Following the election of Donald Trump, the office of the U.S. president has come under scrutiny like never before. Featuring penetrating insights from high-profile presidential scholars, The Presidency provides the deep historical and constitutional context needed to put the Trump era into its proper perspective.Identifying key points at which the constitutional presidency could have evolved in different ways from the nation’s founding days to the present, these scholars examine presidential decisions that determined the direction of the nation and the world.
Contributors Bradley R. De Wees, U.S. Air Force * Richard J. Ellis, Willamette University * Stefanie Georgakis Abbott, University of Virginia * Joel K. Goldstein, Saint Louis University * Jennifer Lawless, University of Virginia * Sidney M. Milkis, University of Virginia * Sairkrishna Bangalore Prakash, University of Virginia * Russell L. Riley, University of Virginia * Andrew Rudalevige, Bowdoin College * Sean Theriault, University of Texas at Austin
Table of Content
Acknowledgments
1. Presidential Crossroads
2. The Living Presidency: Always at a Crossroads
3. Crossroads of the (c)onstitutional Presidency: How Ten Extraconstitutional Landmarks Shaped the Office
4. On Being Unpresidential: The Trumpian Moment in Historical Perspective
5. The People, the President, and the Congress at a Crossroads: Can We Turn Back from Gridlock?
6. The Crossroads of Impeachment: The Threat of Removal and the Separation of Powers
7. American Regicide: Postwar Presidents and the Bitter Politics of Returning to Normalcy
8. The Personal Presidency at a Constitutional Crossroads
9. Civil-Military Relations: Crossroads and Cross-Currents
10. Crossroads in Vice-Presidential History
11. Presidents, Refoundings, and the ‘Living Constitution’
Notes on Contributors
Index
About the author
Michael Nelson is Fulmer Professor of Political Science at Rhodes College, a Senior Fellow at the University of Virginia’s Miller Center, and author of Clinton’s Elections: 1992, 1996, and the Borth of a New Era of Governance. Barbara A. Perry is Gerald L. Baliles Professor and Director of Presidential Studies at the University of Virginia’s Miller Center and author of Edward Kennedy: An Oral History.
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