Bitter Harvest: FDR, Presidential Power and the Growth of the Presidential Branch

Bitter Harvest: FDR, Presidential Power and the Growth of the Presidential Branch
ISBN-10
0521481937
ISBN-13
9780521481939
Series
Bitter Harvest
Category
Political Science
Pages
284
Language
English
Published
1996-12-28
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Author
Matthew J. Dickinson

Description

This book argues that modern presidents could learn much from Franklin Roosevelt's method of organizing his presidency. Roosevelt consciously avoided a large, functionally specialized White House bureaucracy. Instead, he developed staff agencies composed mostly of civil servants and personally managed them using competitive administrative practices. Matthew Dickinson is the first scholar to reconstruct the methods FDR used and his research suggests modern presidents could benefit greatly by studying them.

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