Download or read book The Evolving Presidency written by Michael C. Nelson and published by CQ Press. This book was released on 2018-01-12 with total page 495 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Evolving Presidency selects primary sources useful for tracing the development of the presidency and places them in a single reader, making it a vital resource for students and instructors." —Robert Robinson, California State University Fullerton Remind your students that primary sources are an essential part of today′s information-rich age. In Michael Nelson’s Sixth Edition of The Evolving Presidency, 60 documents help to anchor the ever-changing presidency in historical context. Students encounter a range of documents—from speeches and debates to letters, landmark Supreme Court decisions, and even tweets—that demonstrate how the presidency is shaped through both word and deed. Every selection has its own headnote that is carefully crafted to convey the significance of the document during its own time and its lasting effects on the office of the presidency. New to the Sixth Edition: This edition contains sixty documents, more than in any previous edition, including additions that reflect historically significant recent events, notably Donald Trump’s inaugural address and his employment of Twitter as a form of presidential communication. Two brand-new additions from the early days of Donald Trump’s presidency: The text of his pessimistic and populist inauguration speech, in which he promised a focus on "America first"; A compilation of 68 tweets from one week in July 2017, providing students with a context to analyze his unprecedented use of the social network to directly engage with citizens, colleagues in the government, and even other world leaders.
Download or read book The Evolving Presidency written by Michael Nelson and published by CQ Press. This book was released on 2015-05-27 with total page 633 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the Fifth Edition of The Evolving Presidency, more than 50 documents—speeches, debates, letters and Supreme Court decisions—show readers the ways that presidents have shaped U.S. history through both word and deed. Editor Michael Nelson carefully crafts a headnote for each selection to place it in historical context and convey the document’s significance during its own time as well as its lasting effects on the office of the presidency. This edition offers eight all-new selections including James Madison’s Notes of the Federal Convention, Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Executive Order on Japanese-American Internment, and Barack Obama’s 2015 State of the Union Address.
Download or read book The Evolving Presidency Landmark Documents 1787 2008 3rd Edition written by Michael Nelson and published by CQ Press. This book was released on 2007-12-28 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fascinating collection of 50 primary source documents offers a compact yet broad-based look at the development of the executive office. Judicious editing and contextual headnotes give students a look at the personalities and ideas that have shaped the institution, as well as insight into significant cases and events that have played pivotal roles in American political history. Based on extensive feedback from users, the third edition includes new selections that feature both historical and recent pieces&BAD:mdash;from FDR&BAD:rsquo;s court-packing speech to Hamdan v. Rumsfeld case&BAD:mdash;dramatically showing students how presidents chart U.S. history.
Download or read book The Evolving Presidency written by Michael Nelson and published by CQ Press. This book was released on 2015-01-15 with total page 411 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the Fifth Edition of The Evolving Presidency, more than 50 documents—speeches, debates, letters and Supreme Court decisions—show readers the ways that presidents have shaped U.S. history through both word and deed. Editor Michael Nelson carefully crafts a headnote for each selection to place it in historical context and convey the document’s significance during its own time as well as its lasting effects on the office of the presidency. This edition offers eight all-new selections including James Madison’s Notes of the Federal Convention, Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Executive Order on Japanese-American Internment, and Barack Obama’s 2015 State of the Union Address.
Download or read book The Evolving Presidency written by Michael Nelson and published by CQ-Roll Call Group Books. This book was released on 1999 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Evolving Presidency is not a collection of essays, but a treasury of the most important documents about the highest office in the land. It is also an affordable alternative to the usual high-priced collections of primary documents. Arranged in chronological order, these 43 documents tell a rich and fascinating story of how much about the presidency has changed across more than two centuries -- and about how much has remained the same since the office was first established. For students and scholars, The Evolving Presidency is the perfect volume for research and directed reading. For interested citizens everywhere, the book is a fascinating collection of priceless documents that reveal the origins and development of our highest office. Headnotes explain the history and significance of each document. And the convenient subject guide sorts documents by topic and helps readers trace their specific issues and topics of interest.
Download or read book The Evolving Presidency written by Michael Nelson and published by CQ Press. This book was released on 2011-03-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Remind your students that primary sources are an essential part of today's information rich age. With Michael Nelson’s fourth edition of The Evolving Presidency, more than 50 documents help to anchor the ever-changing presidency in historical context. Seeing how presidents shape U.S. history through both word and deed, students encounter a range of documents- from speeches and debates to letters and landmark Supreme Court decisions. Every selection has its own headnote that is carefully crafted to convey the significance of the document during its own time and its lasting effects on the office of the presidency. Documents new to this edition: • Memo from Walter F. Mondale to Jimmy Carter Proposing the Modern Vice Presidency (1976) • Bush v. Gore (2000) • Barack Obama’s Campaign Speech on Race in America (2008) • Barack Obama’s Health Care Address (2009)
Download or read book The Real Psychology of the Trump Presidency written by Stanley Renshon and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-09-14 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The United States has never had a president quite like Donald J. Trump. He violated every rule of conventional presidential campaigns to win a race that almost no one, including at times he himself, thought he would win. In so doing, Trump set off cataclysmic shock waves across the country and world that have not subsided and are unlikely to as long as he remains in office. Critics of Trump abound, as do anonymously sourced speculations about his motives, yet the real man behind this unprecedented presidency remains largely unknown. In this innovative analysis, American presidency scholar and trained psychoanalyst Stanley Renshon reaches beyond partisan narrative to offer a serious and substantive examination of Trump’s real psychology and controversial presidency. He analyzes Trump as a preemptive president trying to become transformative by initiating a Politics of American Restoration. Rigorously grounded in both political science and psychology scholarship, The Real Psychology of the Trump Presidency offers a unique and thoughtful perspective on our controversial 45th president.
Download or read book The Presidency and the Political System written by Michael Nelson and published by CQ Press. This book was released on 2018-03-08 with total page 654 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by top-notch presidency scholars and carefully edited into a text-reader format, The Presidency and the Political System, Eleventh Edition showcases a collection of original essays focused on a range of topics, institutions, and issues relevant to understanding the American presidency. Author Michael Nelson rigorously edits each contribution to present students with a set of analytical yet accessible chapters and contextual headnotes introducing each essay. You will read about different approaches to studying the presidency, the elements of presidential power, presidential selection, presidents and politics, and presidents and government. New to the Eleventh Edition A new chapter focused on the Trump administration (Chapter 10) discusses major shifts represented by the new administration, especially in regards to the president’s relationship with the media. New coverage of Obama's second term enables you to compare and contrast Obama’s two presidential terms as well as better understand how the similarities and differences of Obama’s approach compared to his predecessors. Revised, time-tested essays reflect current scholarship that explores the themes of modern presidential power and effectiveness.
Download or read book Guide to the Presidency SET written by Michael Nelson and published by CQ Press. This book was released on 2007-07-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Guide to the Presidency is the leading reference source on the persons who have occupied the White House and on the institution of the presidency itself. Readers turn to this guide for its vast array of factual information about the institution and the presidents, as well as for its analytical chapters that explain the structure and operations of the office and the president's relationship to co-equal branches of government, Congress and the Supreme Court. This new edition is updated to include: A new chapter on presidential power Coverage of the expansion of presidential power under President George W. Bush
Download or read book American Presidency and Evolving Presidency Pkg written by Milkis and published by . This book was released on 2003-02 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The American Presidency written by Sidney M. Milkis and published by CQ Press. This book was released on 2015-03-03 with total page 742 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The American Presidency examines the constitutional foundation of the executive office and the social, economic, political, and international forces that have reshaped it along with the influence individual presidents have had. Authors Sidney Milkis and Michael Nelson look at each presidency broadly, focusing on how individual presidents have sought to navigate the complex and ever-changing terrain of the executive office and revealing the major developments that launched a modern presidency at the dawn of the twentieth century. By connecting presidential conduct to the defining eras of American history and the larger context of politics and government in the United States, this award-winning book offers perspective and insight on the limitations and possibilities of presidential power. In this Seventh Edition, marking the 25th anniversary of The American Presidency’s publication, the authors add new scholarship to every chapter, reexamine the end of George W. Bush’s tenure, assess President Obama’s first term in office, and explore Obama’s second term.
Download or read book The American Presidency written by Sidney M. Milkis and published by CQ Press. This book was released on 2021-12-16 with total page 633 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The American Presidency examines the constitutional foundation of the executive office and the social, economic, political, and international forces that have reshaped it along with the influence individual presidents have had. Authors Sidney Milkis and Michael Nelson look at each presidency broadly, focusing on how individual presidents have sought to navigate the complex and ever-changing terrain of the executive office and revealing the major developments that launched a modern presidency at the dawn of the twentieth century. By connecting presidential conduct to the defining eras of American history and the larger context of politics and government in the United States, this award-winning book offers perspective and insight on the limitations and possibilities of presidential power.
Download or read book The Trump Presidency written by Mara Oliva and published by Palgrave MacMillan. This book was released on 2019-09-28 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited collection delves into the key aspects of the Trump campaign promises around immigration, trade, social and foreign policy, and unpicks how the first year of the presidency has played out in delivering them. It charts his first year from both historical and contemporary political standpoints, and in the context of comparative pieces stacking Trump's performance against Gold-standard presidents such as Reagan, Kennedy and the last 'outsider', Eisenhower. Focusing in on a number of key elements of the presidency in depth, it offers a unique perspective on a presidency like no other, drawing on the overriding themes of populism, nativist nationalism and the battle for disengagement from the neoliberal power generation.
Download or read book The Presidency and the Political System written by Michael Nelson and published by CQ Press. This book was released on 2009-09-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the first edition published in 1984, The Presidency and the Political System has become the most widely assigned book in courses on the presidency.With its incisive and insightful original essays showcasing top-notch scholarship, it’s no surprise that this volume has proven to be both enduring and indispensable. Joining revised, yet time-tested, essays that continue to explore the themes of presidential power and effectiveness, contributions by new authors Lyn Ragsdale, George C. Edwards III, Marc Landy, Joseph Pika, and Andrew Rudalevige complete the updating to reflect GeorgeW. Bush’s second term, the 2008 elections, and Barack Obama’s transition and early months as president.
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Download or read book Secret and Sanctioned written by Stephen F. Knott and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1996 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This eye-opening account reveals that covert intelligence operations in the U.S. date much farther back than most people realize--back to the Founding Fathers. Detailing clandestine, unscrupulous operations that took place under such presidents as Washington, Jefferson, Polk, and Lincoln, Knott reveals that presidents have rarely consulted Congress before engaging in such operations.
