TY - BOOK AU - Balogh,Brian AU - Bernstein,Bruce AU - Bernstein,Michael AU - Connolly,N.D.B. AU - Costigliola,Frank AU - Cramer Brownell,Kathryn AU - Davies,Gareth AU - Dochuk,Darren AU - Douglas,Susan AU - Galvin,Daniel AU - Hitchcock,William AU - Jo Martin,Cathie AU - O’Connor,Alice AU - Schulman,Bruce J. AU - Self,Robert O. AU - Skowronek,Stephen TI - Recapturing the Oval Office: New Historical Approaches to the American Presidency T2 - Miller Center of Public Affairs Books SN - 9781501700880 U1 - 352.23/509730904 23 PY - 2015///] CY - Ithaca, NY PB - Cornell University Press KW - Executive power KW - United States KW - History, 20th century KW - Presidents KW - Biography & Autobiography KW - Political Science & Political History KW - U.S. History KW - HISTORY / United States / General KW - bisacsh KW - Oval Office, American presidency, political history, political economy, presidential agency, structural forces, political science N1 - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Introduction: Confessions of a Presidential Assassin --; Part I. Balancing Agency and Structure --; 1. The Unsettled State of Presidential History --; 2. Personal Dynamics and Presidential Transitions: The Case of Roosevelt and Truman --; 3. Narrator-in-Chief: Presidents and the Politics of Economic Crisis from FDR to Obama --; Part II. The Social and Cultural Landscape Presidents Confront --; 4. The Reagan Devolution: Movement Conservatives and the Right’s Days of Rage, 1988–1994 --; 5. There Will Be Oil: Presidents, Wildcat Religion, and the Culture Wars of Pipeline Politics --; 6. Ike’s World: In Search of Ideology in the Eisenhower Presidency --; 7. Black Appointees, Political Legitimacy, and the American Presidency --; 8. Presidents and the Media --; 9. The Making of the Celebrity Presidency --; Part III. The Presidency and Political Structure --; 10. Stand by Me: Coalitions and Presidential Power from a Cross-National Perspective --; 11. Taking the Long View: Presidents in a System Stacked against Them --; 12. American Presidential Authority and Economic Expertise since World War II --; 13. The Changing Presidential Politics of Disaster: From Coolidge to Nixon --; Conclusion: The Perils and Prospects of Presidential History --; Notes --; List of Contributors --; Index; restricted access N2 - Several generations of historians figuratively abandoned the Oval Office as the bastion of out-of-fashion stories of great men. And now, decades later, the historical analysis of the American presidency remains on the outskirts of historical scholarship, even as policy and political history have rebounded within the academy. In Recapturing the Oval Office, leading historians and social scientists forge an agenda for returning the study of the presidency to the mainstream practice of history and they chart how the study of the presidency can be integrated into historical narratives that combine rich analyses of political, social, and cultural history. The authors demonstrate how "bringing the presidency back in" can deepen understanding of crucial questions regarding race relations, religion, and political economy. The contributors illuminate the conditions that have both empowered and limited past presidents, and thus show how social, cultural, and political contexts matter. By making the history of the presidency a serious part of the scholarly agenda in the future, historians have the opportunity to influence debates about the proper role of the president today UR - https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501700880 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781501700880 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781501700880/original ER -