The Progressive Presidents: Roosevelt, Wilson, Roosevelt, Johnson

by John Morton Blum

Book Overview

Advocates of a strong versus a weak presidency have struggled throughout American history, but never so fiercely as in the twentieth century, which saw the rise of progressivism. This is the story of... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393013308
• ISBN13: 9780393013306
• Release Date: January 1980
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 221 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.

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John Blum's short, but informative book on the Progressive Presidents presents a fairly balanced picture of the presidency after the ascendency of progressivism. The author admits he is a "conventional liberal" who "grew up" with the FDR administration while he "admired" FDR. However, he raises many important questions about the "Imperial Presidency" that this men invented. He admits that in the wake of welfare-statism after LBJ has "provoked reconsideration." This reconsideration owes itself to the progressive presidents continiously testing, exceeding, breaching and redefining constitutional and customary limits to power. For an avowed liberal to even concede that the Presidency at the behest of progressive liberalism has perhaps gone awry is a watershed event.

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