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Leadership Style, Presidential Success, and Political Time
This chapter takes up issue of Trump’s presidential style and demeanor and examines his two presidencies. One is the bombastic tabloid presidency...
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The Paradoxical Foundations of the Trump Presidency: Causes and Consequences
This chapter begins with the role of the presidency in American political life and how that has developed. It then turns to an analysis of the 2016...
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Feminisms in Brazil: Paths of Reinvention
Brazilian feminisms are discursive fields of agency/action, which go beyond the label of “feminism”. Black, poor, working, or peasant women were...
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Introduction
In the 1950s, the Theodore Roosevelt Memorial Association began an oral history project that interviewed family, friends, and contemporaries of the...
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An Introduction to American Presidential Candidate Spouses
This chapter underscores the role of presidential candidate spouses as important and unique political actors and as national role models. It...
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Building a Theory of Donald Trump and His Presidency
This chapter addresses the issues of what it takes, theoretically and evidentiarily, to develop a viable theory of the psychology of the Trump...
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The Future of Public Opinion and Presidential Candidate Spouses
This chapter summarizes the comprehensive set of findings on US public opinion toward presidential candidate spouses in the context of the central...
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A Brief History of Central Banks
This chapter summarises the history of central banking. Key events of the history of central banks include the establishment of the first...
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Prelude to a Unique Presidency: Preparation, Expectations, and Judgment
This chapter begins with an examination of the relevance of Trump’s CEO experience to his presidency. His was not a typical business career and that...
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Donald Trump’s Fight Club Presidency
This chapter examines Mr. Trump’s combativeness and fight club presidency. That is an important element in his psychology and performs important...
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Understanding Public Opinion Toward Presidential Candidate Spouses
This chapter develops the study’s key theoretical frameworks guiding the analysis of public perceptions toward candidate spouses—new traditionalism,...
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Introduction
Canada has a long and successful history of welcoming immigrants and resettling refugees, assisted by years of forward-looking policy and a unique...
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A History of Black American Feminism
Black power, the women’s movement, and feminist organizations like the National Black Feminist Organization (NBFO)welfare NBFO and and the Combahee...
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A Short History of Investigative Journalism
Investigative journalism is an activity that can be as blundering as a child’s game of blind man’s buff. Yet the movies glamorise its (mostly male)...
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The Unexpected Trump
Chapter 8 takes the examination of Trump’s real psychology into new territory. The narrow focus on Trump’s supposed psychological and political...
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The Road to the Election
This chapter outlines the background to the election. Starting by briefly sketching the history of the Irish party system, it surveys the main...
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Secondhand Memories: Murray T. Quigg
The Hagedorns interviewed Murray Quigg in an effort to learn more about his father Lemuel Quigg, a New York Republican and leading political...
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Our Place in Nature, Progress, and Racism
Numerous books have already been written on racism. Here, I will provide a novel way to understand the deeper basis of racism by emphasizing how...
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Historic Firsts: Public Opinion Toward Michelle Obama and Ann Romney in the 2012 Presidential Election
This chapter explores public perceptions of the 2012 presidential candidate spouses, Michelle Obama and Ann Romney. Although these two women had...
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Hillary Clinton Versus Barbara Bush: Tradition Meets Change in the 1992 Presidential Campaign
This chapter explores the presidential campaign of 1992, which broke new ground for candidate spouses, with Hillary Clinton challenging the...