New Directions in the American Presidency takes a current look at the various issues facing the presidency and provides a "state of the art" overview of current trends in the field of presidency research. "New Directions in the American Presidency is an outstanding contribution to presidency studies. Each chapter succinctly reviews an important area of presidential research while providing insights from that work on recent presidents. This will be excellent for course use as well as a valuable reference volume."-Peri E. Arnold, University of Notre Dame "In this impressive new book, Lori Cox Han delivers a comprehensive overview of the modern presidency from an impressive array of presidential scholars. This book will no doubt become required reading for those who teach the presidency."-Victoria H. Allen, CUNY, Queens College "In this highly salient text, Lori Cox Han has pulled together some of the leading scholars in the various subfields of Presidency research and situated their contributions in the context of major debates in the discipline. The result is an engaging and comprehensive book that will appeal to graduate as well as undergraduate students of the Presidency."-Nancy Baker, New Mexico State University "New Directions in the American Presidency brings together an accomplished set of scholars who use their experience as teachers and their vast knowledge of the subject to produce an accessible, interesting and current volume. New Directions is an excellent read for anyone interested in the evolution and current trends in the American Presidency. It will make an outstanding book for undergraduate and graduate courses."-Wayne Steger, DePaul University "New Directions in the American Presidency is written in a manner that is accessible to an undergraduate audience in an introductory course on the US presidency as well as to graduate students and seasoned scholars in the field."-A.L. Warber, Choice, September 2011