The Politics Of The President S Wife

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As the West Wing has grown in power and organizational complexity during the modern presidency, so has the East Wing, office home to the First Lady of the United States. This groundbreaking work by MaryAnne Borrelli offers both theoretical and substantive insight into behind-the-scenes developments from the time of Lou Henry Hoover to the unfolding tenure of Michelle Robinson Obama. Political scientists and historians have recognized the personal influence the First Lady can exercise with her husband, and they have noted the moral, ethical, and sometimes policy leadership certain presidents’ wives have offered. Nonetheless, scholars and commentators alike have treated the personal relationship and the professional relationship as overlapping. Borrelli offers a compelling counter-perspective: that the president’s wife exercises power intrinsic to her role within the administration. Like others within the presidency, she has sometimes presented the president’s views to constituents and sometimes presented constituents’ views to the president, thus taking on a representative function within the system. In mediating president-constituent relationships, she has given a historical and social frame to the presidency that has enhanced its symbolic representation; she has served as a gender role model, enriching descriptive representation in the executive branch; and she has participated in policy initiatives to strengthen an administration’s substantive representation. These contributions have been controversial, as might be predicted for a gender outsider, but they have unquestionably made the First Lady a representative of and to the president and, by extension, the president’s administration.

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Genre : Political Science
Author : MaryAnne Borrelli
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
Release : 2011-08-15
File : 273 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781603444224


A Companion To Gerald R Ford And Jimmy Carter

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With 30 historiographical essays by established and rising scholars, this Companion is a comprehensive picture of the presidencies and legacies of Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter. Examines important national and international events during the 1970s, as well as presidential initiatives, crises, and legislation Discusses the biography of each man before entering the White House, his legacy and work after leaving office, and the lives of Betty Ford, Rosalynn Carter, and their families Covers key themes and issues, including Watergate and the pardon of Richard Nixon, the Vietnam War, neoconservatism and the rise of the New Right, and the Iran hostage crisis Incorporates presidential, diplomatic, military, economic, social, and cultural history Uses the most recent research and newly released documents from the two Presidential Libraries and the State Department

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Genre : History
Author : Scott Kaufman
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Release : 2015-10-21
File : 606 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781118907580


Michelle Obama

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Michelle Obama: First Lady, American Rhetor is an edited anthology that explores the persona and speech-making of the country’s first African American first lady. The result of these thought-provoking essays is an interdisciplinary text that explores the First Lady from a rhetorical and cultural point of view. Authors analyze her Democratic National Convention speeches, her brand as First Lady, her communication from her latest trip to Africa, her agenda rhetoric in Let’s Move! and Reach Higher, and her coming out as a Black feminist intellectual when she spoke at Maya Angelou’s memorial service. Readers will recognize Michelle Obama as a rhetor of our times—a woman who influences America at the intersections of gender, race, and class and who is representative of what women are today.

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Genre : Social Science
Author : Elizabeth J. Natalle
Publisher : Lexington Books
Release : 2015-08-27
File : 167 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781498512220


In The Home Of The Presidents Biographies Of The Wives Of The Presidents Of The United States With Sixteen Portraits Etc

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Author : Laura Carter HOLLOWAY
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Release : 1875
File : 672 Pages
ISBN-13 : BL:A0026215074


Public Papers Of The Presidents Of The United States

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"Containing the public messages, speeches, and statements of the President", 1956-1992.

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Genre : Presidents
Author : United States. President
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Release : 2000
File : 1186 Pages
ISBN-13 : HARVARD:32044121176804


Mr And Mrs President

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With a new chapter devoted to Hillary and Bill Clinton's tainted partnership in office and to the present First Lady's senatorial ambitions, this second edition offers fresh insights into America's paradoxical expectations for its presidential wives and husband. "Deeply engrossing."--"Publishers Weekly." 33 photos.

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Genre : Biography & Autobiography
Author : Gil Troy
Publisher :
Release : 2000
File : 514 Pages
ISBN-13 : UOM:39015048547700


White House Studies Compendium

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The American Presidency has become one of the most powerful offices in the world with the ascendency of American power in the 20th century.'White House Studies Compendium' brings together piercing analyses of the American presidency -- dealing with both currect issues and historical events.The compendia are the bound issues of 'White House Studies' with the addition of a comprehensive subject index.

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Genre : History
Author : Glenn P. Hastedt
Publisher : Nova Publishers
Release : 2007
File : 466 Pages
ISBN-13 : 1600216803


The Oxford Companion To United States History

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Here is a volume that is as big and as varied as the nation it portrays. With over 1,400 entries written by some 900 historians and other scholars, it illuminates not only America's political, diplomatic, and military history, but also social, cultural, and intellectual trends; science, technology, and medicine; the arts; and religion. Here are the familiar political heroes, from George Washington and Benjamin Franklin, to Abraham Lincoln, Woodrow Wilson, and Franklin D. Roosevelt. But here, too, are scientists, writers, radicals, sports figures, and religious leaders, with incisive portraits of such varied individuals as Thomas Edison and Eli Whitney, Babe Ruth and Muhammed Ali, Black Elk and Crazy Horse, Margaret Fuller, Emma Goldman, and Marian Anderson, even Al Capone and Jesse James. The Companion illuminates events that have shaped the nation (the Great Awakening, Bunker Hill, Wounded Knee, the Vietnam War); major Supreme Court decisions (Marbury v. Madison, Roe v. Wade); landmark legislation (the Fugitive Slave Law, the Pure Food and Drug Act); social movements (Suffrage, Civil Rights); influential books (The Jungle, Uncle Tom's Cabin); ideologies (conservatism, liberalism, Social Darwinism); even natural disasters and iconic sites (the Chicago Fire, the Johnstown Flood, Niagara Falls, the Lincoln Memorial). Here too is the nation's social and cultural history, from Films, Football, and the 4-H Club, to Immigration, Courtship and Dating, Marriage and Divorce, and Death and Dying. Extensive multi-part entries cover such key topics as the Civil War, Indian History and Culture, Slavery, and the Federal Government. A new volume for a new century, The Oxford Companion to United States History covers everything from Jamestown and the Puritans to the Human Genome Project and the Internet--from Columbus to Clinton. Written in clear, graceful prose for researchers, browsers, and general readers alike, this is the volume that addresses the totality of the American experience, its triumphs and heroes as well as its tragedies and darker moments.

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Genre : History
Author : Paul S. Boyer
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Release : 2001-07-04
File : 985 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9780199771103


The President S Wife Mary Todd Lincoln

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Mary Todd Lincoln-one of the most remarkable and controversial First Ladies in American history-comes to life in this romantic biography.

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Genre : Biography & Autobiography
Author : Ishbel Ross
Publisher : New York : G. P. Putnam's Sons
Release : 1973
File : 408 Pages
ISBN-13 : UOM:39015014173440


Barack Obama And The Politics Of Change

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Applies psychoanalytic theory to Obama's personality and behavior during his first two years as president, examining how his childhood experiences affected his political ideology, leadership style, and quest for redemption in his political life.

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Genre : Biography & Autobiography
Author : Stanley A. Renshon
Publisher : Routledge
Release : 2012-03-15
File : 405 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781135193997