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Article: The Modern American Presidency.(Book Review)
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- Presidential Studies Quarterly
- Article date:
- March 1, 2004
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The Modern American Presidency. By Lewis L. Gould. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2003. xv, 301 pp.
When did the "modern presidency" begin? And of what does it consist? Lewis L. Gould, professor emeritus of history at the University of Texas, begins by identifying its principal components as "a significant increase in the size of the White House staff, a chief of staff to manage the expanded personnel, bureaucratic procedures to handle the interactions with the press, formalized relations with Congress through a White House office, greater power for the president as commander in chief, expanded travel in and out of the United States to build political ...