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The Presidents: The Transformation of the American Presidency from Theodore Roosevelt to George W. Bush
Contemporary Review, May, 2005
The Presidents: The Transformation of the American Presidency from Theodore Roosevelt to George W. Bush. Stephen Graubard. Allen Lane. [pounds sterling]30.00. xv + 928 pages. ISBN 0-713-99618-8. This was published last year in the U.S. as Command of Office. Prof. Graubard, who draws on personal interviews of those who served various presidents as well as printed material, devotes the first three chapters to an examination of the office and how it has changed, and the remaining eighteen to individual presidents.
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It was a period of 'major institutional change' or, better, 'a silent revolution' due in part to the men elected and in part to international pressures. Powers have expanded as have imperial pretensions more suited to a mass democracy with little education. The office open to men of moderate means is now confined to millionaires or those whose friends are millionaires. Moral and political restraints have 'atrophied'. Prof. Graubard is particularly concerned with the eighteen men's 'intellectual and political preparation' because it is the man who makes the office. When referring to the current terrorist threat, he writes of a situation 'where patriotism is imagined to be the American solution to a problem that calls for intelligence and invention'. (G.F.B.)
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