Crucible : the President's first year / edited by Michael Nelson, Jeffrey L. Chidester, and Stefanie Georgakis Abbott.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

What time is it? tracking Trump in secular and political time / Stephen Skowronek -- Donald Trump's first year: decreasing influence without increasing effectiveness / Michael Nelson -- Setting the standard: FDR's extraordinary first year / Sidney M. Milkis -- The promise and peril of the first year: the value of studying history / H. W. Brands -- Lessons from presidential oral history / Michael Nelson -- Supreme Court appointments in the President's first year / Barbara A. Perry -- Presidential constraints: how the President is limited by structural and institutional realities / Daniel J. Galvin -- Harnessing the economy: lessons from eight first-year crises from Adams to Obama / Robert F. Bruner -- Dear Mr. or Madame president: a letter to the new president on your first year / Peter Wehner -- John F. Kennedy and the lessons of first-year stumbles / Marc Selverstone -- Ronald Reagan's dysfunctional first-year team-and how he fixed it / Hal Brands -- Hippocratic diplomacy: George H. W. Bush's first year / Jeffrey A. Engel -- It's not just the economy, stupid: Bill Clinton's distracted first-year foreign policy / Jeremi Suri -- Trust but clarify: George W. Bush's rivalry-ridden national security team / Melvyn P. Leffler -- Best practices: eight lessons for navigating national security / Michele A. Flournoy -- Policy engineering, not policy guesswork / Philip Zelikow -- Confronting international financial instability / Jeffry Frieden -- Be like Ike: Eisenhower and the interstate highway system / Peter Norton -- Prescription for success: enacting Medicare and Medicaid / Guian McKee -- Presidential precedents: recent approaches to fostering opportunity / Michael Nelson -- Creating a next-generation economy / Margaret O'Mara -- Centuries of cities: urban infrastructure and economic growth / Mason B. Williams -- Leading in the anthropocene / Willis Jenkins -- A Democratic opportunity agenda / William A. Galston -- A Republican opportunity agenda / Peter Wehner -- Reluctant reformer: Lyndon B. Johnson and immigration reform / Daniel Tichenor -- American Apartheid: why blacks are central to but excluded from America's identity / Orlando Patterson -- Obama's lessons: rethinking the President's approach to racial issues / Michael Eric Dyson -- Racial pioneer? new Presidents and racial dialogue / Douglas A. Blackmon -- Thomas Jefferson and the peaceful transfer of power / Alan Taylor -- Abraham Lincoln's worst first year / Gary W. Gallagher -- Why Presidents don't run the government-and why they need to / Elaine C. Kamarck -- Process with caution: the insufficiency of early executive action / Andrew Rudalevige -- Maximizing control: first-year Presidents and the appointment and agenda-setting powers / Patrick O'Brien -- The POTUS as CEO-tus: lessons that CEOs can teach new Presidents / Carolyn Dewar, Tom Dohrmann, Andrew Erdmann, Ryan Harper, and Kunal Modi -- Going local to break gridlock / Bruce Katz -- The hundred days myth / David Greenberg -- The not so bully pulpit / Jeff Shesol -- Reaching Americans where they live-on their smartphones / Mary Kate Cary -- Managing the President's public persona / Susan J. Douglas -- Communicating while governing / Anita Dunn.

"This volume collects brief essays by over forty scholars, political staffers, and others analyzing and offering advice for the president's first year in office"-- Provided by publisher.