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... A G A I N S T the D A Y Christopher Newfield U.S. Political Romanticism and the Psychological Impacts of Obama’s Presidency ​Barack Obama’s popular support, political authority, and approval ratings have declined steadily since the middle of 2009 and are now barely average...

...Robert Stanley Rankin Copyright © 1934 by Duke University Press 1934 THE PRESIDENCY UNDER THE NEW DEAL ROBERT STANLEY RANKIN THE American people have proven to be steadfast in their faith in certain governmental principles, despite the cur­ rent belief that they are prone to make political...

...Fletcher M. Green Copyright © 1960 by Duke University Press 1960 Fletcher M. Green LINCOLN: "the taste [of the Presidency] is in my mouth a little Myth makers and hero worshipers would have the American people believe that Abraham Lincoln was a statesman of national repute...

...Matthew A. Crenson; Benjamin Ginsberg 2006 by Duke University Press 2006 Matthew A. Crenson and Benjamin Ginsberg Downsizing Democracy, Upsizing the Presidency White House–watchers mark September 11, 2001, as a point of transformation...

...Richard S. Kirkendall Harry Truman and the Crisis Presidency . By Cochran Bert . New York : Funk and Wagnalls , 1973 . Pp. viii , 432 . $10.00 . Copyright © 1975 by Duke University Press 1975 274 The South Atlantic Quarterly Delany amendment of 1958, by which manufacturers...

...Richard Polenberg Copyright © 1976 by Duke University Press 1976 Historians and the Liberal Presidency: Recent Appraisals of Roosevelt and Truman Richard Polenberg I The traditional view of domestic politics in the 1940s derived, in part, from the values historians themselves held. A decade...

...Harry R. Stevens The American Presidency in Action 1789: A Study in Constitutional History . By Hart James . New York : The Macmillan Company , 1948 . Pp. xv , 256 . $4.00 . Copyright © 1949 by Duke University Press 1949 498 The South Atlantic Quarterly The American...

...Steven Philip Kramer President and Parliament: A Short History of the French Presidency . By Derfler Leslie . Boca Raton : University of Florida Presses , 1983 . Pp. vii , 286 . $20.00 . Copyright © 1985 by Duke University Press 1985 Book Reviews 227 President and Parliament...

...Floyd M. Riddick Copyright © 1935 by Duke University Press 1935 THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES AND THE PRESIDENT FLOYD M. RIDDICK THE election of November 6, 1934, surprised all political observers. Never before in the history of American political parties has there been such a landslide...

...Paul H. Clyde A University Is a Place … a Spirit: Addresses and Articles by Frank LeRond McVey, President, University of Kentucky, 1917-1940 . Collected and arranged by McVey Frances Jewell . Lexington : University of Kentucky Press , 1944 . Pp. xix , 458 . $3.50 . Copyright ©...

...Floyd M. Riddick Copyright © 1945 by Duke University Press 1945 CONGRESS VERSUS THE PRESIDENT IN 1944 FLOYD M. RIDDICK THE ADMINISTRATION mapped out the legislative pro­ gram for the last session of the Seventy-eighth Congress, but the relations between the President and Congress were...

...David Y. Thomas Copyright © 1937 by Duke University Press 1937 The South Atlantic Quarterly Vol. XXXVI APRIL, 1937 Number 2 A PACIFIC POLICY FOR THE PACIFIC An Open Letter to President Roosevelt and Secretary Hull DAVID Y. THOMAS In time of peace prepare for warOld Proverb. In time of peace...

...Edwin Mims Copyright © 1905 by Duke University Press 1905 President Theodore Roosevelt By Edwin Mims, Professor of English Literature in Trinity College Ex-President Cleveland is reported to have said, when the democrats of the South turned against him in his second admin­ istration: When I...

...Robert S. Rankin Copyright © 1931 by Duke University Press 1931 PRESIDENT HOOVER AND THE SUPREME COURT ROBERT S. RANKIN RARELY, if ever, has a president entered upon his term of . office under more auspicious circumstances than our own President Hoover. When Mr. Coolidge turned over to him...

...Joseph C. Robert The Articulate Sisters: Passages From Journals And Letters Of The Daughters Of President Josiah Quincy Of Harvard University . Edited By Howe M. A. Dewolfe . Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press , 1946 . Pp. 249 . $3.50 . Copyright © 1947 by Duke...

...William S. Jenkins; Charles S. James, Jr. Copyright © 1948 by Duke University Press 1948 SHALL THE PEOPLE ELECT THE PRESIDENT? WILLIAM S. JENKINS and CHARLES S. JAMES, JR. IF RATIFIED, the proposed Twenty-second Amendment to the Federal Constitution will shackle the free choice by the people...

...J. Carlyle Sitterson 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue: Presidents and the People, 1929-1959 . By Johnson Walter . Boston : Little, Brown and Company , 1960 . Pp. viii , 390 . $6.00 . Copyright © 1961 by Duke University Press 1961 Book Reviews 107 his letters show his competence...

...C. W. Bolen Copyright © 1960 by Duke University Press 1960 C. W. Bolen WEST GERMANY ELECTS A PRESIDENT A more dramatic background was provided for West Germany s third presidential election, on July 1, 1959, than for the re-election of President Theodor Heuss five years earlier...

...Robert H. Woody Jefferson Davis, Confederate President . By Strode Hudson . New York : Harcourt, Brace and Company , 1959 . Pp. xvii , 556 . $6.75 . Copyright © 1960 by Duke University Press 1960 Book Reviews 455 Jefferson Davis, Confederate President. By Hudson Strode. New...

...Allan Peskin Copyright © 1977 by Duke University Press 1977 President Garfield and the Rating Game: An Evaluation of a Brief Administration Allan Peskin Among the games political historians delight to play, a perennial favorite is one which might be called Rate the President. From time...