FDR and the Modern Presidency - Leadership and Legacy

In this volume Rozell and Peterson bring together a collection of new essays exploring the unparalleled impact of Franklin D. Roosevelt on the modern presidency. Of all the modern presidents, FDR looms largest. Indeed, most scholars date the origins of the modern presidency to FDR, and many assert that no one since has achieved his level of greatness in office.

The essays are organized into two broad sections: The first examines FDR's impact on the creation and development of the administrative presidency and the legacy of the New Deal; the second looks at FDR's legacy to presidential leadership and the exercise of presidential powers. An important volume for scholars and other researchers of the FDR era and the modern American presidency.

List of contents

FDR's Leadership and Legacy by Mark J. Rozell and William D. Pederson
The Administrative Presidency and the New Deal
Uprooting the Presidential Branch? The Lessons of FDR by Matthew J. Dickinson
Administering Democracy: Personnel Management in the Federal Civil Service, 1933-1953 by Margaret C. Rung
When Henry Met Franklin by Martin Halpern
The Utility of Newness: State Managers and the Creation of Civil Works by Michael Lewis
"Plenty at Our Doorstep": FDR on the Causes and Cures of The Great Depression by James F. Pontuso
Leadership and Presidential Powers
FDR's Party Leadership: Origins and Legacy by Sean J. Savage
FDR and the Prerogative Presidency by Mark J. Rozell
The Prudential FDR by Ethan Fishman
The Veto Record of FDR by Samuel B. Hoff
FDR and the "Use Theory": Robert Worth Bingham at the Court of St. James's, 1933-1937 by William E. Ellis
Defining Eleanor, Defining Power: World War II, Racism, and a Preoccupied White House by Allida M. Black
Index

About the author

MARK J. ROZELL is Associate Professor of Political Science at American University. He is author six books, including The Press and the Bush Presidency (Praeger, 1996) and In Contempt of Congress (Praeger, 1996).

WILLIAM D. PEDERSON is Professor of History at Louisiana State University. His six previous titles include Abraham Lincoln: Sources of Style and Leadership (Greenwood, 1994)

Product details

• Authors: William Pederson, Rozell Mark J.
• Assisted by: William D. Pederson (Editor), Mark J. Rozell (Editor)
• Publisher: Bloomsbury
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 26.08.1997
• EAN: 9780275958732
• ISBN: 978-0-275-95873-2
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; USA, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, HISTORY / United States / 20th Century, POLITICAL SCIENCE / American Government / National, Political science & theory, c 1960 to c 1970, United States of America, USA, c 1950 to c 1959, History of the Americas, Political science and theory, c 1970 to c 1979, c 1960 to c 1969, Central / national / federal government policies, c 1970 to c 1980, C 1980 To C 1990, c 1980 to c 1989, C 1945 To C 1960, Central government policies, Politics, Law, and Government: Presidential Studies