Presidential Studies Quarterly articles from March 2004

Presidential Studies Quarterly archives from March 2004

From the editor.(Editorial)
March 1, 2004... On October 31, 2003, the nation lost its preeminent student of the American presidency when Richard Elliott Neustadt died at the age of 84. A giant in the field of American politics and a loyal friend, a selfless colleague, and an irreplaceable...

Richard Elliott Neustadt, 1919-2003: a tribute.(In Memoriam)(Obituary)
March 1, 2004... Richard Elliott Neustadt was an academic who throughout his lifetime combined politics and practice in his area of American politics in a unique manner benefiting the academic and governmental institutions in which he worked. Neustadt died...

Richard E. Neustadt as teacher and mentor: a personal reflection.(Biography)
March 1, 2004... I first encountered Dick Neustadt when I walked into his graduate class on the presidency at Columbia University in the fall of 1962. A small but intense man, at least as judged by his chain smoking, he conducted a rather large class in a very...

Richard E. Neustadt's intellectual contributions.(Biography)
March 1, 2004... Richard Neustadt made many contributions to the study of the presidency during his distinguished and prolific career. He began his own observations through total immersion in the institution itself. From 1946 until 1953, he worked first for the...

Did President Bush mislead the country in his arguments for war with Iraq?(Critical Essay)
March 1, 2004... President Bush has been accused by some in the popular press of lying in his arguments for taking the United States to war with Iraq in 2003. But in order to make judgments about the accuracy of the president's statements, the claims must be...

Introduction.
March 1, 2004... This special issue was conceived in the autumn of 2002, at a time when the administration of George W. Bush appeared to be moving toward war against Iraq. Presidential Studies Quarterly editor George Edwards and I decided that there might be...

McKinley and the Spanish-American war.
March 1, 2004... This article describes and analyzes President William McKinley's foreign and domestic policies that led to the Spanish-American War of 1898. On the domestic side it includes congressional partisan politics, economic and business concerns,...

Woodrow Wilson and World War I.
March 1, 2004... On February 4, 1915, the Imperial German government announced the establishment of a war zone in the waters surrounding the British Isles. (1) In that zone, German submarines would sink Allied ships on sight, and because the Allies frequently...

Franklin D. Roosevelt and World War II.
March 1, 2004... "Roosevelt 'had said that he would wage war, but not declare it, and that he would become more and more provocative.'" So reported British Prime Minister Winston Churchill to his cabinet upon his return to London in August 1941, following...

Lyndon Johnson and Vietnam.
March 1, 2004... In 1965, the United States under Lyndon B. Johnson entered large-scale war in Vietnam. It did so incrementally, over a period of several months in the first half of the year. The contingency planning for war, however, went back considerably...

George Bush and the Gulf War of 1991.
March 1, 2004... "This Will Not Stand" The Gulf War of 1991 grew out of a pair of miscalculations. American officials underestimated the depth of Iraqi grievance against Kuwait at the end of the Iran-Iraq war of 1980-1988, including the willingness of...

The contemporary presidency: George W. Bush and the myth of heroic presidential leadership.(Critical Essay)(Biography)
March 1, 2004... On September 11, 2001, the lead story on the CNN early morning news centered on speculation that Michael Jordan was planning to come out of retirement and resume playing basketball. The story preoccupied the American media; after all, three...

Elections: personal popularity in U.S. presidential elections.
March 1, 2004... As Election Day 2004 approaches, there will undoubtedly be a lot of talk concerning which major party candidate is most personally appealing. A commonly held view is that presidential elections are largely personality contests, and that the...

The law: termination of the ABM Treaty and the political question doctrine: judicial succor for presidential power.
March 1, 2004... President George W. Bush's unilateral termination of the 1972 ABM Treaty between the United States and Russia, (1) an act overshadowed by the trauma, chaos, and confusion that gripped the nation in the weeks and months following the September...

Understanding Lincoln.(The Real Lincoln: A New Look at Abraham Lincoln, His Agenda, and an Unnecessary War)(Lincoln & Davis: Imagining America, 1809-1865)(Judging Lincoln)(Book Review)
March 1, 2004... The Real Lincoln: A New Look at Abraham Lincoln, His Agenda, and an Unnecessary War. By Thomas J. DiLorenzo. Roseville, CA: Forum/Prima Publishing, 2002. 333 pp. Lincoln & Davis: Imagining America, 1809-1865. By Brian R. Dirck. Lawrence:...

The Evolution of Presidential Polling.(Book Review)
March 1, 2004... The Evolution of Presidential Polling. By Robert M. Eisinger. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003. v, 218 pp. In this excellent new book, Robert Eisinger insightfully examines the development of private public opinion polling by...

The Modern American Presidency.(Book Review)
March 1, 2004... The Modern American Presidency. By Lewis L. Gould. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2003. xv, 301 pp. When did the "modern presidency" begin? And of what does it consist? Lewis L. Gould, professor emeritus of history at the University...

Ronald Reagan: the Power of Conviction and the Success of His Presidency.(Book Review)
March 1, 2004... Ronald Reagan: The Power of Conviction and the Success of His Presidency. By Peter J. Wallison. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 2003. 282 pp. Some presidents do not experience a revival of their reputations until long after they have left...

Reassessing the Reagan Presidency.(Book Review)
March 1, 2004... Reassessing the Reagan Presidency. Edited by Richard S. Conley. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 2003. xvi, 268 pp. Variously compared to Franklin Roosevelt, Dwight Eisenhower, Margaret Thatcher, and the village idiot, Ronald Reagan...

Constructing Clinton: Hyperreality and Presidential Image-Making in Postmodern Politics.(Book Review)
March 1, 2004... Constructing Clinton: Hyperreality and Presidential Image-Making in Postmodern Politics. By Shawn J. Parry-Giles and Trevor Parry-Giles. New York: Peter Lang Publishing, Inc., 2002. 245 pp. Shawn Parry-Giles and Trevor Parry-Giles believe...

New Media Millennium: Federal and State Executive Press Aides and Ambition Theory.(Book Review)
March 1, 2004... New Media Millennium: Federal and State Executive Press Aides and Ambition Theory. By William C. Spragens. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 2003. 162 pp. A primer about press secretaries and government-press relations since 1981,...

Between Law and Politics: the Solicitor General and the Structuring of Race, Gender, and Reproductive Rights Litigation.(Book Review)
March 1, 2004... Between Law and Politics: The Solicitor General and the Structuring of Race, Gender, and Reproductive Rights Litigation. By Richard L. Pacelle, Jr. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2003. 342 pp. Pacelle has produced an...

You Call This an Election? America's Peculiar Democracy.(Book Review)
March 1, 2004... You Call This an Election? America's Peculiar Democracy. By Steven E. Schier. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 2003. 166 pp. You Call This an Election? is a slim volume that raises important philosophical questions about...

The 2000 Presidential Campaign: a Communication Perspective.(Book Review)
March 1, 2004... The 2000 Presidential Campaign: A Communication Perspective. Edited by Robert E. Denton, Jr. Westport, CT: Praeger, 2002. 278 pp. The subtitle provides the key to understanding the approach taken by contributors to this edited collection of...

The Primary Decision: a Functional Analysis of Debates in Presidential Primaries.(Book Review)
March 1, 2004... The Primary Decision: A Functional Analysis of Debates in Presidential Primaries. By William L. Benoit, P. M. Pier, LeAnn M. Brazeal, John P. McHale, Andrew Klyukovski, and David Airne. Westport, CT: Praeger, 2002. 153 pp. This is a book...