Overview
Bringing historic documents and modern scholarship together, Understanding the Presidency provides students with a blend of classic and contemporary readings on the presidency to establish and expand their knowledge of the highest office in the land.
The sixth edition is updated with new readings covering the historic election of Barack Obama in 2008, the legacy of the George W. Bush administration, and the expansion of executive privilege. This collection of articles offers students a combination of contemporary scholarship-some penned exclusively for this edition-classic scholarly analyses, and historical perspectives, showing how the events of the past two centuries have led the executive branch to where it is today.
New Readings for the Sixth Edition
Richard W. Waterman, "The Administrative Presidency, Unilateral Power, and the Unitary Executive Theory"
John P. Burke, "Obama Becomes President: Policy Development and Leadership"
Peter Francia, Gregory Fortelny, and Clyde Wilcox, "The Obama Juggernaut: Presidential Fundraising in 2008"
James Ceasar and Daniel DiSalvo, "The Magnitude of the 2008 Democratic Victory: By the Numbers"
Roger H. Davidson, "Changing Tides: Public Opinion, Campaigns, and Governance, 2004-2009"
Mark Rozell and Mitchel Sollenberger, "Executive Privilege and the U.S. Attorneys Firings"
James P. Pfiffner, "Decision Making in the Bush White House"
Louis Fisher, "Presidential Power in National Security"