39 research outputs found
Alvin S. Felzenberg, A Man and His Presidents: The Political Odyssey of William F. Buckley Jr.
No full textAlvin S. Felzenberg, A Man and His Presidents: The Political Odyssey of William F. Buckley Jr. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2017. Pp. 417. ISBN:9780300163841. Marcus Walsh-Führing In Alvin Felzenberg’s book, A Man and His Presidents: The Political Odyssey of William F. Buckley Jr., the author covers the political life of Buckley by focusing on his career as a political strategist and a major center-right political actor of his era. The book fills a gap in the literature on the develop..
John Prados, The Family Jewels: The CIA, Secrecy, and Presidential Power
No full textJohn Prados, The Family Jewels: The CIA, Secrecy, and Presidential Power Austin: University of Texas Press, 2016, pp. 388. ISBN: 9780292737624. Marcus Walsh-Führing John Prados’s book analyzes secrecy as it occurs in the relationship between the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and the Executive Branch and has arrived during times of political pressure in the United States from civil society and institutions on the nation state to provide more transparency of governmental activities. While ..
Daniel E. Ponder, Presidential Leverage: Presidents, Approval, and the American State
No full textDaniel E. Ponder, Presidential Leverage: Presidents, Approval, and the American State Stanford University Press, 2018. Pp. 222. ISBN: 9781503604063 Marcus Walsh-Führing In the United States, the polling of data has become the method for the analysis of the public’s political leverage in the constraining of government actions. Political scientists and pundits measure the success of presidents by analyzing public opinion of the administration and the trust in the government to demonstrate effec..
Mitchell A. Orenstein, The Lands in Between: Russia vs. the West and the New Politics of Hybrid War
No full textMitchell A. Orenstein, The Lands in Between: Russia vs. the West and the New Politics of Hybrid War Oxford University Press, 2019. Pp. 232. ISBN 978-190936143 Marcus Walsh-Führing On July 16, 2009, a group of twenty-two Central and Eastern European leaders and liberal intellectuals wrote “An Open Letter to the Obama Administration from Central and Eastern Europe,” addressing their grievances of Russia’s agenda to maintain its political influence in the region. As the Obama administration did..
William E. Leuchtenburg, The American President: From Teddy Roosevelt to Bill Clinton
No full textWilliam E. Leuchtenburg, The American President: From Teddy Roosevelt to Bill Clinton Oxford University Press, 2019. Pp. 886. ISBN 978-0-19-090702-0 Marcus Walsh-Führing As Harry Truman took office in the shadow of Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s (FDR) demise, the country was not willing to accept him as the new President. Uncertainty about his ability and expectations in the newly appointed President caused fear and discontent throughout America. The nation believed that a Kansas City politicia..
Peter Kivisto, The Trump Phenomenon: How the Politics of Populism Won in 2016
No full textPeter Kivisto, The Trump Phenomenon: How the Politics of Populism Won in 2016 United Kingdom: Emerald Publishing, 2017. Pp. 140. ISBN: 9781787143685 Marcus Walsh-Führing In his book, Peter Kivisto presents a comprehensive empirical and theoretical account of events leading up to the election of Donald J. Trump as 45th President of the United States. As such, The Trump Phenomenon: How the Politics of Populism Won in 2016 offers a basis for the discussion on the political status quo in the Un..
Michael L. Krenn, The History of United States Cultural Diplomacy: 1770 to the President Day
No full textMichael L. Krenn, The History of United States Cultural Diplomacy: 1770 to the President Day New York, Bloomsbury Academic, 2017. Pp. 198. ISBN: 9781472508607 Marcus Walsh-Führing During President Donald Trump’s first presidential term in office, the United States has faced numerous diplomatic crises whereby its status in foreign policy has been challenged due to the president’s undiplomatic exchanges with foreign leaders, and his controversial decisions regarding liberal order and trade rel..
Alfred Hornung, ed., Obama and Transnational American Studies
No full textAlfred Hornung, ed., Obama and Transnational American Studies Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, 2016. ISBN: 978-3-85253-6675-9 Marcus Walsh-Führing The book, Obama and Transnational American Studies, is a monograph series that touches upon an important discussion in the discipline. Its theme centers on the challenge of the traditional understanding of American Exceptionalism and firmly adds a transnational dimension to the current discourse on America’s role in the global context. With ..
Jessica Blatt, Race and the Making of American Political Science
No full textJessica Blatt, Race and the Making of American Political Science Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018. Pp.205. ISBN 9870812250046. Marcus Walsh-Führing While the concept of race has been comprehensively analyzed in History, Sociology, Anthropology, and the Humanities, it has had a complicated history in American Political Science. The current political tensions on the issue of race attest to the relevance in highlighting the social and political realties in society. Current ev..
Steven Sarson, Barack Obama: American Historian
No full textSteven Sarson, Barack Obama: American Historian London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2018. Pp. 357. ISBN 9781350032330. Marcus Walsh-Führing In the current bipartisan political climate, the ideological foundations of the United States government are under attack. Citizens across the country that support principles and laws in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution have been disenchanted by current events and yearn for a time where the country’s common creed is upheld: “We hold these tr..
