This is a revised edition of Presidential power, 1980, which was originally published by Wiley in 1960. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Since the early 1960s, scholarly thinking on the power of U.S. presidents has rested on these words: "Presidential power is the power to persuade." Power, in th

This sterling collection of original, never-before-published essays on six fascinating contemporary presidents by some of the leading presidential biographers o

The politics of leadership from FDR to Carter.

How the search for power defines the American presidential office All American presidents, past and present, have cared deeply about power—acquiring, protecti