FDR and the Modern Presidency: Leadership and Legacy

In this volume Rozell and Peterson bring together a collection of new essays exploring the unparalleled impact of Franklin D. Roosevelt on the modern presidency. Of all the modern presidents, FDR looms largest. Indeed, most scholars date the origins of the modern presidency to FDR, and many assert that no one since has achieved his level of greatness in office. The essays are organized into two broad sections: The first examines FDR's impact on the creation and development of the administrative presidency and the legacy of the New Deal; the second looks at FDR's legacy to presidential leadership and the exercise of presidential powers. An important volume for scholars and other researchers of the FDR era and the modern American presidency.

Table of Contents:
FDR's Leadership and Legacy by Mark J. Rozell and William D. Pederson The Administrative Presidency and the New Deal Uprooting the Presidential Branch? The Lessons of FDR by Matthew J. Dickinson Administering Democracy: Personnel Management in the Federal Civil Service, 1933-1953 by Margaret C. Rung When Henry Met Franklin by Martin Halpern The Utility of Newness: State Managers and the Creation of Civil Works by Michael Lewis "Plenty at Our Doorstep": FDR on the Causes and Cures of The Great Depression by James F. Pontuso Leadership and Presidential Powers FDR's Party Leadership: Origins and Legacy by Sean J. Savage FDR and the Prerogative Presidency by Mark J. Rozell The Prudential FDR by Ethan Fishman The Veto Record of FDR by Samuel B. Hoff FDR and the "Use Theory": Robert Worth Bingham at the Court of St. James's, 1933-1937 by William E. Ellis Defining Eleanor, Defining Power: World War II, Racism, and a Preoccupied White House by Allida M. Black Index

About the Author :
MARK J. ROZELL is Associate Professor of Political Science at American University. He is author six books, including The Press and the Bush Presidency (Praeger, 1996) and In Contempt of Congress (Praeger, 1996). WILLIAM D. PEDERSON is Professor of History at Louisiana State University. His six previous titles include Abraham Lincoln: Sources of Style and Leadership (Greenwood, 1994)

Review :
?Rozell and Pederson have assembled a collection of 11 first-rate essays on FDR's contributions to the modern presidency. All of the pieces remind us that FDR was every bit as extraordinary as the times in which he governed....Eminently useful to undergraduates, graduate students, and presidency scholars alike.?-Choice "Rozell and Pederson have assembled a collection of 11 first-rate essays on FDR's contributions to the modern presidency. All of the pieces remind us that FDR was every bit as extraordinary as the times in which he governed....Eminently useful to undergraduates, graduate students, and presidency scholars alike."-Choice