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OverviewAlthough many associate Franklin D. Roosevelt with the inauguration of the robust, dominant American presidency, the roots of his executive leadership style go much deeper. 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 makes a compelling case that the nineteenth-century presidency was significantly more developed and interventionist than previously thought. As he shows for a significant number of policy arenas, the actions of Adams, Grant, and Taft touched the lives of millions of Americans and laid the foundations of what would become the American century. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Stephen J. RockwellPublisher: University of Virginia Press Imprint: University of Virginia Press Dimensions: Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 23.50cm Weight: 0.272kg ISBN: 9780813950082ISBN 10: 0813950082 Pages: 352 Publication Date: 12 October 2023 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In stock  We have confirmation that this item is in stock with the supplier. It will be ordered in for you and dispatched immediately. Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Choices Within the State, 1776-1930: Process, Principled Innovation, and Synthesis 2. President John Quincy Adams and the American State in the 1820s 3. Presidential Decision Making and the Administrative State: Process and Procedure in the 1820s 4. President Grant and the American State After the Civil War 5. Presidential Decision Making and the Evolving State: Grant, Reconstruction, and Indian Affairs 6. President Taft and the 125-Year-Old American State 7. Taft the Builder Conclusion: The Non-Development of the American Presidency and the New Scholarship of the American StateReviews"Marshalling the work of presidential historians and scholars of American Political Development, along with rigorous study of three overlooked presidencies, Stephen Rockwell's The Presidency and the American State reveals a radically novel view of the American presidency. Through a careful and masterfully written account of the political lives and presidencies of John Quincy Adams, Ulysses S. Grant, and William Howard Taft, Rockwell demonstrates the power of the American state through presidential action far earlier than ""sleepy"" accounts of the administrative state have argued. The result is a dynamic, innovative, and truly satisfying revisitation of American history itself. --Saladin Ambar, Rutgers University, author of How Governors Built the Modern American Presidency Stephen Rockwell's The Presidency and the American State unites two threads of scholarship that have too long been separated: studies of the American presidency and the literature on state development. Rockwell convincingly demonstrates in this long overdue re-examination that we need to understand what presidents do through the lens of how they use state power, not by preemptively assuming theories in which modern presidents are more capable or have greater authority than those of the past. The book is a must-read for students of the Presidency and the American state more broadly. --William D. Adler, Northeastern Illinois University, author of Engineering Expansion: The U.S. Military and Economic Development, 1787-1860" Author InformationStephen J. Rockwell is Professor of Political Science at St. Joseph’s University, New York, and the author of Indian Affairs and the Administrative State in the Nineteenth Century. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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