Presidential Leadership in Feeble Times: Explaining Executive Power in the Gilded Age

by Taylor

Do presidents matter for America's economic performance? We tend to stereotype the Gilded Age presidents of the late nineteenth century as weak. We also assume that the American people were intellectually misguided about the economy and the government's role in it during this era. And we generally dismiss the Gilded Age macro-economy as boring--little interesting or important happened. Instead, the micro-economics of the business world was where the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0197750745
• ISBN13: 9780197750742
• Release Date: November 2023
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 608 Pages
• Weight: 2.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 2.6" x 6.7" x 8.8"