Honor and Loyalty: Inside the Politics of The George W. Bush White House

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This volume focuses on the political world inside the Bush White House. Domestic political actors and institutions such as the vice president, chief of staff, Congress, and the Supreme Court all interact to create a president's "political world." In George Bush's inaugural speech he spoke of the keys to success, saying "these ideas are timeless: duty, sacrifice, commitment." These themes are seen by many of the writers in the collection as characterizing the political world of George Bush. Equal consideration is given to the political themes and strategies utilized by candidate Bush in 1988 and President Bush in 1992. Also considered are the role of the Vice President, the Cabinet, relations with Congress and the Supreme Court, the presidency and the media, and the role of the First Lady. Essential reading for scholars and other researchers of the Bush presidency and American history of the late 1980s.

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Leslie D. Feldman is associate professor of political science at Hofstra University. Her main research interest is political theory, and she has written on various aspects of freedom and the presidency. Among her earlier publications is Freedom as Motion. Rosanna Perotti is associate professor of political science at Hofstra University. Her articles on immigration policy have appeared in International Migration Review and Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science.