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...Charles E. Jacob Copyright © 1963 by Duke University Press 1963 The Limits of Presidential Leadership Charles E. Jacob The convening of each new Congress invariably arouses specula­ tion about an abiding institutional relationship in American politics: the measure of presidential leadership...

...Robert F. Durden The Presidential Election of 1896 . By Jones Stanley L. . Madison : University of Wisconsin Press , 1964 . Pp. x , 436 . $7.50 . Copyright © 1965 by Duke University Press 1965 Book Reviews 273 Since most if not all of the abolitionists were utterly convinced...

...Peter Maslowski Lincoln and Black Freedom: A Study in Presidential Leadership . By Cox La Wanda . Columbia : University of South Carolina Press , 1981 . Pp. xiii , 254 . $17.95 . Copyright © 1982 by Duke University Press 1982 464 The South Atlantic Quarterly Lincoln and Black...

...Burl Noggle The Road to Normalcy: The Presidential Campaign and Election of 1920 . By Bagby Wesley M. . ( The Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science, Series LXXX, No. 1 .) Baltimore : The Johns Hopkins Press , 1962 . Pp. 206 . $5.50 . Copyright ©...

...Wil A. Linkugel; Robert W. Sellen Copyright © 1976 by Duke University Press 1976 The Presidential Candidate in Behalf of Himself Wil A. Linkugel and Robert W. Sellen I am an old campaigner and I love a good fight. 1 With these words Franklin D. Roosevelt plunged into the 1940 presidential...

...Richard H. Bradford Copyright © 1976 by Duke University Press 1976 John F. Kennedy and the 1960 Presidential Primary in West Virginia Richard H. Bradford In politics some events are important not because they are true but be­ cause people believe them to be true, and such was the case...

...Dana D. Nelson 2006 by Duke University Press 2006 This content is made freely available by the publisher. It may not be redistributed or altered. All rights reserved. Dana D. Nelson The President and Presidentialism AmBushed. The word is evident in its refer...

... of talking about race in the political and public sphere. Morrison's letter endorsing Barack Obama's presidential candidacy stands as a critical example of how such prose can effectively operate, and it models an increasingly ubiquitous form of communication between black intellectuals and politicians...

...Juliet Hooker After Ferguson in 2014, the visibility of protests against police violence resulted in much analysis of black protest, while the phenomenon of white rage was left largely unexamined until Donald Trump's surprising 2016 presidential victory. This essay reframes the problem...

...Joy James Examining the parameters of Africana thought with references to the 2008 presidential campaigns that led to the election of Barack Obama as the forty-fourth president of the United States, this essay explores the relationship of black elite leadership and black mass disenfranchisement...

... that they can be grasped reflectively. The intention, then, in this essay, written between November 9, 2016, and November 9, 2017, is to enunciate what authoritarianism has come to mean in the wake of the American presidential election of Donald Trump. The point made is that domination is self-destruction, now...

... hailed the decision: Long live the Liberal Trinity! 1 Almost eight decades later, John Spencer Bassett s alma mater now Duke University stands at another crossroad. Asked to con­ sider whether it wished to negotiate for the location at Duke of the presidential library of Richard M. Nixon a 1937...

... to succeed himself. This agitation seems to be gathering momentum. Among contemporaries, the first to argue publicly for the single six-year presidential term were Jack Valenti and Bill Moyers, who were members of Lyndon Johnson s administration and close to Johnson personally. It would seem...

... 11 may have represented a lethal landmark for international terrorism, but in fact it was just another milepost in the expansion of presidential power. Since the late 1960s, the misfortunes of presidents...

... as long as I think we have a chance to re­ structure our party. Similarly, Jesse Unruh, interviewed by NBC News, said he was in favor of doing away with presidential nominating conventions in favor of a national presidential primary. The Presidential Nominating Conven­ tions, 1968 (Washington...

..., the grudging decision by succeeding conventions of Democratic party politicians to use him as a way of winning elections, and his steadily widening popular pluralities in three straight presidential contests from 1884 to 1892. The explanation for these strange events requires reviving the memory...

... by a conservative, he was renominated in 1900 as a conservative to balance a slate led by a liberal. The Democrats changed the presidential nominee but kept Stevenson. The following sixteen letters bring to light certain characteristics of Stevenson as a political figure. Written over a period of thirty-two...

... presidents have come under savage partisan attack for many of their policies, and all have suffered abuse for their personal traits or Franklin Mitchell teaches history at the University of Southern California. Among his previous publications on Harry S Truman is An Act of Presidential Indiscretion, Harry S...

... into the mainstream of the nation s life. Tarheels, who have always been Southerners with a difference, left the mainstream when they re­ luctantly seceded to join the Confederacy in 1861. But since that time there was one period and especially one presidential-election year when North Carolina was, even if briefly...

... of the most important sections of the Radical program deals with the official view toward party government. Most Radicals are opposed to the current presidential system and would like to 7 For example, the last Radical platform, adopted in June, 1961, said: The Radical Party is defined by its democratic...