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This bundle includes Michael Nelson′s The Presidency and the Political System 11e and Michael Nelson′s The Evolving Presidency 6e
About the author
Michael Nelson is Fulmer Professor of Political Science at Rhodes College and a senior fellow at the University of Virginia's Miller Center. A former editor of the
Washington Monthly, his most recent books include
Trump's First Year (2018);
The Elections of 2016 (2018);
The Evolving Presidency: Landmark Documents (2019)
; The American Presidency: Origins and Development (with Sidney M. Milkis, 2011); and
Governing at Home: The White House and Domestic Policymaking (with Russell B. Riley, 2011). Nelson has contributed to numerous journals, including the
Journal of Policy History, Journal of Politics, and
Political Science Quarterly. He also has written multiple articles on subjects as varied as baseball, Frank Sinatra, and C. S. Lewis. More than fifty of his articles have been anthologized in works of political science, history, and English composition. His 2014 book,
Resilient America: Electing Nixon, Channeling Dissent, and Dividing Government, won the American Political Science Association's Richard E. Neustadt Award for best book on the presidency published that year; and his 2006 book with John Lyman Mason,
How the South Joined the Gambling Nation, won the Southern Political Science Association's V.O. Key Award.
