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President and nation : the making of modern America

Title: President and nation : the making of modern America / John Kentleton.
Author: Kentleton, John, 1941-
Publication: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2002.

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Description

vii, 310 pages; 23 cm

Summary

Kentleton (history, U. of Liverpool) examines the role of the U.S. presidency in the country's political development from Theodore Roosevelt to Bill Clinton. Using Franklin D. Roosevelt as a prime example, Kentleton argues that a strong president is best for effective government. Four chapters discuss the development of modern America, the achievement of Liberalism, the attainment of world power, and the resurgence of conservatism. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.

Alternative Title

President & nation, the making of modern America

Subject

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (p. 286-294) and index.

Contents

The development of modern America : The rise of Theodore Roosevelt ; The nineteenth-century background ; Republicans and Democrats: Hamilton and Jefferson ; Theodore Roosevelt in the White House ; The progressive moment ; Woodrow Wilson and reform ; The United States goes to war ; Normalcy in the jazz age ; Herbert Hoover and the American system -- The achievement of liberalism : The emergence of Franklin Roosevelt ; The Democrats win power ; FDR enters the White House ; The New Deal ; The expansion of the presidency ; Liberals and conservatives ; Harry Truman continues the struggle ; Eisenhower Republicanism ; John Kennedy wins the presidency ; Lyndon Johnson and the Great Society -- The attainment of world power : The background to foreign policy ; Roosevelt and isolationism ; Roosevelt as wartime president ; Truman and the commitment to internationalism ; Eisenhower assumes control ; Kennedy the Cold War warrior ; The Vietnam War ; Nixon, Kissinger and the 1970s ; Ronald Reagan and anti-communism ; George Bush and a new world order ; Bill Clinton and the New Isolationism -- The resurgence of conservatism : The conservative conscience ; The turning conservative tide ; The election of 1968 ; Richard Nixon in the White House ; The imperial presidency ; Presidential and party politics after Watergate ; Reagan, Bush and conservatism ; Clinton and the 1990s.

ISBN

0333436962
9780333436967
0333436970
9780333436974

LCCN

2001060250

OCLC

ocm48711491
48711491
SCSB-1270298

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library