Preface
Chapter 1 The Constitutional Convention
| The Constitutional Convention |
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Chapter 2 Creating the Presidency
| The Making of the Presidency: An Overview |
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| Institutional Separation from Congress |
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| Ratifying the Constitution |
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Chapter 3 Bringing the Constitutional Presidency to Life: George Washington and John Adams
| The Election of George Washington |
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| Making the Presidency Safe for Democracy |
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| Forming the Executive and Judicial Branches |
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| Presidential “Supremacy” and the Conduct of the Executive Branch |
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| Presidential Nonpartisanship and the Beginning of Party Conflict |
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| Washington’s Retirement and the Jay Treaty: The Constitutional Crisis of 1796 |
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| The Embattled Presidency of John Adams |
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| The Alien and Sedition Acts |
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Chapter 4 The Triumph of Jeffersonianism
| Jefferson’s War with the Judiciary |
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| The Democratic-Republican Program and the Adjustment to Power |
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| The Limits of “Popular” Leadership |
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| The Presidency of James Madison and the Rise of the House of Representatives |
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| The Presidency of James Monroe |
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Chapter 5 The Age of Jackson
| The Rise of the Party Convention |
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| Jackson’s Struggle with Congress |
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| The Aftermath of the Bank Veto |
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| The Decline of the Cabinet |
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| The Limits of the Jacksonian Presidency |
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| Martin Van Buren and the Panic of 1837 |
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| The Jacksonian Presidency Sustained |
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| John Tyler and the Problem of Presidential Succession |
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| The Presidency of James K. Polk |
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| The Slavery Controversy and the Twilight of the Jacksonian Presidency |
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Chapter 6 The Presidency of Abraham Lincoln
| Lincoln and the Slavery Controversy |
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| Lincoln’s Wartime Measures |
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| The Emancipation Proclamation |
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Chapter 7 The Reaction against Presidential Power: Andrew Johnson to William McKinley
| Reconstruction and the Assault on Executive Authority |
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| The Impeachment of Andrew Johnson |
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| Ulysses S. Grant and the Abdication of Executive Power |
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| The Fight to Restore Presidential Power |
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| Congressional Government and the Prelude to a More Active Presidency |
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Chapter 8 Progressive Politics and Executive Power: The Presidencies of Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and Woodrow Wilson
| Theodore Roosevelt and the Expansion of Executive Power |
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| The Troubled Presidency of William Howard Taft |
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| Progressive Politics and the Elections of 1912 |
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| Woodrow Wilson’s Theory of Executive Leadership |
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| The Art of Popular Leadership |
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| Wilson’s Relations with Congress |
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Chapter 9 The Triumph of Conservative Republicanism
| The “Silent” Politics of Calvin Coolidge |
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| Herbert C. Hoover and the Great Depression |
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Chapter 10 The Consolidation of the Modern Presidency: Franklin D. Roosevelt to Dwight D. Eisenhower
| Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Modern Presidency |
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| The Modern Presidency Sustained: Harry S. Truman and Dwight D. Eisenhower |
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Chapter 11 Personalizing the Presidency: John F. Kennedy to Jimmy Carter
| John F. Kennedy and the Rise of the “Personal Presidency” |
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| Lyndon B. Johnson and Presidential Government |
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| The Twenty-Fifth Amendment |
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| The Presidency of Richard Nixon |
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| Gerald R. Ford and the Post-Watergate Era |
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Chapter 12 A Restoration of Presidential Power? Ronald Reagan and George Bush
Chapter 13 Bill Clinton and the Modern Presidency
| The First Year of the Clinton Presidency |
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| The 1994 Elections and the Restoration of Divided Government |
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| Balanced Budgets, Impeachment Politics, and the Limits of the Third Way |
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Chapter 14 George W. Bush and Unilateral Presidential Power
| The Early Months of the Bush Presidency |
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| September 11 and the War on Terrorism |
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| Bush and the Republican Party |
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| Partisanship and Unilateralism at the Twilight of the Bush Presidency |
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Chapter 15 Barack Obama and Presidential Leadership in Polarized Times
| The New Foundation and Partisan Rancor |
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| We Can’t Wait: Obama and the Administrative Presidency |
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| Obama’s Reelection and the Perils of Partisanship |
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| Obama, Partisanship, and the War on Terrorism |
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| Barack Obama’s Fragile Legacy |
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Chapter 16 The Trump Presidency and Resilience of Constitutional Government
| Forming the Administration |
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| Trump’s Administrative Presidency |
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| The Rhetorical Presidency |
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Chapter 17 The Vice Presidency
| The Vice Presidency in the Nineteenth Century |
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| Theodore Roosevelt to Harry S. Truman |
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| The Modern Vice Presidency |
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Appendix
| Constitution of the United States |
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| U.S. Presidents and Vice Presidents |
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| Summary of Presidential Elections, 1789–2016 |
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Index
