New Directions in the American Presidency

Shorter and less expensive than competing books, attractive to students and allowing professors maximum flexibility in combining with other texts and course topics, including Congress & the Presidency.

Combines the best of a debate book with a comprehensive look at the system within which the presidency operates, engaging students with current issues while offering professors the basic systems framework from which to teach.

This book is part of a series carefully designed to provide a full complement of edited volumes for every major course in American government, allowing professors who prefer to teach with readings a complete and consistent set of books to choose from or to combine with others.• Includes timely new chapters on race and gender, unique among texts of this type.

New to the Third Edition:

Updated chapter on the 2020 presidential campaign and aftermath

Assessment of the Trump years: Presidential powers and management of executive branch, use of social media, relationship with Congress, relationship with political parties, public opinion, domestic and foreign policy, Supreme Court appointments

Two new chapters—unitary powers, and intersectionality and the presidency