The Presidency and Domestic Policy: Comparing Leadership Styles, FDR to Clinton. By William W. Lammers and Michael A. Genovese. Washington, DC: CQ Press, 2000. 383p. $28.95 paper

Can presidency research do more than probe idiosyncratic cases? Our knowledge of the American presidency and the status of presidency studies in political science both hang on the answer to that question. Indeed, the current research agenda in this field exhibits a confidence that its findings are amenable to generalization and deserve the discipline's ap- probation.