The Politics Presidents Make: Leadership from John Adams to Bill Clinton, Revised Edition

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Harvard University Press, Mar 25, 1997 - Biography & Autobiography - 546 pages
Stephen Skowronek’s wholly innovative study demonstrates that presidents are persistent agents of change, continually disrupting and transforming the political landscape. In an afterword to this new edition, the author examines “third way” leadership as it has been practiced by Bill Clinton and others. These leaders are neither great repudiators nor orthodox innovators. They challenge received political categories, mix seemingly antithetical doctrines, and often take their opponents’ issues as their own.

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Contents

Rethinking Presidential History
3
Power and Authority
17
Structure and Action
33
RECURRENT AND EMERGENT PATTERNS
59
Classic Forms
129
Stiffening Crosscurrents
197
Fraying Boundaries
287
THE WANING OF POLITICAL TIME
407
Afterword
447
Notes
467
Index
535
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About the author (1997)

Stephen Skowronek is the Pelatiah Perit Professor of Political and Social Science at Yale University.

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