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Title: The Power of the American Presidency, 1789-2000: 1789-2000 by Michael A. Genovese ISBN: 0-19-512545-2 Publisher: Oxford Press Pub. Date: September, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 2
Summary: This is OK
Comment: This book gives very brief descriptions of most of the presidents. If you do not know much about the history of the presidency, this book might be useful. However, I would recomend a much more detailed book.
Genovese uses his own ranking system to put the presidents in order. He seems to base most of the ranking on whether or not the president improved the power that the office had not on actual policies. Therefore "administrative" presidents do not do well in his system no matter what policies they implemented.
The tables that Genovese uses contradict each other. Presidents are given different rank numbers in different tables. He also uses the same quotes multiple times for some of the presidents.
This book is ok for a quick overview of the presidency, but does not provide for many detailed profiles outside of a few presidents.
Rating: 5
Summary: Growth of Power
Comment: I like this book! "The Power of the American Presidency" is an informative and enjoyable book to read. Genovese gives the reader a broad view of the roots of the American presidency and its powers. Readers will see how some presidents excelled while others lagged behind, how some presidents developed and strengthened presidential powers to lead the country forward while others weakened them and failed to lead.
Genovese describes how a president was accused of breaking the law, or at least, steered around the U.S. Constitution, in order to save a nation, how some loved the position of president while others couldn't wait for their term to end. Genovese shows us the presidents that made the top of the list of great presidents, those who landed on the bottom, and how others took the deep plunge into presidential obscurity. The reader will also discover which president served the longest term, which served the shortest, and which president disliked politics. But most importantly, Genovese explains the development of the American presidency and the expansion of its power.
"The Power of the American Presidency" quenches the reader's thirst for knowledge and serves as a good jumping point for further study on the American presidency and presidential powers. Genovese's writing is smart, crisp, and at times witty but always clear. I like that this book can be read from beginning to end, as I did, or it can be used as a reference tool, as I frequently do. I wholeheartedly recommend this book.
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Title: The Dance of Legislation by Eric Redman, Richard E. Neustadt ISBN: 0295980230 Publisher: University of Washington Press Pub. Date: 15 April, 2001 List Price(USD): $17.50 |
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Title: The Supreme Court by Lawrence Baum ISBN: 1568025238 Publisher: CQ Press Pub. Date: October, 2000 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: Islam Without Illusions: Its Past, Its Present, and Its Challenge for the Future (CONTEMPORARY ISSUES IN THE MIDDLE EAST) by Edward Hotaling, Ed Hotaling ISBN: 0815607660 Publisher: Syracuse Univ Pr (Trade) Pub. Date: September, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Power and the Presidency by Robert A. Wilson, Michael R. Beschloss, Edmund Morris, Stanley Marcus, Benjamin C. Bradlee, Robert A. Caro, Doris Kearns Goodwin, David Maraniss, David McCullough ISBN: 1891620436 Publisher: PublicAffairs Pub. Date: December, 1999 List Price(USD): $20.00 |
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Title: Financial Times World Desk Reference 2003 by Andrew Heritage, Inc Dorling Kindersley Publishing, DK Publishing ISBN: 0789493748 Publisher: DK Publishing Pub. Date: February, 2003 List Price(USD): $30.00 |
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