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CONTENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- LIFE, LIBERTY, AND THE PURSUIT OF EXCESS -- THE UNSETTLING OF AMERICA -- AMERICA AND MULTICULTURALISM -- ALLIES OR ENEMIES? -- RUNNING SCARED -- COPING WITH HYPERDEMOCRACY AND HYPERCOMMUNICATIONS -- BEING PRESIDENT WHEN ANYTHING GOES -- SEEKING EQUILIBRIUM AND A CENTER THAT HOLDS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- WORKS CITED

Cover -- Statecraft and Stagecraft -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Foreword to the 2016 Printing -- Preface -- 1 Smokeless Politics -- 2 Image-Making and Anti-Image Journalism -- 3 The Bully Pulpit at Center Stage -- 4 The Momentary Majority -- 5 Cyclops or Big Bird? -- 6 Temptations of Technology -- Postscript: The Theater of War, The War as Theater, and Other Matters -- Notes -- Acknowledgments and Annotations

Front Cover -- Half-Title Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table Of Contents -- Foreword to the 2017 Edition -- Acknowledgments -- Editor's Introduction -- Author's Prologue -- PART I ASPECTS OF THE PRESIDENCY AND SOME ASSESSMENTS -- Foreword -- The Style and Genius of American Politics -- Presidency and Demos -- Presidential Leadership in the New America -- Wounded Titans -- The Shaping of American Presidents -- Eros and Power -- Desire and Power in the White House -- The Ardors and Tribulations of the Journey of Liberalism -- PART II A GALLERY OF PRESIDENTS -- Foreword -- Thomas Jefferson: America's Philosopher-King -- Abraham Lincoln: From the People, For the People -- Franklin D. Roosevelt: The Flawed Paradigm -- Harry S Truman: The Plutarchian President -- Richard Nixon: The Torturous Descent from Olympus -- Ronald Reagan: Commander of a Counterrevolution -- PART III ELECTING A PRESIDENT -- Foreword -- 1940: Roosevelt vs. Willkie -- 1944: Roosevelt vs. Dewey -- 1948: Truman vs. Dewey -- 1952: Eisenhower vs. Stevenson -- 1956: Eisenhower vs. Stevenson -- 1960: Kennedy vs. Nixon -- 1964: Johnson vs. Goldwater -- 1968: Nixon vs. Humphrey -- 1972: Nixon vs. McGovern -- 1976: Carter vs. Ford -- 1980: Reagan vs. Carter -- 1984: Reagan vs. Mondale -- 1988: Bush vs. Dukakis -- 1992: Clinton vs. Bush -- President Hunting in an Electronic Wonderland -- Coda: The Last Column