 | Recapturing the Oval Office: New Historical Approaches to the American Presidency Subjects: Presidents -- United States -- History -- 20th century; Executive power -- United States -- History -- 20th century; United States -- Politics and government -- 20th century; Contributors forge an agenda for returning the study of the presidency to the mainstream practice of history, charting how the study of the presidency can be integrated into historical narratives that combine rich analyses of political, social, and cultural history. Brian Balogh is the Compton Professor at the Miller Center and the Corcoran Department of History at the University of Virginia. He is the author of A Government Out of Sight: The Mystery of National Authority in Nineteenth-Century America and editor of Integrating the Sixties: The Origins, Structure and Legacy of a Turbulent Decade . Bruce J. Schulman is the William E. Huntington Professor of History at Boston University. He is the author of From Cotton Belt to Sunbelt: Federal Policy, Economic Development, and the Transformation of the South, 1938-1980 ; Lyndon B. Johnson and American Liberalism: A Brief Biography with Documents ; and The Seventies: The Great Shift in American Culture, Society, and Politics . |
