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Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

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.

All Ages.