Recent books published on the presidency:
Note: Titles in all italics are textbooks/course readers.
2015
Howell, William. 2015. An American Presidency: Institutional Foundations of Executive
Politics. New York: Pearson.
Howell, William, and Terry Moe. 2015. Prisoners of Our Past. New York: Basic Books.
Resh, William G. 2015. The Administrative Presidency: Appointee-Careerist Relations
in
the George W. Bush Presidency and Beyond. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins
University.
Rottinghaus, Brandon. 2015. The Institutional Effects of Executive Scandal. New York:
Cambridge University Press.
Sparrow, Bartholomew H. 2015. The Strategist: Brent Scowcroft and the Call of
National
Security. New York: Public Affairs Press.
Stuckey, Mary E. 2015. Rhetoric: A Presidential Briefing Book. Piscatawy, NJ:
Transaction.
Stuckey, Mary E. 2015. Voting Deliberatively: FDR and the 1936 Presidential
Campaign. University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press.
Vaughn, Justin S., and José D. Villalobos. 2015. Czars in the White House: The Rise of
Policy Czars as a Presidential Management Tool. Ann Arbor, MI: University of
Michigan Press.
Wayne, Stephen J. 2015. The Road to the White House 2016, 10th ed. Boston, MA:
Cengage.
2014
Arthur, C. Damien. 2014. Economic Actors, Economic Behaviors, and Presidential
Leadership: The Constrained Effects of Rhetoric. Lanham, MD: Lexington
Books.
Azari, Julia R. 2014. Delivering the People’s Message: The Changing Politics of the
Presidential Mandate. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press.
Bose, Meena, ed. 2014. Change in the White House? Comparing the Presidencies of
George W. Bush and Barack Obama. New York: Nova Science Publishers.
Bose, Meena, ed. 2014. U.S. Presidential Leadership at the United Nations from 1945
to
the Present. New York: Nova Science Publishers.
Cullinane, Michael Patrick, and Clare Frances Elliott, eds. 2014. Perspectives on
Presidential Leadership: An International View of the White House. New York:
Routledge.
DePlato, Justin P. 2014. The Cavalier Presidency: Executive Power and Prerogative in
Times of Crisis. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books.
Drury, Jeffrey P. Mehltretter. 2014. Speaking with the People’s Voice: How Presidents
Invoke Public Opinion. College Station, TX: Texas A&M University Press.
Engstrom, Erik J., and Samuel Kernell. 2014. Party Ballots, Reform, and the
Transformation of America’s Electoral System. New York: Cambridge
University Press.
Genovese, Michael A., Todd L. Belt, and William W. Lammers. 2014. The Presidency
and Domestic Policy: Comparing Leadership Styles, FDR to Obama, 2nd ed.
Boulder, CO: Paradigm Publishers.
Hudak, John. 2014. Presidential Pork: White House Influence over the Distribution of
Federal Grants. Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution Press.
Kehoe, Genevieve M. 2014. Presidents and Terminal Logic Behavior: Term Limits and
Executive Action in the United States, Brazil, and Argentina. College Station,
TX: Texas A&M University Press.
King, Erika G. 2014. Obama, The Media, and Framing the U.S. Exit From Iraq And
Afghanistan. Burlington, VT: Ashgate Publishing.
Major, Mark. 2014. The Unilateral Presidency and the News Media: The Politics of
Framing Executive Power. New York: Palgrave MacMillan.
McAndrews, Lawrence J. 2014. What They Wished For: American Catholics and
American Presidents, 1960-2004. Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press.
Nelson, Michael. 2014. Resilient America: Electing Nixon in 1968, Channeling Dissent,
and Dividing Government. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas.
Nelson, Michael, and Barbara A. Perry. 2014. 41: Inside the Presidency of George H.W.
Bush. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press.
Remington, Thomas F. 2014. Presidential Decrees in Russia: A Comparative
Perspective. New York: Cambridge University Press.
Shafie, David M. 2014. Presidential Administration and the Environment: Executive
Leadership in the Age of Gridlock. New York: Routledge.
Sin, Gisela. 2014. Separation of Powers and Legislative Organization: The President,
the
Senate, and Political Parties in the Making of House Rules. New York:
Cambridge University Press.
Skidmore, Max J. 2014. Maligned Presidents: The Late 19th Century. New York:
Palgrave Pivot.
Tatalovich, Raymond, and Steven E. Schier. 2014. The Presidency and Political
Science,
2nd ed. Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe.
Vaughn, Justin S., and Jennifer R. Mercieca. 2012. The Rhetoric of Heroic
Expectations:
Establishing the Obama Presidency. College Station, TX: Texas A&M University
Press.
Waterman, Richard, Carol L. Silva, and Hank Jenkins-Smith. 2014. The Presidential
Expectations Gap: Public Attitudes Concerning the Presidency. Ann Arbor, MI:
University of Michigan Press.
2013
Alvis, J. David, Jeremy D. Bailey, and F. Flagg Taylor, IV. 2013. The Contested Removal
Power, 1789-2010. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas.
Box-Steffensmeier, Janet M., and Steven E. Schier, eds. 2013. The American Elections
of
2012. New York: Routledge.
Cronin, Thomas E., and Michael A. Genovese. 2013. The Paradoxes of the American
Presidency, 4th ed. New York: Oxford University Press.
Dodds, Graham G. 2013. Take Up Your Pen: Unilateral Presidential Directives in
American Politics. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press.
Dunn, Susan. 2013. 1940s: FDR, Wilkie, Lindbergh, Hitler – The Election Amid the
Storm, New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.
Edelson, Chris. 2013. Emergency Presidential Power. Madison, WI: University of
Wisconsin Press.
Ellis, Sylvia. 2013. Freedom’s Pragmatist: Lyndon Johnson and Civil Rights.
Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida.
Gailmard, Sean, and John W. Patty. 2013. Learning While Governing: Expertise and
Accountability in the Executive Branch. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Gardner, Lloyd C. 2013. Killing Machine: The American Presidency in the Age of Drone
Warfare. New York: The New Press.
Garrison, Justin D. 2013. “An Empire of Ideas”: The Chimeric Imagination of Ronald
Reagan. New York: Routledge.
Genovese, Michael A. 2013. A Presidential Nation: Causes, Consequence, and Cures.
Boulder, CO: Westview.
Genovese, Michael A. 2013. The Presidential Dilemma: Revisiting Democratic
Leadership in the American System, 3rd ed. Piscataway, NJ: Transaction.
Greenstein, Fred I. 2013. Presidents and the Dissolution of the Union: Leadership Style
from Polk to Lincoln. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
Heith, Diane J. 2013. The Presidential Road Show: Public Leadership in an Era of Party
Polarization and Media Fragmentation. Boulder, CO: Paradigm Publishers.
Howell, William. 2013. Thinking about the Presidency: The Primacy of Power.
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
Howell, William, Saul Jackman, and Jon Rogowski. 2013. The Wartime President:
Executive Influence and the Nationalizing Politics of Threat. Chicago:
University of Chicago Press.
Johnson, Dennis W. 2013. Campaigning for President 2012: Strategy and Tactics, 2nd
ed.
New York: Routledge.
Kelley, Donald R., and Todd G. Shields, eds. 2013. Taking the Measure: The Presidency
of George W. Bush. College Station, TX: Texas A&M University Press.
Mezey, Michael L. 2013. Presidentialism: Power in Comparative Perspective. Boulder,
CO: Lynne Rienner.
Nye, Joseph S., Jr. 2013. Presidential Leadership and the Creation of the American Era.
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
Orentlicher, David. 2013. Two Presidents are Better Than One: The Case for a
Bipartisan Executive Branch. NYU Press.
Pasley, Jeffrey. 2013. The First Presidential Contest: 1796 and the Founding of
American Democracy. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas.
Perry, Barbara A. 2013. Rose Kennedy: The Life and Times of a Political Matriarch.
New
York: W.W. Norton & Co.
Pfiffner, James, and Roger H. Davidson, eds. 2013. Understanding the Presidency, 7 th
ed. New York: Longman.
Rucker, Mary L. 2013. Obama’s Political Saga: From Battling History, Racialized
Rhetoric, and GOP Obstructionism to Re-Election. Lanham, MD: Lexington
Books.
Shafie, David M. 2013. Eleventh Hour: The Politics of Policy Initiatives in Presidential
Transitions. College Station, TX: Texas A&M University Press.
Sheeler, Kristina Horn, and Karrin Vasby Anderson. 2013. Woman President:
Confronting Postfeminist Political Culture. College Station, TX: Texas A&M
University Press.
Sides, John, and Lynn Vavreck. 2013. The Gamble: Choice and Chance in the 2012
Presidential Election. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. Denver, CO:
Outskirts Press.
Sorrentino, Frank M. 2013. Presidential Leadership and the Bureaucratic State.
Stuckey, Mary E. 2013. The Good Neighbor: Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Rhetoric of
American Power. East Lansing, MI: Michigan State University Press.
Zeisberg, Mariah. 2013. War Powers: The Politics of Constitutional Authority.
Princeton,
NJ: Princeton University Press.
2012
Barilleaux, Ryan J., and Jewerl Maxwell. 2012. Tough Times for the President: Political
Adversity and the Sources of Presidential Power. Amherst, NY: Cambria Press.
Buchanan, Bruce. 2012. Presidential Power and Accountability: Toward a Presidential
Accountability System. New York: Routledge.
Cronin, Thomas E. 2012. Leadership Matters: Unleashing the Power of Paradox.
Boulder, CO: Paradigm Publishers.
Doherty, Brendan J. 2012. The Rise of the President’s Permanent Campaign.
Lawrence,
KS: University Press of Kansas.
Edwards, George C., III. 2012. Overreach: Leadership in the Obama Presidency.
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
Genovese, Michael A., and Iwan W. Morgan, eds. 2012. Watergate Remembered: The
Legacy for American Politics. New York: Palgrave.
Han, Lori Cox, and Diane Heith. 2012. Presidents and the American Presidency. New
York: Oxford University Press.
Mislan, David Bell. 2012. Enemies of the American Way: Identity and Presidential
Foreign Policymaking. New York: Continuum.
Polsky, Andrew J. 2012. Elusive Victories: The American Presidency at War. New
York:
Oxford University Press.
Vaughn, Justin S., and Lilly J. Goren. 2012. Women and the White House: Gender,
Popular Culture, and Presidential Politics. Lexington, KY: University Press of
Kentucky.
Wood, B. Dan. 2012. Presidential Saber Rattling: Causes and Consequences. New York:
Cambridge University Press.
Yarbrough, Jean M. 2012. Theodore Roosevelt and the American Political Tradition.
Lawrence, KS: University of Kansas Press.
2011
Bose, Meena, ed. 2011. From Votes to Victory: Winning and Governing the White
House
in the Twenty-First Century. College Station, TX: Texas A&M University Press.
Bose, Meena, ed. 2011. President or King? Evaluating the Expansion of Executive
Power
from Abraham Lincoln to George W. Bush. New York: Nova Science Publishers.
Edwards, George C., III. 2011. Why the Electoral College is Bad for America, 2nd ed.
New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.
Eshbaugh-Soha, Matthew, and Jeffrey S. Peake. 2011. Breaking through the Noise:
Presidential Leadership, Public Opinion, and the News Media. Stanford, CA:
Stanford University Press.
Genovese, Michael A, ed. 2011. Contending Approaches to the American Presidency.
Washington, D.C.: CQ Press.
Korzi, Michael J. 2011. Presidential Term Limits in American History: Power,
Principles, and Politics. College Station, TX: Texas A&M University Press.
Saunders, Elizabeth N. 2011. Leaders at War: How Presidents Shape Military
Interventions. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press.
2010
Altschuler, Bruce. 2010. Acting Presidents: 100 Years of Plays about the Presidency.
New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
Barilleaux, Ryan J., and Christopher S. Kelley, eds. 2010. The Unitary Executive and
the
Modern Presidency. College Station, TX: Texas A&M University Press.
Genovese, Michael A., ed. 2010. The Encyclopedia of the American Presidency, 2nd ed.
New York: Facts on File.
Pfiffner, James. 2010. The Modern Presidency, 6th ed. Belmont, CA:
Wadsworth/Thomson.
Pfiffner, James. 2010. Torture as Public Policy. Boulder, CO: Paradigm Publishers.
Rottinghaus, Brandon. 2010. The Provisional Pulpit: Modern Presidential Leadership
of
Public Opinion. College Station, TX: Texas A&M University Press.