Presidential Studies Quarterly articles from September 1997

Presidential Studies Quarterly archives from September 1997

Eisenhower and the Crusade for Freedom: the rhetorical origins of a Cold War campaign.(Rules of the Game: How to Play the Presidency)
September 22, 1997... For there is no influence more dangerous and disruptive to the totalitarian state than the knowledge on the part of its subjects that somewhere else in the world there still is such a thing as freedom, and the fiant, stubborn hope that they, too,...

To defeat a maverick: the Goldwater candidacy revisited, 1963-1964.(Rules of the Game: How to Play the Presidency)
September 22, 1997... More than three decades ago, President Lyndon B. Johnson overwhelmed Arizona's favorite son in the 1964 presidential election. The magnitude of Barry M. Goldwater's defeat--the senator carried six states--has reduced his candidacy to an...

Policy experts in presidential campaigns: a model of think tank recruitment.(Rules of the Game: How to Play the Presidency)
September 22, 1997... Throughout the 1996 presidential campaign, candidates drew on the advice of academics, party members, former government officials, pollsters, consultants, business leaders, and union and interest group representatives. Moreover, as in previous...

The American dream as depicted in Robert J. Dole's 1996 presidential nomination acceptance speech.(Rules of the Game: How to Play the Presidency)
September 22, 1997... On the night of August 15, 1996; as he accepted his party's nomination for President of the United States, Robert Dole took an expansive view of the impending election. "My friends," he said, "a presidential campaign is more than a contest of...

Advancing the dates of presidential primaries: the case of California and New York.(Rules of the Game: How to Play the Presidency)
September 22, 1997... Both the sequence and spacing of presidential primaries, it is widely asserted, play an important part in determining which candidates receive their parties' nominations. Candidates and consultants, reporters and pundits, all behave as if it...

Presidential inaugural addresses and American political culture.(Rules of the Game: How to Play the Presidency)
September 22, 1997... In an important essay on American political culture, J. David Greenstone took his thesis from a sermon by Theodore Parker, the prominent nineteenth-century transcendentalist minister, entitled, "A Discourse of the Transient and Permanent in...

Former Governor's perceptions of a presidential line-item veto.(Rules of the Game: How to Play the Presidency)
September 22, 1997... There has been a considerable amount of debate in recent years about whether or not providing the president of the United States with the line-item veto is a good idea. Understanding the potential impacts of such a power has taken on a greater...

Executive privilege in the Reagan administration: diluting a constitutional doctrine.(Rules of the Game: How to Play the Presidency)
September 22, 1997... To its defenders, the Reagan administration brought about a revival of effective presidential leadership after a sequence of "failed" presidencies. According to this view, Reagan refuted the political science theories of the "impeniled"...

To purge or not to purge: Hamlet Harry and the Dixiecrats, 1948-1952. (Harry Truman)(Rules of the Game: How to Play the Presidency)
September 22, 1997... Intra-Party Conflict and Party Leadership Political scientist Angelo, Panebianco has argued "that the principal cause of intra-party conflicts is to be found in the party's internal system of inequalities."(1) Thus, dissident members...

Missing the bus: Gerald Ford and school desegregation.(Rules of the Game: How to Play the Presidency)
September 22, 1997... In 1957, as Little Rock, Arkansas began its court-ordered school desegregation, a Boston clergyman telephoned a Little Rock colleague to insure that the church was doing its part. In 1974, as Boston commenced its court-ordered school...

The first lady reconsidered: presidential partner and political institution.(Rules of the Game: How to Play the Presidency)
September 22, 1997... It is sad and telling that the press and public alike are unaware that Presidential wives since Abigail Adams have been wielding political influence. Edith Mayo, Director Smithsonian First Ladies Exhibit Being first lady...

The president's visual image from 1945 to 1974: an analysis of spatial configuration in news magazine photographs.(Rules of the Game: How to Play the Presidency)
September 22, 1997... Researchers in the fields political and visual communication recognized the important relationship between visual imagery, public opinion, and voting intention.(1) Facial characteristics, picture composition, and a variety of other visual and...

Drugs in the Western Hemisphere: An Odyssey of Cultures in Conflict.
September 22, 1997... WILLIAM O. WALKER III, ED., Drugs in the Western Hemisphere: An Odyssey of Cultures in Conflict (Wilmington, DE: Scholarly Resources Inc., 1996), 262 pp. $45.00 cloth (ISBN 0-8420-2422-0) $16.95 paper (ISBN 0-8420-2426-3). Presidential...

Tragic Failure: Racial Integration in America.
September 22, 1997... TOM WICKER, Tragic Failure: Racial Integration in America (New York: William Morrow & Co., 1996), 218 pp. $25.00 cloth (ISBN 0-688-10629-3). Presidential power has its limits. Even the widely recognized symbolism and power to persuade that...

Boomerang: Clinton's Health Security Effort and the Turn Against Government in U.S. Politics.
September 22, 1997... THEDA SKOCPOL, Boomerang: Clinton's Health Security Effort and the Turn Againts Government in U.S. Politics (New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 1996), 288 pp. $27.50 cloth (ISBN 0-393-03970-6). Presidential power has its limits. Even the widely...

No Neutral Ground? Abortion Politics in an Age of Absolutes.
September 22, 1997... KAREN O'CONNOR, No Neutral Ground? Abortion Politics in an Age of Absolutes (Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1996), 181+ pp. $45.00 cloth $13.95 paper (ISBN 0-8133-1946-3). Karen O'Connor, in her new book, No Neutral Ground? Abortion Politics...

Shadows of Vietnam: Lyndon Johnson's Wars.
September 22, 1997... FRANK E. VANDIMER, Shadows of Vietnam: Lydon Johnson's Wars 480 pp. $29.95 cloth (ISBN 0-89096-747-4). If you want to know precisely what went wrong in Vietnam, this is the book for you. It's a fine study of the war presidency of Lyndon...

War Powers: The President, the Congress and the Question of War.
September 22, 1997... DONALD L. WESTERFIELD, War Powers: The President, the Congress and the Question of War (Westport, CT: Praeger, 1996), 245 pp. $55.00 cloth (ISBN 0-275-94701-7). Who should be the deciding authority when the nation moves from peace to war,...

Bitter Harvest: FDR, Presidential Power and the Growth of the Presidential Branch.
September 22, 1997... MATTHEW J. DICKINSON, Bitter Harvest: FDR, President Power and the Growth of the Presidential Branch (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996), 235+ pp. $49.95 cloth (ISBN 0-521-48193-7). Author Dickinson set for himself a rather...

Who's in Control: Polar Politics and the Sensible Center.
September 22, 1997... RICHARD DARMAN, Who's in Control: Polar Politics and the Sensible Center (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1996), 349 pp. $25.00 cloth (ISBN 0-684-81123-5). Richard Darman has written a most interesting book about the current status of politics...

Making Civil Rights Law: Thurgood Marshall and the Supreme Court, 1936-1961.
September 22, 1997... MARK V. TUSHNET, Making Civil Rights Law: Thurgood Marshall and the Supreme Court, (New York: Oxford University Press, 1994), 399+ pp. $17.95 paper (ISBN 0-19-510468-4). This well-written and thoroughly-researched book is rewarding to read....

The Psychological Assessment of Presidential Candidates.
September 22, 1997... STANLEY A. RENSHON, The Psychological Assessment of Presidential Candidates (New York: New York University Press, 1996), 438 pp. $34.95 cloth (ISBN 0-8147-7469-5). Stanley A. Renshon's Psychological Assessment of Presidential Candidates...

No So! Popular Myths About America from Columbus to Clinton.
September 22, 1997... PAUL F. BOLLER, JR., Not So! Popular Myths About America from Columbus to Clinton (New York: Oxford University Press, 1995), 245+ pp. $22.00 cloth (ISBN 0-19-509186-8). This book is an enjoyable and highly readable exploration of what...

American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson.
September 22, 1997... JOSEPH J. ELLIS, American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1997), 307+ pp. $26.00 cloth (ISBN 0-679-44490-4). Joseph J. Ellis postulates that the iconization of one of the most revered of the Founding...

The Legacy of Woodrow Wilson.
September 22, 1997... DAVID M. ESPOSITO, The Legacy of Woodrow Wilson (Westport, CT: Praeger Publishers, 1996), 159, pp. $44.00 cloth (ISBN 0-275-95493-5). Woodrow Wilson's eight years in the White House, symbolized by his efforts to keep the United States out,...

Nothing to Read: Newspapers and Elections in a Social Experiment.
September 22, 1997... JEFFREY J. MONDAK, Nothing to Read: Newspapers and Elections in a Social Experiment (Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michican Press, 1996), $16.95 paper (ISBN 0-472-06599-8). As Americans become increasingly cynical about politics and surveys...

Breaking the News: How the Media Undermine American Democracy.
September 22, 1997... JAMES FALLOWS, Breaking the News: How the Media Undermine American Democracy (New York: Pantheon, 1996), $23.00 cloth (ISBN 0-679-44209-X). As Americans become increasingly cynical about politics and surveys evidence a public largely...

Feeding the Beast.
September 22, 1997... KENNETH T. WALSH, Feeding the Beast (New York: Random House, 1996), 305 + pp. $25.00 cloth (ISBN 0-679-44290-1). This excellent work by a reporter, and writer, who had first-hand knowledge of the interplay between government and the press,...

Representing Women: Myths of Femininity in the Popular Media.
September 22, 1997... MYRA MACDONALD, Representing Women: Myths of Femininity in the Popular Media (London and New York: Hodder Headline and St. Martin's Press, 1995), 250 pp. $59.95 cloth (ISBN 0-340-63221-6), $16.95 paper (ISBN 0-340-580196-X). What has been...

Affairs of State: The Rise and Rejection of the Presidential Couple Since World War II.
September 22, 1997... GIL TROY, Affairs of State: The Rise and Rejection of the Presidential Couple Since World War II (New York: The Free Press, 1997), 486 pp. $27.50 cloth (ISBN 0-684-82820-0). For years mainstream presidential scholarship ignored examining...

Her Excellency: An Oral History of American Women Ambassadors.
September 22, 1997... ANN MILLER MORIN, Her Excellency: An Oral History of American Women Ambassadors (New York: Twayne Publishers, 1995) 315 pp. $27.95 cloth (ISBN 0-80579118-3), $16.95 paper (ISBN 0-8057-9142-6). This important book is part of Twayne...

Women as Candidates in American Politics, 2d ed.
September 22, 1997... SUSAN J. CARROLL, Women as Candidates in American Politics, Second Edition (Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1994), 174 + pp. $31.50 cloth (ISBN 0-253-31319-8), $13.95 paper (ISBN 0-253-20877-7). In 1976, Susan J. Carroll conducted...

America's Royalty: All the President's Children.
September 22, 1997... SANDRA L. QUINN-MUSGROVE AND SANFORD KANTER, America's Royalty: All the President's Children (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1995), 320 pp. including Notes, Bibliography and Index $59.95 hardcover (ISBN 0-313-29535-2). Presidents are...