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Article: Presidents and the People: the Partisan Story of Going Public.(Book Review)
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- Presidential Studies Quarterly
- Article date:
- June 1, 2003
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By Mel Laracey. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2002. 267 pp.
Presidents and the People explores the deep historical roots of popular presidential leadership. Laracey challenges the view, made prominent by scholars such as Jeffrey Tulis, James Caeser, and Samuel Kernell, that White House efforts to rouse public opinion in support of presidential programs mark a fundamental and problematic transformation of the executive. As Tulis has framed this idea, the Constitution of 1787 proscribed popular leadership; the "rhetorical presidency," born of the progressive leadership of Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson, prescribed it. This change has had a ...