Nicole L. Anslover is Associate Professor of History at Indiana University Northwest, USA. She is an expert on 20th-century U.S. history, diplomatic history, political history, and the modern American presidency in particular.

"Scholars have much to learn from Anslover’s outstanding analysis of the transfer of power—and not just about that specific subject, but about the presidency and political leadership, more broadly. This is an eminently readable, engrossing account of decades of presidential history, giving valuable insight into the foreign policies of numerous administrations and the people at the center of them...As Anslover notes, there is more work to be done in this area. Readers cannot help but come away convinced of that, and hopeful that such work will measure up to this first-rate piece of presidential scholarship."Christopher J. Devine, Congress & the Presidency, 51:1, 103-104

• 0.Introduction. 1.Roosevelt to Truman: The Beginning of the Superpower Era. 2.Truman to Eisenhower: Harry Dislikes Ike and his Foreign Policy Rhetoric. 3.Eisenhower to Kennedy: Quagmire of Vietnam. 4.Kennedy to Johnson: The Tragic Transition. 5.Johnson to Nixon: The Treacherous Transition. 6.Carter to Reagan: The Definitive End of Détente. 7.The Transition in the 21st Century. Afterword: The Big Lie

Nicole L. Anslover is Associate Professor of History at Indiana University Northwest, USA. She is an expert on 20th-century U.S. history, diplomatic history, political history, and the modern American presidency in particular.

"Scholars have much to learn from Anslover’s outstanding analysis of the transfer of power—and not just about that specific subject, but about the presidency and political leadership, more broadly. This is an eminently readable, engrossing account of decades of presidential history, giving valuable insight into the foreign policies of numerous administrations and the people at the center of them...As Anslover notes, there is more work to be done in this area. Readers cannot help but come away convinced of that, and hopeful that such work will measure up to this first-rate piece of presidential scholarship."Christopher J. Devine, Congress & the Presidency, 51:1, 103-104

• 0.Introduction. 1.Roosevelt to Truman: The Beginning of the Superpower Era. 2.Truman to Eisenhower: Harry Dislikes Ike and his Foreign Policy Rhetoric. 3.Eisenhower to Kennedy: Quagmire of Vietnam. 4.Kennedy to Johnson: The Tragic Transition. 5.Johnson to Nixon: The Treacherous Transition. 6.Carter to Reagan: The Definitive End of Détente. 7.The Transition in the 21st Century. Afterword: The Big Lie