The Presidency and the American State : Leadership and Decision Making in the Adams, Grant, and Taft Administrations (Miller Center Studies on the Presidency)

Rockwell, Stephen J.

University of Virginia Press（2023/10発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 352 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780813950082
• DDC分類 352.230973

Full Description

Although many associate Franklin D. Roosevelt with the inauguration of the robust, dominant American presidency, the roots of his executive leadership style go much deeper. 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 makes a compelling case that the nineteenth-century presidency was significantly more developed and interventionist than previously thought. As he shows for a significant number of policy arenas, the actions of Adams, Grant, and Taft touched the lives of millions of Americans and laid the foundations of what would become the American century.

Contents

Introduction
1. Choices Within the State, 1776-1930: Process, Principled Innovation, and Synthesis
2. President John Quincy Adams and the American State in the 1820s
3. Presidential Decision Making and the Administrative State: Process and Procedure in the 1820s
4. President Grant and the American State After the Civil War
5. Presidential Decision Making and the Evolving State: Grant, Reconstruction, and Indian Affairs
6. President Taft and the 125-Year-Old American State
7. Taft the Builder
Conclusion: The Non-Development of the American Presidency and the New Scholarship of the American State