The Politics of the Presidency or An Evening with Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson

The Politics of the Presidency

Author: Joseph August Pika

About the Author:
Joseph A. Pika is professor of political science and international relations at the University of Delaware. He holds a PhD from the University of Wisconsin and taught previously at SUNY at Buffalo

About the Author:
John Anthony Maltese is the Albert Berry Saye Professor of American Government and Constitutional Law and a Josiah Meigs Distinguished Teaching Professor at the University of Georgia's School of Public and International Affairs

Table of Contents:

I	The president and the public
1	The changing presidency	1
2	Election politics	30
3	Public politics	78
4	Presidential character and performance	128
II	The president and the government
5	Legislative politics	175
6	Executive politics	214
7	Judicial politics	257
III	The president and public policy
8	The politics of domestic policy	293
9	The politics of economic policy	321
10	The politics of national security policy	360
11	George W. Bush : challenges of a wartime president	397

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An Evening with Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson: Dinner, Wine, and Conversation

Author: James Gabler

In An Evening with Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson, the reader, through a dream sequence, is transported back in time to 18th century Paris. In the comfort of Jefferson's residence on the Champs-Elysйes, Franklin and Jefferson tell in their own words the most interesting stories of their lives. There are nearly nine hundred citations of authority to support all of Franklin and Jefferson's comments.

They talk about their early years, their embarrassments, disappointments, intrigues, travels, social activities in London and Paris, the women in their lives, the libel and slander they suffered at the hands of their political enemies, slavery, religion, their opinions of and associations with George Washington, John Adams, John Paul Jones, Marquis de Lafayette, the charismatic Edward Bancroft, a British spy who was Franklin's secretary and friend, and much more.