New York: Knopf, 1996), x, 427 pp. $27.50 cloth (ISBN 0-67942761-9). Forty years after the United States began sliding down the slippery slope of involvement, and twenty years after its ignominious departure, the specter...

Lincoln.
June 22, 1997... DAVID HERBERT DONALD, (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1996), 714+ pp. $35.00 cloth (ISBN 0-684-80846-3). For better and sometimes for worse, this recent outpouring of books proves, once again, that the Lincoln theme is inexhaustible. The...

Lincoln, Douglas, and Slavery, In the Crucible of Public Debate.
June 22, 1997... DAVID ZAREFSKY, (Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1990), 309+ pp. $16.95 paper (ISBN 0-226-97876-1). For better and sometimes for worse, this recent outpouring of books proves, once again, that the Lincoln theme is inexhaustible....

Lincoln and His Party in the Secession Crisis.
June 22, 1997... DAVID M. POTTER, (Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press, 1995 [1942]) 408+ pp. $16.95 paper (ISBN 0-8071- 2027-8). For better and sometimes for worse, this recent outpouring of books proves, once again, that the Lincoln theme is...

An Oral History of Abraham Lincoln: John G. Nicolay's Interviews and Essays.
June 22, 1997... MICHAEL BURLINGAME, ed., (Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University Press, 1996), 167+ pp. $29.95 cloth (ISBN 0-8093-2054-1). For better and sometimes for worse, this recent outpouring of books proves, once again, that the Lincoln theme...

Abraham Lincoln: Contemporary, An American Legacy.
June 22, 1997... FRANK J. WILLIAMS AND WILLIAM D. PEDERSON, eds., (Campbell, CA: Savas Woodbury Publishers, 1996), 248+ pp. $24.95 cloth (ISBN 1-882810-01-5). For better and sometimes for worse, this recent outpouring of books proves, once again, that the...

Lincoln's Unknown Private Life: An Oral History by His Black Housekeeper Mariah Vance, 1850-60.
June 22, 1997... LLOYD OSTENDORF AND WALTER OLEKSY, eds., (New York: Hastings House, 1995), 260+ pp. $30.00 cloth (ISBN 0-8038-9375-2). For better and sometimes for worse, this recent outpouring of books proves, once again, that the Lincoln theme is...

Principle and Interest: Thomas Jefferson and the Problem of Debt.
June 22, 1997... HERBERT E. SLOAN, (New York: Oxford University Press, 1995), 370 pp., index, cloth $45.00 (ISBN 0-19-505878-X). Understandably, Thomas Jefferson has been the subject of an immense amount of research and writing, with one generation 6f...

The Revolt of the Elites and the Betrayal of Democracy.
June 22, 1997... CHRISTOPHER LASCH, (New York: W. W. Norton, 1995), x, 276 pp. $22.00 hardcover (ISBN 0-39303699-5). On the last page of Lasch's final and most important work, he wrote: "What makes the modern temper modern, then, is not that we have lost...

The Long Fuse: How England Lost the American Colonies, 1760-1785.
June 22, 1997... DON COOK, (New York: The Atlantic Monthly Press, 1995), xiii, 416 pp. including notes, bibliography, and index $24.00 hardcover (ISBN 0-87113-588-4). History too often is one-sided. Just as the spoils belong to the victor, so is history...

Bridled Ambition: Why Countries Constrain Their Nuclear Capabilities.
June 22, 1997... MITCHELL REISS, (Washington, D.C.: The Woodrow Wilson Center, Press, 1995), 346 pp. $16.95 paper (ISBN 0-943875-71-4). Much recent research has examined the issue of nuclear nonproliferation. While the nuclear nonproliferation regime...

For Cause and Comrades: Why Men Fought in the Civil War.
June 22, 1997... JAMES M. MCPHERSON (New York: Oxford University Press, 1997), xviii, 237 pp. $25.00 cloth (ISBN 0-19-509023-3). Using over 25,000 letter, 250 private diaries, and information collected from twenty-two research libraries, James McPherson...

The Next War.
June 22, 1997... CASPAR WEINBERGER AND PETER SCHWEIZER. (Washington, D.C. Regnery Publishing, Inc., 1996), 470 pp. $27.50 cloth (ISBN 0-89526-447-1). Imagine a town cutting the budget of a fire department that douses fires too quickly. That is just what the...

The Contemporary Congress.
June 22, 1997... BURDETT A. LOOMIS, (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1996), 187 pp. $45.00 cloth (ISBN 0-312-12305-1), $13.00 paper ISBN (0-312-10399-9). There is much to learn from this book. It includes all of the important segments, from party structure to...

Founding Father: Rediscovering George Washington.
June 22, 1997... RICHARD BROOKHISER, (New York: The Free Press, 1996), 230 pp. $25.00 hardcover (ISBN 0-684-82291-1). Americans know him as the father of our country. We are taught early and often that he, perhaps more than any single individual, was...

Reflections of a Cold Warrior: From Yalta to the Bay of Pigs.
June 22, 1997... RICHARD M. BISSELL, JR., WITH JONATHAN E. LEWIS AND FRANCES T. PUDLO, (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1996), 250 pp. plus notes $30.00 cloth (ISBN 0-30006430-6). If John LeCarre were to write a novel about the ultimate American...

From START to START II: dynamism and pragmatism in the Bush administration's nuclear weapon policies. (President George Bush)
June 22, 1997... During the fall of 1989, the Cold War that had waged between East and West for more than four long decades came to a rapid halt. Communism, which had consumed and shaped the thinking of most American policy makers during this time, was rapidly...

Presidential beliefs and the Reagan paradox. (Ronald Reagan)
June 22, 1997... On December 8, 1987, President Reagan and General Secretary Gorbachev signed the Intermediate Nuclear Forces (INF) treaty in Washington, D.C. The treaty was followed seven months later by the sight of a friendly Reagan and Gorbachev strolling...

Ronald Reagan and the defeat of the Soviet empire.
June 22, 1997... American policy in the 1980s was a catalyst for the collapse of the Soviet Union. Former KGB General Oleg Kalugin(1) In 1980, the Soviet Union threatened the survival of the United States, her allies, and the very principle of...

"In an atmosphere of national peril": the development of John F. Kennedy's world view.
June 22, 1997... It is customarily recognized that President John F. Kennedy was more interested in foreign than domestic policy,(1) determined to be practical instead of idealistic,(2) and, as some scholars have suggested, displayed weaknesses in...

Containing the offensive: the "chief of the cold war" and the Eisenhower administration's German policy. (Dwight D. Eisenhower)
June 22, 1997... As you and your associates gather to discuss ways to improve our penetration of the Iron Curtain, I give full endorsement to your efforts. I learned the importance of truth as a weapon in the midst of battle. I am sure that to win the peace, we...

Public opinion and foreign policy: the Nixon administration and the pursuit of peace with honor in Vietnam. (Richard M. Nixon)
June 22, 1997... Long after the Communist takeover, American academics still battle over how and why the United States lost the Vietnam War.(1) Adherents of the conventional" school maintain that U.S. policy makers mistakenly imposed a global conception of...

After Tiananmen: the struggle over U.S. policy toward China in the Bush administration. (George Bush)
June 22, 1997... The end of the Cold War alters the making of U.S.. foreign policy along two routes. Most directly, the Cold War's conclusion shifts the character of the international environment at which U.S. foreign policy is targeted, including the...

The first lady represents America: Rosalynn Carter in South America.
June 22, 1997... Representation and accountability are two crucial elements in our democratic system. An elected official both stands for the constituency group and acts for the people represented. Presidents must assume both the passive and active role of...

Lincoln and the political question: the creation of the state of West Virginia. (Abraham Lincoln)
June 22, 1997... West Virginia is a child of the Civil War--a state made possible by the extraordinary chaos and opportunities that such upheavals bring. For the war generation and for those interested ever since, that episode created confusing constitutional...

F.W. de Klerk and Nelson Mandela: a study in cooperative transformational leadership.
June 22, 1997... This study examines the transfer of power in South Africa, focusing on the interactions of leadership policies, strategies, and personal characteristics of F. W. de Klerk and Nelson Mandela. The revolution that these men have helped bring...

Rating the presidents: a tracking study.
June 22, 1997... Between 1982 and 1994, the Siena Research Institute completed and released three Presidential Ratings Studies. Each was administered approximately one year after the inauguration of a new president. For the first of the three presidents,...