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The book also covers a lot more than just his professional career as he openly discusses other areas of his life including his family and friends. The development of the american presidency pays great attention to that historical weight but is organized topically and conceptually with the constitutional origins and political development of the presidency its central focus. Politics, institutions, and public policy in america book series series editors. John robert greene is an american historian who is the paul j.
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