The White House Vice Presidency

Released on by Joel K. Goldstein
preview-18

  • The White House Vice Presidency Book Detail

  • Author : Joel K. Goldstein
  • Release Date : 2017-03-03
  • Publisher : University Press of Kansas
  • Genre : Political Science
  • Pages : 440
  • ISBN 13 : 070062483X
  • File Size : 47,47 MB
DOWNLOAD BOOK

The White House Vice Presidency by Joel K. Goldstein PDF Summary

Book Description: "I am nothing, but I may be everything," John Adams, the first vice president, wrote of his office. And for most of American history, the "nothing" part of Adams's formulation accurately captured the importance of the vice presidency, at least as long as the president had a heartbeat. But a job that once was "not worth a bucket of warm spit," according to John Nance Garner, became, in the hands of the most recent vice presidents, critical to the governing of the country on an ongoing basis. It is this dramatic development of the nation's second office that Joel K. Goldstein traces and explains in The White House Vice Presidency. The rise of the vice presidency took a sharp upward trajectory with the vice presidency of Walter Mondale. In Goldstein's work we see how Mondale and Jimmy Carter designed and implemented a new model of the office that allowed the vice president to become a close presidential adviser and representative on missions that mattered. Goldstein takes us through the vice presidents from Mondale to Joe Biden, presenting the arrangements each had with his respective president, showing elements of continuity but also variations in the office, and describing the challenges each faced and the work each did. The book also examines the vice-presidential selection process and campaigns since 1976, and shows how those activities affect and/or are affected by the newly developed White House vice presidency. The book presents a comprehensive account of the vice presidency as the office has developed from Mondale to Biden. But The White House Vice Presidency is more than that; it also shows how a constitutional office can evolve through the repetition of accumulated precedents and demonstrates the critical role of political leadership in institutional development. In doing so, the book offers lessons that go far beyond the nation's second office, important as it now has become.

Disclaimer: www.yourbookbest.com does not own The White House Vice Presidency books pdf, neither created or scanned. We just provide the link that is already available on the internet, public domain and in Google Drive. If any way it violates the law or has any issues, then kindly mail us via contact us page to request the removal of the link.

The White House Vice Presidency

The White House Vice Presidency

File Size : 5,5 MB
Total View : 7757 Views
DOWNLOAD

"I am nothing, but I may be everything," John Adams, the first vice president, wrote of his office. And for most of American history, the "nothing" part of Adam

The White House Vice Presidency

The White House Vice Presidency

File Size : 1,1 MB
Total View : 6247 Views
DOWNLOAD

The White House Vice Presidency provides a comprehensive account of the contemporary vice presidency as it has developed over the last four decades.

Vice President Kamala Harris

Vice President Kamala Harris

File Size : 40,40 MB
Total View : 447 Views
DOWNLOAD

The first fully illustrated book on Kamala Harris’s life and work, a retrospective that celebrates and honors her barrier-breaking achievements. When Kamala H

The American Vice Presidency Reconsidered

The American Vice Presidency Reconsidered

File Size : 67,67 MB
Total View : 2273 Views
DOWNLOAD

Since 1960 the office of the vice presidency of the United States has evolved into a fundamentally different institution than the one the founders envisioned, a

Picking the Vice President

Picking the Vice President

File Size : 6,6 MB
Total View : 5817 Views
DOWNLOAD

How Picking the Vice President Has Changed—and Why It Matters During the past three decades, two important things have changed about the U.S. vice presidency: