{"product_id":"bitter-harvest-fdr-presidential-power-and-the-growth-of-the-presidential-branch-paperback-9780521653954","title":"Bitter Harvest; FDR, Presidential Power and the Growth of the Presidential Branch (Paperback) 9780521653954","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eBitter Harvest\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eFDR, Presidential Power and the Growth of the Presidential Branch\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThis book outlines Franklin Roosevelt's White House staff organization.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eMatthew J. Dickinson (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780521653954, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback, published 13 February 1999\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e284 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.6 cm, 0.42 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"Dickinson has written a provocative volume whose prescriptions will engage political scientists and those analysis of Roosevelt's policy making will interest New Deal historians....this book is an impressive piece of scholarship thoroughly grounded in the political science secondary literature....this is a thought-provoking study of an important topic.\"   American Historical Review\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eBitter Harvest identifies the principles governing Franklin Roosevelt's development and use of a presidential staff system and offers a theory explaining why those principles proved so effective. Dickinson argues that presidents institutionalize staff to acquire the information and expertise necessary to better predict the likely impact their specific bargaining choices will have on the end results they desire. Once institutionalized, however, presidential staff must be managed. Roosevelt's use of competitive administrative techniques minimized his staff management costs, while his institutionalization of nonpartisan staff agencies provided him with needed information. Matthew Dickinson's research suggests that FDR's principles could be used today to manage the White House staff-dominated institutional presidency upon which most of his presidential successors have relied.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePart I. Presidential Power and Presidential Staff: Concepts and Controversies: Introduction: the fruits of his labor? FDR and the growth of the presidential branch\u003cbr\u003e 1. Bitter harvest: the presidential branch and the Iran-Contra Affair\u003cbr\u003e Part II. From Cabinet to Presidential Government, 1933–1939: 2. Creating the resource gap: bargaining costs and the first New Deal, 1933–1935\u003cbr\u003e 3. The President needs help: the Brownlow Committee frames the Roosevelt Response\u003cbr\u003e Part III. Testing the System: The War Years 1939–1945: 4. Preparing for war: economic mobilization\u003cbr\u003e 5. Managing war production\u003cbr\u003e 6. FDR and the rise of the National Security Bureaucracy\u003cbr\u003e 7. The Commander-in-Chief\u003cbr\u003e Part IV. Lessons and Considerations: 8. Competitive adhocracy: the principles and theoretical implications of FDR's staff use\u003cbr\u003e Epilogue: Roosevelt Redux?: a research agenda\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: 20th century history: c 1900  to c 2000 [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on 20th century history: c 1900  to c 2000\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%2220th%20century%20history:%20c%201900%20%20to%20c%202000%20%5BHBLW%5D%22\"\u003eHBLW\u003c\/a\u003e], History of the Americas [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on History of the Americas\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22History%20of%20the%20Americas%20%5BHBJK%5D%22\"\u003eHBJK\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45909118189848,"sku":"9780521653954","price":24.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9780521653954i_71c68bbc-2cc1-4cf0-90b0-5eeff10573c6.jpg?v=1691379566","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/bitter-harvest-fdr-presidential-power-and-the-growth-of-the-presidential-branch-paperback-9780521653954","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}