Table of Contents:
  • The Progressive era and the presidency
  • The political education of Theodore Roosevelt: partisan loyalty, reform, and the politics of self-display
  • Constructing leadership to make history: anti-trust and the Navy
  • The political education of William Howard Taft: toward a brilliant career
  • Improvising for continuity: the tariff and the blow-up at interior
  • The political education of Woodrow Wilson: interpretive leadership and expediency
  • A parliamentary presidency: the tariff, bank reform, and anti-trust
  • The Progressive presidents and the modern presidency.