President of the United States of America/Bibliography

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Primary Documents

• The Fifth Risk by Michael Lewis, 2018, W. W. Norton & Company, ISBN 978-1324002642 - strong coverage on the legal mandate for presidential candidates to hire a transition team in the 6 months before taking office so that they'll be ready to appoint 1400 federal officers (including 16 cabinet members). 1200 of these appointees are subject to approval by the U.S. Senate and are typically appointed and confirmed within the first three months of a new presidential administration.

Online Reference Sources

• The American Presidency Project at the University of California, Santa Barbara. http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/

• American President: An Online Reference Source, Miller Center of Public Affairs. http://millercenter.org/academic/americanpresident

Academic Treatments

• Ceaser, James W. Presidential Selection: Theory and Development. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1979.
• Cronin, Thomas E. and Michael A. Genovese. The Paradoxes of the American Presidency. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998.
• Genovese Michael A. Memo to a New President: The Art and Science of Presidential Leadership. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007.
• Milkis, Sidney M. and Michael Nelson. The American Presidency: Origins and Development, 5th edition. Washington, DC: CQ Press, 2007.
• Neustadt, Richard. Presidential Power: The Politics of Leadership. New York: Wiley, 1960.
• Schlesinger, Arthur M., Jr. The Imperial Presidency. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1973.
• Skowronek, Stephen. The Politics Presidents Make: Leadership from John Adams to Bill Clinton. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1997.