Presidency

Interest in the American presidency has grown sharply since Donald Trump's election. This collection offers the historical and constitutional background needed to read the Trump years against the longer story of the office.

The contributors trace the constitutional presidency from the nation's founding to the present. They point to moments when the office could have taken other shapes, and they study the decisions of presidents that set the course of the country and the wider world.

The contributors are Bradley R. DeWees of the U.S. Air Force, Richard J. Ellis of Willamette University, Joel K. Goldstein of Saint Louis University, Andrew Rudalevige of Bowdoin College, Sean Theriault of the University of Texas at Austin, and scholars at the University of Virginia: Stefanie Georgakis Abbott, Jennifer Lawless, Sidney M. Milkis, Sairkrishna Bangalore Prakash and Russell L. Riley. Michael Nelson is credited as author.