FDR and the Modern Presidency: Leadership and Legacy

Table of contents

• Title Page iii
• Contents v
• FDR's Leadership and Legacy 1
• Part I - The Administrative Presidency and the New Deal 11
• Uprooting the Presidential Branch? the Lessons of FDR 13
• Notes 27
• Administering Democracy: Personnel Management in the Federal Civil Service, 1933-1953 37
• Notes 54
• When Henry Met Franklin 63
• Notes 78
• The Utility of Newness: State Managers and the Creation of Civil Works 83
• Notes 98
• Plenty at Our Doorstep: FDR on the Causes and Cures of the Great Depression 103
• Notes 113
• Part II - Leadership and Presidential Powers 117
• FDR's Party Leadership: Origins and Legacy 119
• Notes 130
• FDR and the Prerogative Presidency 133
• Notes 144
• The Prudential FDR 147
• Notes 163
• The Veto Record of FDR 167
• Notes 179
• FDR and the "Use Theory": Robert Worth Bingham at the Court of St. James'S, 1933-1937 185
• Notes 202
• Defining Eleanor, Defining Power: World War II, Racism, and a Preoccupied White House 209
• Notes 223
• Index 229
• About the Editors and Contributors 241

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