Presidential Studies Quarterly articles from March 1999

Presidential Studies Quarterly archives from March 1999

The Presidency, Social Movements, and Contentious Change: Lessons from the Woman's Suffrage and Labor Movements.
March 1, 1999... No less than other specialized research fields in political science and history, presidency scholarship can exemplify many conceits regarding the causal power and transformative effects that its primary subject, the executive office, bestows on...

Political Parties, Candidates, and Presidential Campaigns: 1952-1996.
March 1, 1999... The extensive literature on the decline of political parties has described the significant changes in party organizations and their relevance to the nomination of presidential candidates. What this literature has so far neglected is the...

Comparing News and Editorial Coverage of the 1996 Presidential Nominating Campaign.
March 1, 1999... Most studies on media coverage of presidential campaigns build on Thomas Patterson's argument that the "game" schema guides the selection and interpretation of campaign events.(1) Journalists view candidates as players in a game who are...

Media Feeding Frenzies: Press Behavior during Two Clinton Scandals.
March 1, 1999... We have witnessed in recent years numerous political scandals at the highest level of American government. Given the power of media, press behavior during these scandals is an increasingly relevant topic for examination. Most recently,...

Origin of the 1948 Turnip Day Session of Congress.
March 1, 1999... In August 1996, as President Bill Clinton's train, the Twenty-First Century Express, made campaign stops en route to the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, I thought back to another Democratic president, Harry S. Truman. In 1948,...

Inside Lincoln's Clemency Decision Making.
March 1, 1999... The exercise of the clemency power has been a major source of controversy in few presidential administrations. On occasion, however, exercise of the president's constitutional power to "grant pardons and reprieves for offenses against the...

The Presidency as a Learning Organization.
March 1, 1999... The purpose of this article is to explain the process of large-scale policy development in a presidential administration by using an analytical tool presidency scholars have tended to neglect--organizational learning, a branch of organization...

Can the Twenty-Fifth Amendment Deal with a Disabled President? Preventing Future White House Cover-Ups.
March 1, 1999... Presidential infirmity, accompanied by a failure to fully inform the public, has been stamped indelibly on our history during the past two hundred years. Fourteen of the eighteen American presidents in the twentieth century had significant...

Seeing the Lyndon B. Johnson Presidency through the March 31, 1968, Withdrawal Speech.
March 1, 1999... Speaking from the Oval Office in a nationally televised address on March 31, 1968, President Lyndon B. Johnson stunned the nation with his announcement that he no longer was a candidate for the Democratic nomination for president. Because the...

The Making of the Ex-Presidents, 1797-1993: Six Recurrent Models.
March 1, 1999... Historians have long indulged in the exercise of categorizing U.S. presidents into groupings such as "great," "near great," "average," and "failures." Given the expanded profiles now enjoyed by retired chief executives, it is perhaps time to...

Looking Back at Chief Executives: Retrospective Presidential Approval.
March 1, 1999... Americans hold their chief executive in high esteem. Schoolchildren view the president as a benevolent and capable leader, a person who symbolizes the good in the American system of government.(1) Feelings of awe for the president wane with the...

Affirmative Action and the Presidential Role in Modern Civil Rights Reform: A Sampler of Books of the 1990s.
March 1, 1999... Equal Employment Opportunity/Disparate Impact Primary sources of employment affirmative action are authoritatively documented in Hugh Davis Graham's magisterial The Civil Rights Era (New York: Oxford University Press, 1990). One major...

The Paris Years of Thomas Jefferson.(Review)
March 1, 1999... WILLIAM HOWARD ADAMS, The Paris Years of Thomas Jefferson (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1997), 354 pp., index, $30.00 cloth (ISBN 0-300-06903-0). Jefferson's experiences in Paris during the 1780s have attracted the attention of...

Vindicating the Founders: Race, Sex, Class, and Justice in the Origins of America.(Review)
March 1, 1999... THOMAS G. WEST, Vindicating the Founders: Race, Sex, Class, and Justice in the Origins of America (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 1997), 219 pp., $22.95 cloth (ISBN 0-8476-8516-0). This is an important book about the history of political...

President Grant Reconsidered.(Review)
March 1, 1999... FRANK J. SCATURRO, President Grant Reconsidered (Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1998), 137 pp., $34.50 cloth (ISBN 0-7618-1078). When the name Ulysses Grant as president comes up, it almost always is coupled with the word...

Teddy Roosevelt at San Juan: The Making of a President.(Review)
March 1, 1999... PEGGY SAMUELS AND HAROLD SAMUELS, Teddy Roosevelt at San Juan: The Making of a President (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1997), 374 pp., $39.95 cloth (ISBN: 0-89096-771-7). Peggy and Harold Samuels analyze Teddy Roosevelt and...

Presidential Personality and Performance.(Review)
March 1, 1999... ALEXANDER L. GEORGE AND JULIETTE L. GEORGE, Presidential Personality and Performance (Boulder, CO: Westview, 1998), 287 pp., $75.00 hardcover (ISBN 0-8133-2590-0), $25.00 paper (ISBN 0-8133-2591-9). In Presidential Personality and...

FDR and the Modern Presidency: Leadership and Legacy.(Review)
March 1, 1999... MARK J. ROZELL AND WILLIAM D. PEDERSON, eds., FDR and the Modern Presidency: Leadership and Legacy (Westport, CT: Praeger, 1997), 242 pp., $59.95 hardcover (ISBN 0-275-95873-6). Just as Herbert Hoover represented the end of an era, the...

The Dying President: Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1944-1945.(Review)
March 1, 1999... ROBERT H. FERRELL, The Dying President: Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1944-1945 (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1998), 185 pp., $24.95 cloth (ISBN 0-8262-1171-2). This short but satisfying study reviews, updates, and adds to our...

Mutual Contempt: Lyndon Johnson, Robert Kennedy, and the Feud that Defined a Decade.(Review)
March 1, 1999... JEFF SHESOL, Mutual Contempt: Lyndon Johnson, Robert Kennedy, and the Feud that Defined a Decade (New York: Norton, 1997), 475 pp., $32.50 cloth (ISBN 0-393-04078-X). How did the Lyndon B. Johnson-Robert Kennedy "feud" influence American...

The Dark Side of Camelot.(Review)
March 1, 1999... SEYMOUR M. HERSH, The Dark Side of Camelot (Boston: Little, Brown, 1997), 498 pp., $26.95 cloth (ISBN 0-3160-35955-6). Few leaders better symbolize the tension between public image and private reality than John F. Kennedy does. Scholars,...

The Kennedy Obsession: The American Myth of JFK.(Review)
March 1, 1999... JOHN HELLMANN, The Kennedy Obsession: The American Myth of JFK (New York: Columbia University Press, 1997), 205 pp., $29.50 cloth (ISBN 0-231-10798-6). Few leaders better symbolize the tension between public image and private reality than...

Locked in the Cabinet.(Review)
March 1, 1999... ROBERT B. REICH, Locked in the Cabinet (New York: Knopf, 1997), 338 pp., $25.00 cloth (ISBN 0-375-40064-8). Robert Reich, secretary of labor during the first Clinton administration, tells the story of his travel from academic to top...

All the Presidents' Words: The Bully Pulpit and the Creation of the Virtual Presidency.(Review)
March 1, 1999... CAROL GELDERMAN, All the Presidents' Words: The Bully Pulpit and the Creation of the Virtual Presidency (New York: Walker, 1997), 221 pp., $23.00 hardcover (ISBN 0-8027-1318-1). Carol Gelderman offers an examination of the process of speech...

Star-Spangled Men: America's Ten Worst Presidents.(Review)
March 1, 1999... NATHAN MILLER, Star-Spangled Men: America's Ten Worst Presidents (New York: Scribner, 1998), 272 pp., $23.00 hardcover (ISBN 0-684-83610-6). Although the end of a century normally produces "best of" lists, Nathan Miller has chosen to...