Triumphs and Tragedies of the Modern Presidency: Case Studies in Presidential Leadership

Assessment of President Barack Obama's "light footprint" foreign policy and former president George W. Bush's decider/delegator personas are among new topics included in this second edition to an anthology that the Center for the Study of the Presidency and Congress, a nonpartisan/nonprofit organization, first produced in 2000. The work is edited by Angerholzer (president, CEO, the Ctr. for the Study of the Presidency and Congress), James Kitfield (contributing editor, National Journal), Norman Orstein (resident scholar, the American Enterprise Inst.), and Stephen Skowronek (political & social science, Yale Univ.), and a host of well-known historians and journalists, including Ronald Reagan biographer Lou Cannon and the New York Times' David Sanger, author chapters organized within sections dedicated to the concept of modern presidency, the first 100 days of a presidency, domestic milestones, national security, foreign policy, and scandals.