James J. Duderstadt, Daniel E. Atkins, Douglas van Houweling

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James J. Duderstadt, Daniel E. Atkins, Douglas van Houweling Inside the Politics of the George H. W. Bush White House

Leslie D. Feldman, ed., Rosanna Perotti

ISBN: 0-313-31684-8

ISBN-13: 978-0-313-31684-5

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536 pages

Praeger Publishers

Publication: 12/30/2002

List Price: $119.95 (UK Sterling Price: £82.95)

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Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4

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Series Title: Contributions in Political Science

Description: This collection examines the political themes and strategies utilized by candidate Bush in 1988 and President Bush in 1992, as told by the actual players as well as presidential and political scholars. Also considered are the role of the Vice President, the Cabinet, relations with Congress and the Supreme Court, the presidency and the media, and the role of the First Lady.

This volume focuses on the political world inside the Bush White House. Domestic political actors and institutions such as the vice president, chief of staff, Congress, and the Supreme Court all interact to create a president's political world. In George Bush's inaugural speech he spoke of the keys to success, saying these ideas are timeless: duty, sacrifice, commitment. These themes are seen by many of the writers in the collection as characterizing the political world of George Bush.

Equal consideration is given to the political themes and strategies utilized by candidate Bush in 1988 and President Bush in 1992. Also considered are the role of the Vice President, the Cabinet, relations with Congress and the Supreme Court, the presidency and the media, and the role of the First Lady. Essential reading for scholars and other researchers of the Bush presidency and American history of the late 1980s.

Table of Contents:

Introduction
Elections of 1988 and 1992
An Analysis of George Bush's 1988 and 1992 Campaign Advertising: Revisiting the Definition of a President Candidate by Lynda Lee Kaid, Karen Lane DeRose, and John C. Tedesco
Personality Profiles of the 1992 Presidential Candidates as Derived from their Speech Patterns by Walter Weintraub and S. Michael Plaut
The Vice Presidency of Dan Quayle
Introduction by George G. Dempster
The Honorable Dan Quayle
White House Staff and Cabinet Operations
The Domestic Policy Vicar: John Sununu as White House Chief of Staff by David B. Cohen
"Government Service is a Noble Calling": President Bush and the U.S. Civil Service by Robert Anthony Maranto
George Bush's People in Washington--Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Respect (If Not Love) the Government by Judith E. Michaels
The Inner Dynamics of the Bush White House
Divided Government: Relations with Congress
George Bush and the Public Presidency: The Limits of Legislative Leadership in Divided Government by Richard S. Conley
The Bush Administration's Approach to Separation of Power: An Invitation to Struggle by Nancy Kassop
The Veto King: The "Dr. No" Presidency of George Bush by Robert J. Spitzer
The Courts: Appointments, Performance, and Legacy
Pyrrhic Politics? President Bush and the Nomination of Clarence Thomas by Johna Massaro
The Rhetoric of the Presidency
Presidential Campaign Rhetoric in 1988: Its Consequences for the Bush Administration's Performance in Office and the Election of 1992 by Jean-Philippe Faletta
"Once more unto the breach, dear friends": War in the Persian Gulf as a Rhetorical System by John Kares Smith
The Media and Public Opinion
Public Opinion Polls and the Bush Presidency by George C. Edwards III
In Reagan's Shadow: Bush and the Media by Mark J. Rozell
The Role of the First Lady
Barbara Bush at Wellesley and the Republican National Convention: Defining Moments in the Life of the First Lady by Myra G. Gutin
"Half Eleanor-Half Bess": Barbara Bush as Copresident by Gil Troy
Index

About the Author: LESLIE D. FELDMAN is Associate Professor of Political Science at Hofstra University. Her main research interest is political theory, and she has written on various aspects of freedom and the presidency. Among her earlier publications is Freedom as Motion.

ROSANNA PEROTTI is Associate Professor of Political Science at Hofstra University. Her articles on immigration policy have appeared in International Migration Review and Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science.

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