Volume 39, Number 4 - October 2009

Announcements

Karen Hult Steps Down as Book Review Editor

The 2010 George C. Edwards III Dissertation Award

Articles

The Eagleton Affair: Thomas Eagleton, George McGovern, and the 1972 Vice Presidential Nomination - James N. Giglio

Checking Presidential Detention Power in the War on Terror: What Should We Expect from the Judiciary? - Darren A. Wheeler

Symposium: The Future of Presidential Studies

The Revolution in Presidential Studies - Terry M. Moe

TERRY M. MOE

Alternative Futures: Comment on Terry Moe's "The Revolution in Presidential Studies" - Jeffrey E. Cohen

We All Want a Revolution: Neustadt, New Institutionalism, and the Future of Presidency Research - Matthew J. Dickinson

Building Reliable Theories of the Presidency - Lawrence R. Jacobs

Thoughts on "The Revolution in Presidential Studies" - Kenneth R. Mayer

Does the Revolution in Presidential Studies Mean "Off With the President's Head"? - Bert A. Rockman

Mission Accomplished - Stephen Skowronek

Pontificating About Moe's Pontifications - B. Dan Wood

Transition Studies

The 2008-2009 Presidential Transition: Preparing Federal Agencies - Clay Johnson

The 2008-2009 Presidential Transition Through the Voices of Its Participants - Martha Joynt Kumar

Features

The Contemporary Presidency: The Political Utility of Empathy in Presidential Leadership - Colleen J. Shogan

The Law: Bush, Cheney, and the Separation of Powers: A Lasting Legal Legacy? - Gordon Silverstein

Polls and Elections: Preelection Poll Accuracy in the 2008 General Elections - Costas Panagopoulos

Controversy

The Rhetorical Presidency Today: How Does It Stand Up? - Mel Laracey

The Rhetorical Presidency: Still Standing Tall - David A. Crockett

Book Reviews

From the Primaries to the Polls: How to Repair America's Broken Presidential Nomination Process by Thomas Gangale - Wayne P. Steger

The Party Decides: Presidential Nominations Before and After Reform by Marty Cohen, David Karol, Hans Noel, and John Zaller - Holly Brasher

Attack Politics: Negativity in Presidential Campaigns Since 1960 by Emmett H. Buell, Jr., and Lee Sigelman - Todd L. Belt

Spinner in Chief: How Presidents Sell Their Policies and Themselves by Stephen J. Farnsworth - Charles Bierbauer

The Right Talk: How Conservatives Transformed the Great Society into the Economic Society by Mark A. Smith - Donald T. Critchlow

Saving the Constitution from Lawyers: How Legal Training and Law Reviews Distort Constitutional Meaning by Robert J. Spitzer - David Schultz

Power Play: The Bush Presidency and the Constitution by James P. Pfiffner - Artemus Ward

Apocalypse Management: Eisenhower and the Discourse of National Insecurity by Ira Chernus - T. Michael Ruddy

National Missile Defence and the Politics of U.S. Identity: A Poststructural Critique by Natalie Bormann - Laura Sjoberg

Intelligence and National Security Policymaking on Iraq: British and American Perspectives edited by James P. Pfiffner and Mark Phythian - David N. Edger

U.S. Presidents and Latin American Interventions: Pursuing Regime Change in the Cold War by Michael Grow - Gregory Weeks

Woodrow Wilson: Princeton to the Presidency by W. Barksdale Maynard - Brian J. Cook

Barbara Bush: Presidential Matriarch by Myra G. Gutin - Lisa M. Burns