How the American executive office was constructed in the Constitution and implemented by the first presidents This volume examines the political ideas behind th

“[A] wide-ranging and nuanced group portrait of the Founding Fathers” by a Pulitzer Prize winner (The New Yorker). In the early 1770s, the men who invented

The American Presidency examines the constitutional foundation of the executive office and the social, economic, political, and international forces that have r

This book examines the contact relationships between U.S. presidents and America's intellectuals since 1960.

At a time when the institution of the presidency seems in a state of almost permanant crisis, it is particularly important to understand what sort of an institu