Leading from the eye of the storm: Presidents and refoundings in American democracy

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This event is part of the Historical Presidency Series

Sidney Milkis is the White Burkett Miller Professor of Politics and faculty associate at the Miller Center. His books include: The President and the Parties: The Transformation of the American Party System Since the New Deal; Political Parties and Constitutional Government: Remaking American Democracy; Presidential Greatness, co-authored with Marc Landy; The American Presidency: Origins and Development, 1776-2011, 6th edition, co-authored with Michael Nelson; and Theodore Roosevelt, the Progressive Party, and the Transformation of American Democracy. He is the co-editor, with Jerome Mileur, of thee volumes on twentieth century political reform: Progressivism and the New Democracy; The New Deal and the Triumph of Liberalism; and The Great Society and the High Tide of Liberalism.