The Unsustainable Presidency, 2014
Clinton, Bush, Obama, and Beyond
The Evolving American Presidency Series

The Unsustainable Presidency develops a structural theory of the office by challenging and redefining the twin imperatives upon which the modern chief executive was constructed and by applying the theory to the three most recent presidents: Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, and Barack Obama.

Contents Preface 1. Theories of the American Presidency 2. Beyond Institutions-as-Structure: A Deeper Structural Perspective 3. Bill Clinton and the Neoliberal Presidency 4. The Conservative Mirage: George W. Bush and Empire Waning 5. Change You can Believe in? The Barack Obama Presidency 6. Toward a Deep Presidency: Coming to Terms with our Constitutional Catastrophe-in-Chief Endnotes Index

William F. Grover is Professor of Political Science at Saint Michael's College in Vermont, USA. He is the author of The President as Prisoner: A Structural Critique of the Carter and Reagan Years and co-editor of Voices of Dissent: Critical Readings in American Politics. He is a former American Political Science Association Congressional Fellow.

Joseph G. Peschek is Professor of Political Science at Hamline University in St. Paul, Minnesota, USA. He is the author of Policy-Planning Organizations: Elite Agendas and America's Rightward Turn and co-editor of Voices of Dissent: Critical Readings in American Politics. He is a former Editor of the journal, New Political Science.  In 2015, he received the Agnes Hulburd Conger Prize for his work in The Unsustainable Presidency.