Mark Zachary Taylor

Presidential Leadership in Feeble Times

Explaining Executive Power in the Gilded Age

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Produktbeschreibung

Do presidents matter for America's economic performance? The Gilded Age presidents of the late nineteenth century seem like weak and forgettable leaders, but they hold the key to answering this question precisely because of their supposed impotence. In Presidential Leadership in Feeble Times, Mark Zachary Taylor tells the story of three decades of Gilded Age economic upheaval with a focus on presidential leadership--why did some presidents crash and burn, while others prospered? Neither education nor experience mattered much. Nor did brains, personal ethics, or party affiliation. Instead, Taylor finds that a president's effectiveness as an economic leader flows primarily from their vision for the country and their leadership style.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Hurst & Co.
• Seitenzahl: 608
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. November 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 224mm x 170mm x 66mm
• Gewicht: 975g
• ISBN-13: 9780197750742
• ISBN-10: 0197750745
• Artikelnr.: 68043752

Autorenporträt

Mark Zachary Taylor is an Associate Professor of Public Policy at the Georgia Institute of Technology. With a background in strategic consulting, he specializes in political economy, international relations, and comparative politics. He is the author of The Politics of Innovation, and has published research in Foreign Affairs, Presidential Studies Quarterly, Security Studies, and Harvard International Review.

Inhaltsangabe

* Preface
* Acknowledgements
* A Note on Abbreviations, Data, and Sources
* 1. Introduction
* 2. The Puzzle of the Presidents and the Economy during the Gilded Age
* 3. Prelude: The Civil War
* Interlude: Into the 1870s
* 4. Ulysses S. Grant, First Term: "A great soldier might be a baby
politician," 1869-1873
* 5. Ulysses S. Grant, Second Term: Panic, Depression, and The Dawn of
the Gilded Age, 1873-1877
* 6. Rutherford B. Hayes and the Great Economic Boom, 1877-1881
* Interlude: Into the 1880s
* 7. James A. Garfield and the Economy of 1881
* 8. Chester Arthur and the Smoldering Depression of 1881-1885
* 9. Grover Cleveland: Strict Constitutionalism and the Challenge of
Recession, 1885-1889
* Interlude: Into the 1890s
* 10. Benjamin Harrison-Patriot and Partisan: Planting the Seeds of
Crisis, 1889-1893
* 11. Grover Cleveland Returns: The Great Depression of 1893-1897
* 12. William McKinley and the Developmental State, 1897-1901
* 13. Conclusions
* Appendix: Estimating the Presidents' Economic Performance-Data,
Sources, and Methods
* Notes
* References
* Index