The Obama presidency in the constitutional order : a first look / edited by Carol McNamara and Melanie M. Marlowe.

The Obama administration is shaping up to be one of the most consequential in recent American history. In this book, a diverse group of presidential scholars step back from the partisan debate to consider the first two years of the Obama presidency through the lens of the U.S. constitution's th...

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Contributors: McNamara, Carol, 1961-, Marlowe, Melanie M.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, ©2011.
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Table of Contents:
  • The Obama campaign revolution: presidential electioneering in the digital age / Anthony Corrado
  • Professor Obama and the Constitution / David K. Nichols
  • President Obama and executive independence / Melanie M. Marlowe
  • President Obama and Congress: deference, disinterest, or collusion? / Andrew E. Busch
  • The spirit is partially willing: the legal realism and half-hearted minimalism of President Obama / Joshua Dunn
  • President Obama, the intelligence community, and the war on terror: "change we can believe in?" / Stephen F. Knott
  • The end of small politics? Barack Obama and the Progressive movement / David Alvis
  • Presidential masks: Barack Obama and FDR / Marc Landy
  • Barack Obama's postracial presidency: a new Joshua for a new civil rights era / Carol McNamara
  • The changing face of Barack Obama's leadership / James W. Ceaser.