Recapturing the Oval Office: New Historical Approaches to the American Presidency

by Bruce Schulman and Stephen Skowronek

Book Overview

Several generations of historians figuratively abandoned the Oval Office as the bastion of out-of-fashion stories of great men. And now, decades later, the historical analysis of the American presidency remains on the outskirts of historical scholarship, even as policy and political history have rebounded within the academy. In Recapturing the Oval Office, leading historians and social scientists forge an agenda for returning the study of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801456576
• ISBN13: 9780801456572
• Release Date: November 2015
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 4.9" x 10.3"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher