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The Presidency A to Z is an invaluable tool for understanding the presidency, both historically and today and for appraising how it and the executive branch have responded to the challenges facing the nation. It provides readers with quick information and in-depth background on the presidency through a comprehensive encyclopedia of over 300 easy-to-read entries.''''Important new topics include:'''' John Kerry '' Article II '' Clinton v. Jones '' Signing Statements '' Hurricane Katrina '' Mount Rushmore ''''Readers will find:'''' Biographies of every president and many others important to the office '' Explanations of broader concepts and powers relating to the presidency '' Discussions of relations with Congress, the Supreme Court, the bureaucracy, political parties, the media, interest groups, and the public ''''The Presidency A to Z includes all the features that made earlier editions so popular: charts, tables, lists, photographs, cartoons, indexes, a bibliography, and cross-references. Now with an attention-grabbing new design, this handy reference also comes at a new lower price.''
The Presidency A to Z is an invaluable tool for understanding the presidency, both historically and today and for appraising how it and the executive branch have responded to the challenges facing the nation. It provides readers with quick information and in-depth background on the presidency through a comprehensive encyclopedia of over 300 easy-to-read entries.''''Important new topics include:'''' John Kerry '' Article II '' Clinton v. Jones '' Signing Statements '' Hurricane Katrina '' Mount Rushmore ''''Readers will find:'''' Biographies of every president and many others important to the office '' Explanations of broader concepts and powers relating to the presidency '' Discussions of relations with Congress, the Supreme Court, the bureaucracy, political parties, the media, interest groups, and the public ''''The Presidency A to Z includes all the features that made earlier editions so popular: charts, tables, lists, photographs, cartoons, indexes, a bibliography, and cross-references. Now with an attention-grabbing new design, this handy reference also comes at a new lower price.''
Gerhard Peters is the co-creator, along with John T.Woolley, of The
American Presidency Project.
Peters is a frequent lecturer on American politics and the
presidency at various colleges in
southern California. John T. Woolley is professor of political
science and department chair at the University of
California, Santa Barbara. One of the creators of the American
Presidency Project,Woolley has
written extensively on the president’s management of the economy,
presidential vetoes, and the
study of change in the presidency. 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.
At over 700 pages and also available online, this core title, published since 1992, follows in the venerable tradition of its predecessors, providing a comprehensive encyclopedic treatment of the U.S. presidency. Updated to reflect the Obama administration, it contains over 300 entries addressing all aspects of the executive branch. Thus, it is essentially a revision of the previous 2007 edition with material added to refresh the contents, including new biographies, reexamination of previous topics, and discussion of supervening developments related to particular issues (e.g., relations with Congress). It is an ideal quick reference source, especially when read in tandem with the publisher's two-volume Guide to the U.S. Presidency and the Executive Branch (5th ed., 2010), which it complements. Encyclopedia of the American Presidency (Facts on File, 2012) is a lower-priced comparable alternative. VERDICT A recommended purchase for all libraries and a required one for those with earlier editions, which it supplants. Libraries should consider the electronic version, available separately or along with the print, or as part of an online package.-David Ettinger, George Washington Univ. Lib., Washington, DC (c) Copyright 2013. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
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