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Presidency Readings List


Presidency
Patrick Fagan
Year 2000       

Clicking on the following titles will take you to the book review and publication information.
 

Justices, Presidents, and Senators: A History of the U.S. Supreme Court Appointments from Washington to Clinton
        by Henry J. Abraham

Bitter Harvest: FDR Presidential Power and the Growth of the Presidential Branch
        by Matthew J. Dickinson

Counting the Public In: Presidents, Public Opinion, and Foreign Policy
        by Douglas C. Foyle

The Politics of Presidential Selection
        by John S. Jackson III and William Crotty

The American Presidency Under Siege
        by Gary L. Rose

American Presidential Elections: Process, Policy, and Political Change
        by Harvey L. Schantz, ed.

At the President's Side: The Vice Presidency in the Twentieth Century
        by Timothy Walch, ed.

The Double-Edged Sword: How Character Makes and Ruins Presidents, from Washington to Clinton
        by Robert Shogan

No book reviews are available for the following older books

Nelson Polsby and Aaron Wildavsky.  Presidential Elections: Contemporary Strategies of American Electoral Politics (Free Press, 1988).

Fred Greenstein.  Leadership in the Modern Presidency (Harvard University Press, 1988).