Agenda 2008 The American Presidency

VOLUME 29, NUMBER 1 - MARCH 1999

Becoming President

The Presidency, Social Movements and Contentious Change: Lessons from Women’s Suffrage and Labor Movements - Daniel J. Tichenor

Political Parties, Candidates, and Presidential Campaigns; 1952-1996 - Kelly D. Patterson, Amy A. Bice, and Elizabeth Pipkin

Comparing News and Editorial Coverage for the 1996 Presidential Nominating Campaign - Wayne P. Steger

Being President

Media Feeding Frenzies: Press Behavior During Two Clinton Scandals - Paul Maurer

Origin of the 1948 Turnip Day Session of Congress - William L. Batt, Jr. with David E. Balducchi

Inside Lincoln’s Clemency Decision Making - P.S. Ruckman, Jr. and David Kincaid

The Presidency as a Learning Organization - Daniel E. Ponder

Leaving the Presidency

Can the Twenty-Fifth Amendment Deal with a Disable President? Preventing Future White House Cover-Ups - Herbert L. Abrams

Seeing the Lyndon Johnson Presidency Through the March 31st, 1968, Withdrawal Speech - Patrick E. Jamieson

The Making of the Ex-Presidents, 1797-1993: Six Recurrent Models - Irina Belenky

Looking Back at Chief Executives: Retrospective Presidential Approval - James D. King

Features

Affirmative Action and the Presidential Role in Modern Civil Rights Reform: A Sample of Books of the 1990s - Samuel Leiter and William Leiter

The Paris Years of Thomas Jefferson by William Howard Adams - William T. Walker

Vindicating the Founders: Race, Sex, Class and Justice in the Origins of America by Thomas G. West - Robert Previdi

President Grant Reconsidered by Frank J. Scaturro - Charles H . Zwicker

Teddy Roosevelt at San Juan: The Making of a President by Peggy Samuels and Harold Samuels - Arthur K. Steinberg

Presidential Personality and Performance by Alexander L. George and Juliette L. George - Jean A. Garrison

FDR and the Modern Presidency: Leadership and Legacy by Mark J. Rozell and William D. Pederson, eds. - Charles H. Zwicker

The Dying President: Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1944-1945 by Robert H. Ferrell - James H. Cassedy

Mutual Contempt:Lyndon Johnson, Robert Kennedy, and the Feud that Defined a Decade by Jeff Shesol - Michael E. Meagher

Locked in the Cabinet by Robert B. Reich - Maureen A. Walsh

All the President’s Words: The Bully Pulpit and Creation of the Virtual Presidency by Carol Gelderman - Samuel B. Hoff

Star Spangled Men: America’s Ten Worst Presidents by Nathan Miller - Samuel B. Hoff

News Notes

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