5 Best Books on the Presidency, selected by Michael A. Genovese

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• The American Presidency, by Clinton Rossiter. Harcourt Brace, 1956.
• The Imperial Presidency, by Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. Houghton Mifflin, 1973.
• Presidential Power: The Politics of Leadership, by Richard E. Neustadt. Wiley, 1960.
• Roosevelt: The Lion and the Fox and Roosevelt: The Soldier of Freedom, by James MacGregor Burns. Harcourt Brace, 1956; Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1970.
• A World of Trouble: The White House and the Middle East–From the Cold War to the War on Terror, by Patrick Tyler.  Farrar Straus and Giroux, 2010.

Michael A. Genovese, political science, Loyola Marymount University, [email protected]. Author of Presidential Prerogative: Imperial Power in an Age of Terror (Stanford University Press, 2011); Memo to a New President (Oxford University Press, 2008); and The Power of the American Presidency (Oxford University Press, 2000).