| Contents |
A crisis of his own contrivance : Andrew Jackson's break with John C. Calhoun / Daniel Feller -- "I am president" : John Tyler, presidential succession, the crisis of legitimacy -- And the defense of presidential power / Aaron Scott Crawford -- Personal loss and Franklin Pierce's presidency / Michael Holt -- Abraham Lincoln and the death of his son Willie / Michael Burlingame -- "One long wilderness of despair" : Woodrow Wilson's stroke and the League of Nations / Thomas J. Knock -- Calvin Coolidge : "when he went the power and the glory of the presidency went with him" / Amity Shlaes -- The splendid deception of "Doctor" Roosevelt / Frank Costigliola -- The Kennedy family through sickness and death / David Nasaw -- The politics of the personal : Lyndon Johnson at home and abroad / Randall B. Woods -- A depressed and self-destructive president : Richard Nixon in the White House / Jeremi Suri -- Governing during a time of crisis : the Reagan presidency / Kiron K. Skinner -- The Clintons : the politics of the personal / William Chafe. |
| General note | Includes index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Source of description | Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed. |
| Issued in other form | Print version: When life strikes the president New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2017 9780190650759 |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2017000855 |
| ISBN | 9780190650766 (Updf) |
| ISBN | 9780190650773 (Epub) |
