Table of Contents

Introduction
George Washington, Power Politics, and the Preamble
Thomas Jefferson and the Paradox of Power
Andrew Jackson: Personal Insecurity, Political Power, and the Preamble
Abraham Lincoln: Reason, Power, and the Preamble
Woodrow Wilson: Political Power Broker and the Preamble
Franklin Delano Roosevelt: Political Power, the Market System, and the Preamble
Harry S. Truman: Power, the American Mission, and the Preamble
Epilogue
Index

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Uses the Preamble of the Constitution to define a conceptual framework for studying long-term continuity and change in the presidency and in America.

About the Author

ROBERT M. SAUNDERS has a Ph.D. from the University of Virginia. He has taught at universities in the United States, Singapore, the Czech Republic, and Hong Kong where he is currently a visiting Fulbright Scholar. He has published articles in numerous scholarly journals. A specialist in late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, he has published a book on Woodrow Wilson entitled In Search of Woodrow Wilson (Greenwood, 1998).