In this book eminent constitutional scholar Michael Gerhardt tells the stories of thirteen presidents whom most Americans do not remember and scholars think had no constitutional impact, among them Chester Arthur, Martin Van Buren, and William Howard Taft. As Gerhardt shows, our forgotten presidents played crucial roles in laying some of the groundwork followed by Lincoln and other modern presidents, as well as providing examples for future lawmakers ofconstitutional choices to avoid.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
- Table of Contents
- Introduction
- Acknowledgments
- Table of Recurrent Themes
- Chapter 1: Martin Van Buren
- Chapter 2: William Henry Harrison
- Chapter 3: John Tyler
- Chapter 4: Zachary Taylor
- Chapter 5: Millard Fillmore
- Chapter 6: Franklin Pierce
- Chapter 7: Chester Arthur
- Chapter 8: Grover Cleveland
- Chapter 9: Benjamin Harrison
- Chapter 10: Grover Cleveland
- Chapter 11: William Howard Taft
- Chapter 12: Calvin Coolidge
- Chapter 13: Jimmy Carter
- Conclusion
- Bibliographical Essay
- Appendix
- End Notes
- Index
