Presidents have played a major role in shaping the Sunshine State, whether waging wars, protecting the environment, seeking votes, or just attracting media atte

Originally published in hardcover in 2011.

This volume examines the political ideas behind the construction of the presidency in the U.S. Constitution, as well as how these ideas were implemented by the

The author of the acclaimed biography of President James Polk, A Country of Vast Designs, offers a fresh, playful, and challenging way of playing “Rating the

As James Buchanan took office in 1857, the United States found itself at a crossroads. Dissolution of the Union had been averted and the Democratic Party mainta