American presidents and the presidency

Traces the debates over the Federalist and Republican approaches of the Founding Fathers; the fissures in the Federalist period; the intrusion of populism in the campaign of Andrew Jackson; the significance of popular versus electoral college votes; Woodrow Wilson's divisive relationship with Congress; F.D.R.'s expansion of presidential power; and McCarthyism and the crosscurrent of the postwar era. Examines Richard Nixon and the Watergate debacle.