San Antonio College Library

Presidents spend millions of dollars on public opinion polling while in office. Critics often point to this polling as evidence that a?permanent campaign? has taken over the White House at the expense of traditional governance. But has presidential polling truly changed the shape of presidential leadership? Diane J. Heith examines the polling practices of six presidential administrations?those of Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan, Bush, and Clinton?dissecting...

Charles Lamb examines national fair housing policy from 1960 through 2000 in the context of the American presidency and the country's segregated suburban housing market.

"From Eisenhower's toppling of Arbenz in Guatemala in 1954 to Bush's overthrow of Noriega in Panama in 1989, Grow casts a close eye on eight major cases of U.S. intervention in the Western Hemisphere, offering fresh interpretations of why they occurred and what they signified." "Grow argues that it was not threats to U.S. national security or endangered economic interests that were decisive in prompting presidents to launch these interventions. Rather,...