Contents

• The age of Cortelyou : William McKinley and Theodore Roosevelt
• The lawyer and the professor : William Howard Taft and Woodrow Wilson
• The modern presidency recedes : Warren G. Harding, Calvin Coolidge, and Herbert Hoover
• The modern presidency revives and grows : Franklin D. Roosevelt
• The presidency in the Cold War era : Harry S. Truman and Dwight D. Eisenhower
• The souring of the modern presidency : John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson
• The rise of the continuous campaign : Richard Nixon
• The modern presidency under siege : Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter
• The modern presidency in a Republican era : Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush
• Perils of the modern presidency : Bill Clinton
• The modern presidency in crisis : George W. Bush