Author: B. Dan Wood
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107021278
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 207
Book Description
Evaluates the causes and consequences of presidential threats toward other nations, revealing the nature of modern presidential foreign policy representation.
Presidential Saber Rattling
Author: B. Dan Wood
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107021278
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 207
Book Description
Evaluates the causes and consequences of presidential threats toward other nations, revealing the nature of modern presidential foreign policy representation.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107021278
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 207
Book Description
Evaluates the causes and consequences of presidential threats toward other nations, revealing the nature of modern presidential foreign policy representation.
Presidential Saber Rattling
Author: B. Dan Wood
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139536699
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 207
Book Description
The founders of the American republic believed presidents should be wise and virtuous statesmen consistently advocating community interests when conducting American foreign policy. Yet the most common theoretical model used today for explaining the behavior of politicians is grounded in self-interest, rather than community interest. This book investigates whether past presidents acted as noble statesmen or were driven by such self-interested motivations as re-election, passion, partisanship, media frenzy and increasing domestic support. The book also examines the consequences for the nation of presidential behavior driven by self-interest. Between 1945 and 2008, presidents issued 4,269 threats to nineteen different countries. Professor B. Dan Wood evaluates the causes and consequences of these threats, revealing the nature of presidential foreign policy representation and its consistency with the founding fathers' intentions.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139536699
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 207
Book Description
The founders of the American republic believed presidents should be wise and virtuous statesmen consistently advocating community interests when conducting American foreign policy. Yet the most common theoretical model used today for explaining the behavior of politicians is grounded in self-interest, rather than community interest. This book investigates whether past presidents acted as noble statesmen or were driven by such self-interested motivations as re-election, passion, partisanship, media frenzy and increasing domestic support. The book also examines the consequences for the nation of presidential behavior driven by self-interest. Between 1945 and 2008, presidents issued 4,269 threats to nineteen different countries. Professor B. Dan Wood evaluates the causes and consequences of these threats, revealing the nature of presidential foreign policy representation and its consistency with the founding fathers' intentions.
The Presidency and Political Science: Paradigms of Presidential Power from the Founding to the Present: 2014
Author: Raymond Tatalovich
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317455177
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
This history of presidential studies surveys the views of leading thinkers and scholars about the constitutional powers of the highest office in the land from the founding to the present.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317455177
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
This history of presidential studies surveys the views of leading thinkers and scholars about the constitutional powers of the highest office in the land from the founding to the present.
The Presidency of James Madison
Author: Robert Allen Rutland
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Covers all major events of the Madison administration, including the War of 1812 and the push for national expansion.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Covers all major events of the Madison administration, including the War of 1812 and the push for national expansion.
The Presidency of Martin Van Buren
Author: Major L. Wilson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
Martin Van Buren, eighth president of the United States, has been judged harshly by some historians as a politician by trade and a spoilsman without principles, a "little magician" who was interested only in his own advancement. This volume provides a thorough recounting of the events and decisions of Van Buren's White House years (1837-1841), and adds to the positive reappraisal of Van Buren as an able statesman and effective chief executive. Wilson stresses that Van Buren faced the major problems of his presidency with courage and consistency, and that he brought repose to a nation wrenched both by sectional differences and by the violent fluctuations of economic expansion and contraction. Wilson discusses Van Buren's close relationship with Andrew Jackson and substantially qualifies the persistent interpretation of the Van Buren presidency as the "third term" of Jackson. Van Buren, a pragmatic Jeffersonian with a statesmanlike concern for order, reversed Jackson's priorities. Wilson describes how Van Buren resolved the crisis with Mexico and succeeded in keeping peace with Britain at a time when incidents arising out of rebellion in Canada and the disputed Maine boundary might have precipitated war. The most distinctive contribution of this volume is its in-depth analysis of the economic and political aspects of Van Buren's domestic policy, especialy the Independent Treasury, the issue that gave basic shape to his entire presidency. Jackson had divorced the Treasury from the national bank; Van Buren took one further step and rendered the operations of the Treasury independent of the state banks as well. By the end of his term, debate on the issues of currency and enterprise had brought the second-party system in the U.S. to maturity. In 1840 Van Buren's views in this area would cost him reelection. This study sheds lights on a turbulent period in American history and contributes to our understanding of Martin Van Buren's achievements. He kept the nation out of war, reduced sectional tensions, and established the basis for a fiscal policy which he believed would bring greater stability to economic development.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
Martin Van Buren, eighth president of the United States, has been judged harshly by some historians as a politician by trade and a spoilsman without principles, a "little magician" who was interested only in his own advancement. This volume provides a thorough recounting of the events and decisions of Van Buren's White House years (1837-1841), and adds to the positive reappraisal of Van Buren as an able statesman and effective chief executive. Wilson stresses that Van Buren faced the major problems of his presidency with courage and consistency, and that he brought repose to a nation wrenched both by sectional differences and by the violent fluctuations of economic expansion and contraction. Wilson discusses Van Buren's close relationship with Andrew Jackson and substantially qualifies the persistent interpretation of the Van Buren presidency as the "third term" of Jackson. Van Buren, a pragmatic Jeffersonian with a statesmanlike concern for order, reversed Jackson's priorities. Wilson describes how Van Buren resolved the crisis with Mexico and succeeded in keeping peace with Britain at a time when incidents arising out of rebellion in Canada and the disputed Maine boundary might have precipitated war. The most distinctive contribution of this volume is its in-depth analysis of the economic and political aspects of Van Buren's domestic policy, especialy the Independent Treasury, the issue that gave basic shape to his entire presidency. Jackson had divorced the Treasury from the national bank; Van Buren took one further step and rendered the operations of the Treasury independent of the state banks as well. By the end of his term, debate on the issues of currency and enterprise had brought the second-party system in the U.S. to maturity. In 1840 Van Buren's views in this area would cost him reelection. This study sheds lights on a turbulent period in American history and contributes to our understanding of Martin Van Buren's achievements. He kept the nation out of war, reduced sectional tensions, and established the basis for a fiscal policy which he believed would bring greater stability to economic development.
The Presidency Vs. Hoover
Author: Samuel Crowther
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Presidents
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Presidents
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
The Presidency of Abraham Lincoln
Author: Phillip Shaw Paludan
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
In this study, Paludan offers us Lincoln in the round - a complex, even contradictory personality who found greatness without seeking it and who felt deeply troubled about what he perceived as his failings as a President and person.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
In this study, Paludan offers us Lincoln in the round - a complex, even contradictory personality who found greatness without seeking it and who felt deeply troubled about what he perceived as his failings as a President and person.
The American Review of Reviews
American Monthly Review of Reviews
Author: Albert Shaw
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Periodicals, English
Languages : en
Pages : 1270
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Periodicals, English
Languages : en
Pages : 1270
Book Description