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Introduction: Presidential Studies and Presidential Research ix
Robert P. Watson
HISTORICAL REASSESSMENTS OF PRESIDENTS 1
Chapter 1 George Washington's Character and Slavery 3
James P. Pfiffner
Chapter 2 Governing the Devil in Hell: "Bleeding
Kansas" and the Destruction of the Franklin
Pierce Presidency (1854-1856) 13
Michael J. C. Taylor
Chapter 3 The Domestic Lincoln: White House Lobbying
of the Civil War Congresses 23
Jon Schaff
Chapter 4 The "Smallest Mistake": Explaining the Failures
of the Hayes and Harrison Presidencies 37
Douglas Steven Gallagher
THE CHALLENGE OF GOVERNING 55
Chapter 5 Separating Rhetoric from Policy: Speechwriting
under Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter 57
Karen M. Hult and Charles E. Walcott
Chapter 6 The Rhetoric of Presidential Veto Messages 73
Christopher J. Deering, Lee Sigelman and Jennifer L. Saunders
Chapter 7 A Revisionist View of George Bush and Congress, 1989:
Presidential Support, 'Veto Strength,' and Legislative Strategy 93
Richard S. Conley
Chapter 8 The Politics of Presidential Appointments: A Thorny Business 109
Colton C. Campbell
RELATIONS WITH CONGRESS AND PUBLIC POLICY 125
Chapter 9 Regime Formation and Maturation in the White House:
The Rise of Internationalism during the
Administration of Theodore Roosevelt 127
Tom Lansford
Chapter 10 The Collapse of an Inherited Agenda:
George Bush and the Reagan Foreign Policy Legacy 147
Victoria A. Farrar-Myers
Chapter 11 Debunking the Myth: Carter, Congress,
and the Politics of Airline Deregulation 163
David B. Cohen and Chris J. Dolan
Chapter 12 Clinton's Greatest Legislative Achievement?
The Success of the 1993 Budget Reconciliation Bill 189
Patrick Fisher
RESEARCHING AND EVALUATING THE PRESIDENCY 205
Chapter 13 Ranking and Evaluating Presidents:
The Case of Theodore Roosevelt 207
Max J. Skidmore
Chapter 14 The Emerging Scholarly Consensus on Presidential
Leadership: A New Realism, an Old Idealism 217
Raymond Tatalovich and Thomas S. Engeman
Chapter 15 Research on the Presidency: The Usual
Problem of Biographical Accounts 233
William Cunion
Chapter 16 Presidents after the White House: A Preliminary Study 249
MaxJ. Skidmore
Appendix A. The Presidents 263
Appendix B. Article II of the Constitution 265
Appendix C. Constitutional Amendments Pertaining to the Presidency 269
Appendix D. Law of Presidential Succession 273
Appendix E. Sources for Studying the Presidency 275