Presidential Continuity and the Nuclear Age
Buch, Englisch, 333 Seiten, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 210 mm, Gewicht: 456 g
ISBN: 978-3-032-02477-0
Verlag: Springer
Drawing on unmined archives and original interviews, Rebecca Lubot tells the story of how US lawmakers grappled with issues over presidential succession and inability and vice-presidential vacancy and ultimately ratified the Twenty-Fifth Amendment. She argues that nuclear anxiety played a crucial role in the development of the amendment and its aftereffects, showing how politics and culture reflected this anxiety, and multiple administrations intensified it. She also offers solutions to the amendment’s gaps. As the threat of accident, miscalculation, or madness looms, never has a book on the intersection of presidential continuity and the nuclear age been more necessary.
Zielgruppe
Popular/general
Autoren/Hrsg.
Fachgebiete
- Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie
- Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte: Ereignisse und Themen
- Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte
Weitere Infos & Material
CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION AN AMENDMENT AT THE CROSSROADS OF NUCLEAR POWER AND PRESIDENTIAL FALLIBILITY.- CHAPTER 2 TIME QUICKENS THE HISTORY OF SUDDEN SUCCESSIONS AND SUCCESSION SOLUTIONS PRIOR TO THE TWENTY-FIFTH AMENDMENT.- CHAPTER 3 THE NUCLEAR PARADOX POWER, FALLIBILITY, AND THE TWENTY-FIFTH AMENDMENT.- CHAPTER 4 INGRAINING ANXIETY: RATIFYING THE TWENTY-FIFTH AMENDMENT IN THE NUCLEAR AGE.- CHAPTER 5 A DR. STRANGELOVE SITUATION THE TWENTY FIFTH AMENDMENT IN PRACTICE.- CHAPTER 6 THE [DOOMSDAY] CLOCK TICKS THE TWENTY-FIFTH AMENDMENT ON THE PRECIPICE.- CHAPTER 7 CONCLUSION THE NEXT STAGES: NUCLEAR ANXIETY AND THE AMENDMENT.
