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1 online resource (256 pages) |
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Routledge Research in American Politics and Governance ; 15 |
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Routledge research in American politics and governance ; 15.
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Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Contributor Biographies; Preface; Introduction: Rating America's Presidents: A UK Perspective; 1 The Meanings of Going First: George Washington and the Presidency; 2 John Quincy Adams: An Exceptionally Average President?; 3 A Poetic Presidency: Abraham Lincoln, Walt Whitman, and the Second American Revolution; 4 Andrew Johnson: The Wrong Man in the Wrong Place; 5 A (Near) Great President: Theodore Roosevelt as the First Modern President; 6 Reevaluating the Presidency of Warren G. Harding; 7 Simply the Best: FDR as America's Number One President |
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8 King's Last President: A Canadian Prime Minister's Perspective on Harry S. Truman's First Term9 LBJ: If Not for Vietnam; 10 The Reagan Presidency in Retrospect: An Assessment of Reagan's Legacy; 11 George H.W. Bush and Presidential Peacemaking in Ranking American Presidents; 12 President Bill Clinton: Ranking, Reputation, and Legacy; 13 An Obama Doctrine?; Index; Acknowledgements |
| Summary |
In 2011 Barack Obama invited ten distinguished biographers to the White House to ask them one question: which past American president should I emulate? This was not the first time Obama asked scholars this, but the answer he received would differ as presidential legacies waxed and waned. In 2008 Obama chose Lincoln; in 2009, Reagan; and in 2010, Theodore Roosevelt. Perspectives on Presidential Leadership is an examination of presidential legacy, and in particular an analysis of the first ever UK ranking of American presidents which took place in 2011. In thirteen chapters, thi |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Michael Patrick Cullinane is senior lecturer of U.S. history at Northumbria University, UK and a specialist in presidential statecraft, presidential legacies, and transatlantic relations. He is the author of Liberty and American Anti-Imperialism, 1898-1909 (2012) which examines the anti-imperialist movement during the "great debate" in U.S. foreign policy over imperial expansion. Cullinane has also published several articles and chapters on the politics and legacy of Theodore Roosevelt. He is currently working on a lengthier monograph investigating Roosevelt's posthumous image over a century of memorialization. Clare Frances Elliott is lecturer in nineteenth-century literature at Northumbria University, UK. Her research interests are in transatlantic literary studies and she is currently editing The Companion to Atlantic Literary Studies for Edinburgh University Press with Leslie Eckel and Andrew Taylor and completing a monograph, Atlantic Blake: Transnational Romanticism. Elliott has edited, with Andrew Hook, Francis Jeffrey's American Journal (Glasgow: Humming Earth Press, 2011) and is the author of several articles on Francis Jeffrey, William Blake, Ralph Waldo Emerson and Walt Whitman. She serves on the executive committee for the Transatlantic Studies Association |
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Presidents -- United States -- History -- Case studies
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Presidents -- Rating of -- United States
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Political leadership -- United States -- Case studies
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Affairs & Administration.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE / General
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POLITICAL SCIENCE / Government / Executive Branch
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HISTORY / United States / General
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Political leadership
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Presidents
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Presidents -- Rating of
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United States
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Case studies
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History
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Cullinane, Michael Patrick, 1979-
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Elliott, Clare (Clare Frances)
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| ISBN |
9781135079109 |
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1135079102 |
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9781135079031 |
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113507903X |
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1306460212 |
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9781306460217 |
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9780203796504 |
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0203796500 |
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9781135079178 |
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113507917X |
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