Jeffrey J. Volle is an independent scholar and author of four previous books: The Political Legacies of Barry Goldwater and George McGovern—Shifting Party Paradigms, Clinton/Gore: Victory from a Shadow Box, Twenty-Five Years of GOP Presidential Nominations: Threading the Needle, and Donald Trump and the Know-nothing Movement: Understanding the 2016 US Election.

“Jeffrey J. Volle has written a masterful guide to the presidential politics of the last five decades. Students of the presidency will find themselves turning to this volume again and again for its insightful treatment of the major episodes that have defined the office over the last half century. Recounting the stories of this period could be a long, dry slog but Volle is too fine a storyteller to let his material suffer that fate. Instead, Volle gives us a narrative with all the color and intrigue this crucial period deserves. Volle’s writing is so engaging that he will leave no student, no matter how novice, behind; his research is so thorough that he will leave no scholar, no matter how accomplished, without food for thought.”—Neil Kinkopf, Professor of Constitutional Law, Georgia State University, and author (with Peter Shane and Harold Bruff) of Separation of Powers Law (4th ed. 2018)

• List of Illustrations – Acknowledgments – List of Abbreviations – Introduction – Woodstock (Post-LBJ) – The Education of Ohio (Richard Nixon) – President Ford and Those Lonely Nights (Gerald Ford) – A New President in Town (Jimmy Carter) – Another Democrat Bit the Dust (Ronald Reagan) – Only Want to Be Like Bill (George H.W. Bush, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush & Barack Obama) – In the End, Are We All Not Just Everyday People? (Donald Trump) – Conclusions – Bibliography – Index.

Jeffrey J. Volle is an independent scholar and author of four previous books: The Political Legacies of Barry Goldwater and George McGovern—Shifting Party Paradigms, Clinton/Gore: Victory from a Shadow Box, Twenty-Five Years of GOP Presidential Nominations: Threading the Needle, and Donald Trump and the Know-nothing Movement: Understanding the 2016 US Election.

“Jeffrey J. Volle has written a masterful guide to the presidential politics of the last five decades. Students of the presidency will find themselves turning to this volume again and again for its insightful treatment of the major episodes that have defined the office over the last half century. Recounting the stories of this period could be a long, dry slog but Volle is too fine a storyteller to let his material suffer that fate. Instead, Volle gives us a narrative with all the color and intrigue this crucial period deserves. Volle’s writing is so engaging that he will leave no student, no matter how novice, behind; his research is so thorough that he will leave no scholar, no matter how accomplished, without food for thought.”—Neil Kinkopf, Professor of Constitutional Law, Georgia State University, and author (with Peter Shane and Harold Bruff) of Separation of Powers Law (4th ed. 2018)

• List of Illustrations – Acknowledgments – List of Abbreviations – Introduction – Woodstock (Post-LBJ) – The Education of Ohio (Richard Nixon) – President Ford and Those Lonely Nights (Gerald Ford) – A New President in Town (Jimmy Carter) – Another Democrat Bit the Dust (Ronald Reagan) – Only Want to Be Like Bill (George H.W. Bush, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush & Barack Obama) – In the End, Are We All Not Just Everyday People? (Donald Trump) – Conclusions – Bibliography – Index.