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Title: The Two Presidencies: A Quarter Century Assessment by Steven Shull ISBN: 0-8304-1249-2 Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing Company Pub. Date: 01 March, 1991 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $36.95

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Summary: Critical & Fair Reassessment of Wildavsky
Comment: As editor, Dr. Steven Shull has compiled a handful of academic articles critically reassessing the original "Two Presidencies" thesis by Aaron Wildavsky. Along with various other scholars, Shull discusses the many difficulties with Wildavsky's 1966 analysis of presidential free-reign in foreign policy.

As the thesis has recieved much criticism of its historical period for analysis, Shull's scholars discuss the problems associated with the formulation of political theories during the early Cold War era. This was the period on which Wildavsky based his theory. Accordingly, Shull notes that his evaluation centered on the federal government during an international and militarily focused period when it would be much less likely to restrain presidential directorship than it might today. Appropriately then, Shull focuses much of the book's beginnings on the historical situations which led Wildavsky to--wrongly--make the absolute assumption of presidential supremacy in foreign policy initiatives. While Dr. Shull does recognize the utility and various strengths of the original thesis, his scholars continually reassert this new edition's main contention that Wildavsky was incorrect to assume that the presidency's domination in foreign policy would reign supreme over time.

Though not difficult to follow, the articles selected by Shull are geared more toward avid students of policy and government than for the occasional armchair scholar. In sum, this book provides an excellent foundation for research of the American Presidency and comprehensively evaluates the "Two Presidencies" thesis under a more modern historical context.