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The Modern American Presidency.

Publication: Presidential Studies Quarterly
Publication Date: 01-MAR-04 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: The Modern American Presidency.(Book Review)

Article Excerpt
The Modern American Presidency. By Lewis L. Gould. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2003. xv, 301 pp.

When did the "modern presidency" begin? And of what does it consist? Lewis L. Gould, professor emeritus of history at the University of Texas, begins by identifying its principal components as "a significant increase in the size of the White House staff, a chief of staff to manage the expanded personnel, bureaucratic procedures to handle the interactions with the press, formalized relations with Congress through a White House office, greater power for the president as commander in chief, expanded travel in and out of the United States to build political support, increasing access...

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