{"product_id":"the-politics-presidents-make-9780674689374","title":"The Politics Presidents Make","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis wholly innovative study demonstrates that presidents are persistent agents of change, continually disrupting and transforming the political landscape. But each president also inherits a particular type of political context, a regime shaped by his predecessors that he either rejects or affirms.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA magisterial work, one of the most important studies of the presidency--indeed, of American politics--ever written...[Skowronek] comes very close to identifying the root problem affecting presidents...This is the all-important fact that the Constitution is unchanging and nondeveloped, while at all times intersecting with a social, economic, and political world that has undergone incessant development from the beginning. The whole work may be read as an extended, powerful, and penetrating meditation on some of the global consequences of this fact. -- Walter Dean Burnham * American Political Science Review *\u003cbr\u003eIn evaluating the field of political authority, Skowronek skillfully and systematically makes use of historical evidence. His approach can only be applauded as it brings a new and broader understanding of the historical evolution of the presidency. -- Birgitte Nielsen * American Studies in Scandinavia *\u003cbr\u003eSkowronek...brings illuminating insights to each president that he discusses...A major theoretical contribution to the study of the presidency. -- Richard M. Pious * Political Science Quarterly *\u003cbr\u003eThe book brings together current ideas of political scientists on the theory of presidential leadership, as well as incorporating the major historical works on the various presidents. It is history from the top rather than from the bottom, and while current historical trends are in the opposite direction, this sophisticated, scholarly analysis of presidential leadership illustrates that the history of political leadership is a subject on which innovative, imaginative approaches can still produce important new perspectives. -- Peter G. Boyle * The Americas *\u003cbr\u003eStephen Skowronek's much awaited book relating cycles of the US presidency to what the author has previously called \"political time\" is an instant conversation piece. \u003ci\u003eThe Politics Presidents Make\u003c\/i\u003e is a book that will engage scholars of political leadership and, particularly, those of the US presidency with its categories and its arguments. It is also easy to imagine that this book will evoke theological debates. -- Bert A. Rockman * Governance *\u003cbr\u003eA work of great insight...This is a book that kicks aside all the conventional ways of thinking about presidential leadership and erects a daring, powerful, analytic machine that compels attention. -- Hugh Heclo, George Mason University\u003cbr\u003eThis is a remarkable book...A skilled practitioner of the use of historical evidence systematically to understand not only the evolution, but also the current nature, of American political institutions, [Skowronek] examines the whole crowded history of the presidency to catalog and organize the two hundred year experience in a fresh and striking fashion. -- Joel Silbey * Review of Politics *\u003cbr\u003eIn this pathbreaking work, Stephen Skowronek escapes from \"secular time\" to view presidents in what he calls \"political time,\" meaning incumbents' relationships to their predecessors and to the status quo...This rich, insightful, resonant volume merits reading and rereading. It is destined to be a classic of presidential scholarship. -- Gil Troy * Journal of American History *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface, 1997    I. PLACES IN HISTORY   1. Rethinking Presidential History   2. Power and Authority   3. Structure and Action    II. RECURRENT AND EMERGENT PATTERNS   4. Jeffersonian Leadership: Patrician Prototypes   Part One: Thomas Jefferson's Reconstruction   Part Two: James Monroe's Articulation   Part Three: John Quincy Adams's Disjunction   5. Jacksonian Leadership: Classic Forms   Part One: Andrew Jackson's Reconstruction   Part Two: James Polk's Articulation   Part Three: Franklin Pierce's Disjunction   6. Republican Leadership: Stiffening Crosscurrents   Part One: Abraham Lincoln's Reconstruction   Part Two: Theodore Roosevelt's Articulation   Part Three: Herbert Hoover's Disjunction   7. Liberal Leadership: Fraying Boundaries   Part One: Franklin Roosevelt's Reconstruction   Part Two: Lyndon Johnson's Articulation   Part Three: Jimmy Carter's Disjunction      III. THE WANING OF POLITICAL TIME   8. Reagan, Bush, and Beyond    Afterward   Notes   Index","brand":"Harvard University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49403601256791,"sku":"9780674689374","price":23.36,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780674689374.jpg?v=1730483949","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-politics-presidents-make-9780674689374","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}