William G. Howell is the Sydney Stein Professor in American Politics at the University of Chicago, where he is director of the Center for Effective Government and cohost of Not Another Politics Podcast. He has taught courses on the American presidency for more than twenty years, and his many books include Presidents, Populism, and the Crisis of Democracy; The Wartime President; and Power without Persuasion (Princeton).

"A valuable reference for anyone interested in the highest political office in the land. . . . this textbook offers a more incisive and balanced examination of this elected office."---Jerry D. Lenaburg, New York Journal of Books

William G. Howell is the Sydney Stein Professor in American Politics at the University of Chicago, where he is director of the Center for Effective Government and cohost of Not Another Politics Podcast. He has taught courses on the American presidency for more than twenty years, and his many books include Presidents, Populism, and the Crisis of Democracy; The Wartime President; and Power without Persuasion (Princeton).

"A valuable reference for anyone interested in the highest political office in the land. . . . this textbook offers a more incisive and balanced examination of this elected office."---Jerry D. Lenaburg, New York Journal of Books

William G. Howell is the Sydney Stein Professor in American Politics at the University of Chicago, where he is director of the Center for Effective Government and cohost of Not Another Politics Podcast. He has taught courses on the American presidency for more than twenty years, and his many books include Presidents, Populism, and the Crisis of Democracy; The Wartime President; and Power without Persuasion (Princeton).

"A valuable reference for anyone interested in the highest political office in the land. . . . this textbook offers a more incisive and balanced examination of this elected office."---Jerry D. Lenaburg, New York Journal of Books