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To authenticate to the full-text of this article, please visit this link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1542-734X.2010.00732.x Byline: Max J. Skidmore (1) Author Affiliation: (1)University of Missouri-Kansas City

ABSTRACT When Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Medicare Act into law, it was the culmination of actions by numerous presidents, including the two Roosevelts, Truman, and Kennedy. Even Dwight Eisenhower's [...]

ABSTRACT Until recently, the consensus has been that Grant, so brilliant in warfare, was a failure as president. 'Hopelessly naive,' 'passive,' 'subservient to Congress,' are frequent descriptions. Recent scholarship shows [...]

ABSTRACT Abraham Lincoln's legacy has endured efforts by both southern apologists and those seeking to make him more myth than man. Periodically, it benefits us to revisit Lincoln's life and [...]

ABSTRACT There has been little attention to the careers of former presidents, yet they have exercised considerable influence. Their post-presidential careers tend to fall within one or more rather distinct [...]

ABSTRACT Rankings of the presidents remain a popular, if problematic, component of presidential scholarship. An interesting case study in presidential reputations is provided in Theodore Roosevelt, whose image (and ranking) [...]

To authenticate to the full-text of this article, please visit this link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1542-734X.2009.00716_13.x Byline: Max J. Skidmore (1) Author Affiliation: (1)University of Missouri-Kansas City [c] 2009 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.

Abraham Lincoln and the Road to Emancipation: 1861-1865. By William K. Klingaman. New York: Viking, 2001, 344 pages, $25.95. Klingaman has added to the voluminous literature on Lincoln, recounting familiar [...]