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ISBN 13: 9780700618835
ISBN 10: 070061883X
Edition: 2nd
Format: Paperback
Copyright: 09/12/2012
Publisher: Univ Pr of Kansas

Why Moderates Make the Best Presidents: George Washington to Barack Obama

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Preface to the Second Edition	p. ix
Introduction: Presidents as Muscular Moderates
A "Middle Course" for Our "Common Cause"	p. 1
Washington's Way
"Liberal Allowances, Mutual Forbearances, and Temporizing Yieldings on All Sides"	p. 19
Compromisers, Zealots, and Ciphers
The Blessing of Parties, the Challenge of Slavery, and the Failure of Presidents	p. 39
Abraham Lincoln's Middle Measure
A Cautious Politician's "My Policy Is to Have No Policy" Pragmatism	p. 57
Theodore Roosevelt's Democratic Two-Step
The Rise of the Romantic, Nationalist Presidency	p. 75
Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal
The Radical as Moderate	p. 93
Truman, Eisenhower, and America's Bipartisan Consensus
Building Political Unity through Cultural Conformity	p. 123

Moderation and the Challenge of Change	p. 147
The Consensus Collapses
Lyndon Johnson and the Limits of Moderation	p. 165
Learning from Losers
Where Richard Nixon and Jimmy Carter Went Wrong	p. 183
Ronald Reagan's Moderate Revolution
Resurrecting the Center	p. 201
Bill Clinton and the Perils of Triangulation
The Need to be Muscular as Well as Moderate	p. 223
George W. Bush
Imprisoned by Conviction?	p. 247
Conclusion: Center Seeking in the Twenty-first Century
Is Political Moderation Possible in an Age of Excess?	p. 273
Afterword: A President and a People in Search of Moderation	p. 287
Acknowledgments	p. 297
A Note on Sources	p. 301
Notes	p. 309
Index	p. 337
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