The presidency and the American State : leadership and decision making in the Adams, Grant, and Taft administrations
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JK511 .R636 2023
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Book
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PubDate
2023
Summary
Examining the presidencies of John Quincy Adams, Ulysses S. Grant, and William Howard Taft, Stephen Rockwell traces emerging connections between presidential action and a robust state over the course of the nineteenth century and the Progressive Era. By analyzing these three undervalued presidents' savvy deployment of state authority and their use of administrative leadership, legislative initiatives, direct executive action, and public communication, Rockwell argues that the nineteenth-century presidency was significantly more developed and interventionist than previously thought--
Month and Year
Fall 2023