Academic and teaching areas include
the presidency, political leadership,
American political theory, and
American political development. Books
include Pragmatic Illusions: The
Presidential Politics of John F.
Kennedy (1976), Icons of
Democracy: American Leaders
as Heroes, Aristocrats, Dissenters,
and Democrats (1993), The
Democratic Debate: An Introduction
to American Politics (with
Raymond Seidelman and Todd Swanstrom),
Second Edition (1998), Debating
Democracy: A Reader in American
Politics (with Seidelman and
Swanstrom), Second Edition (1999). He
recently published "From Midcentury
to Fin-de-Siecle: The Exhaustion
of the Presidential Image," Rhetoric
and Public Affairs, (Summer
1998) as well as "Moral Character
in the White House: From Republican
to Democratic," in Presidential
Studies Quarterly (Fall 1999).
He has a chapter, "Courting the
Public: Bill Clinton's Postmodern
Education," forthcoming in American
Politics After Clinton (University
of Pittsburgh Press). He is currently
working on a new book project on
the McGovern campaign and the transformation
of American liberalism.
