The Presidency And The American State: Leadership And Decision Making In The Adams, Grant, And Taft Administrations (Miller Center Studies On The Presidency)

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--

• | Author: Stephen J. Rockwell
• | Publisher: University Of Virginia Press
• | Publication Date: Oct 12, 2023
• | Number of Pages: 352 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 0813950074
• | ISBN-13: 9780813950075