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Focusing on the tension between elite and popular models of democracy, individuals and movements that made a difference, and recent events, THE DEMOCRATIC DEBATE makes American democracy become more relevant, compelling, and lively.

How much power does a president really have? Theories and arguments abound - pointlessly, Bruce Miroff says, if we don't understand the context in which presidents operate. Borrowing from Machiavelli, Miroff maps five fields of political struggle that presidents must traverse: media, economic interests, political coalitions, the politics of domestic policy, and the partisan politics of foreign policy.

In an era when American leadership "I seems sunk in petty power struggles and shallow media spectacles, some of our icons have much to teach us about the forms of leadership that can still speak to the democratic possibilities of the American people", writes Bruce Miroff. In Icons of Democracy, Miroff looks at how nine American leaders have either successfully encouraged or undermined citizens' participatory role in their democracy and helps u...

When George McGovern lost the 1972 presidential election, Richard Nixon's landslide victory buried more than an insurgent campaign. By tracing the transformation of American liberalism and sixties idealism from their political crash in 1972 to muddled centrism of twenty-first century, this book shows what the McGovern insurgency has to teach us.

How much power does a president really have? Theories and arguments abound. Borrowing from Machiavelli, Bruce Miroff maps five fields of political struggle that presidents must traverse to make any headway: media, powerful economic interests, political coalitions, the high-risk politics of domestic policy, and the partisan politics of foreign policy.

When George McGovern lost the 1972 presidential election, Richard Nixon's landslide victory buried more than an insurgent campaign. By tracing the transformation of American liberalism and sixties idealism from their political crash in 1972 to muddled centrism of twenty-first century, this book shows what the McGovern insurgency has to teach us.