Recapturing the Oval Office: New Historical Approaches to the American Presidency
By Brian Balogh and Bruce J. Schulman
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Several generations of historians figuratively abandoned the Oval Office as the bastion of out-of-fashion stories of great men. And now, decades later, the historical analysis of the American presidency remains on the outskirts of historical scholarship, even as policy and political history have rebounded within the academy. In Recapturing the Oval Office, leading historians and social scientists forge an agenda for returning the study of the presidency to the mainstream practice of history and they chart how the study of the presidency can be integrated into historical narratives that combine rich analyses of political, social, and cultural history. The authors demonstrate how "bringing the presidency back in" can deepen understanding of crucial questions regarding race relations, religion, and political economy. The contributors illuminate the conditions that have both empowered and limited past presidents, and thus show how social, cultural, and political contexts matter. By making the history of the presidency a serious part of the scholarly agenda in the future, historians have the opportunity to influence debates about the proper role of the president today.
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- Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5I blame myself more than the book for the rating. It's geared towards people that are already kind of rookie presidential scholars at least and so most of the discussion isn't about the actual occurrences in the presidency, but a meta-discussion on how this discussion impacted analysis of presidencies. Some of the essays are interesting, however the majority are fairly dry