1: "Greatness" Revisited: Evaluating the Performance of American Presidents in Terms of Cultural Dilemmas; 2: The Two Presidencies; 3: The Two Presidencies Thesis Revisited at a Time of Political Dissensus; 4: The Past and Future Presidency; 5: Putting the Presidency on Automatic Pilot; 6: The Prophylactic Presidency; 7: The Party of Government, the Party of Opposition, and the Party of Balance: An American View of the Consequences of the 1980 Election; 8: The Turtle Theory, or Why Has the Democratic Party Lost Five Out of the Last Six Presidential Elections, yet Retained Strong Control of the House, Won Majorities in the Senate, and Retained Three-Fifths of State Houses and Most Governorships?; 9: Richard Nixon, President of the United States; 10: System Is to Politics as Morality Is to Man: A Sermon on Watergate and the Nixon Presidency; 11: Jimmy Carter's Theory of Governing; 12: Reagan as a Political Strategist; 13: What the Hell Is Going On? Reagan, Iran, and the Presidency; 14: Presidential Succession and Disability: Policy Analysis for Unique Cases; 15: The Plebiscitary Presidency, or Politics without Intermediaries; 16: The Human Side of Government; 17: Making The Process Work: The Procedural Presidency of George Bush
