In the Public Domain: Presidents and the Challenges of Public Leadership

In the Public Domain......Page 4
Contents......Page 8
Preface......Page 10
1. Introduction: The President and the Public Revisited Doris A. Graber......Page 14
Part I. The Challenge of Perception......Page 24
2. Celebrity in Chief: The President As a Pop Culture Icon Michael A. Genovese......Page 26
3. Party Labels in Presidential Acceptance Addresses: 1948–2000 Sharon E. Jarvis and Emily Balanoff Jones......Page 42
4. What Gets Covered? How Media Coverage of Elite Debate Drives the Rally-’Round-the-Flag Phenomenon: 1979–1998 Matthew A. Baum and Tim Groeling......Page 62
Part II. The Challenge of Policy Management......Page 86
5. The White House Public Opinion Apparatus Meets the Anti-Polling President Diane J. Heith......Page 88
6. Presidential Leverage and the Presidential Agenda: 1967–1996 Daniel E. Ponder......Page 102
7. Second-Term Presidents: Free Birds or Lame Ducks? William Cunion......Page 126
Part III. The Challenge of Presentation......Page 152
8. Presidential Ideology and the Public Mood: 1956–1994 Jeffrey E. Cohen and John A. Hamman......Page 154
9. The Rose Garden Strategy Revisited: How Presidents Use Public Activities Lori Cox Han......Page 176
10.Doing Diversity across the Partisan Divide: George H.W. Bush, Bill Clinton, and American National Identity Mary E. Stuckey......Page 192
11.A President Transformed: Bush’s Pre- and Post-September 11 Rhetoric and Image Jeremy D. Mayer and Mark J. Rozell......Page 220
Part IV. The Challenge after the White House......Page 238
12.Life after the White House: The Public Post-Presidency and the Development of Presidential Legacies Lori Cox Han and Matthew J. Krov......Page 240
13.Not Going Public: George W. Bush and the Presidential Records Act Nancy Kassop......Page 268
Contributors......Page 292
B......Page 296
C......Page 297
E......Page 298
H......Page 299
K......Page 300
M......Page 301
O......Page 302
P......Page 303
S......Page 304
T......Page 305
Z......Page 306