Between Guns and Butter: The Modern Presidency and the Politics of Warfare and Welfare

An illuminating study of how foreign and domestic policies have reinforced each other in post–New Deal presidencies.

Studies of presidential leadership tend to separate foreign and domestic policymaking as discrete avenues of inquiry, both empirically and analytically. This “two presidencies” syndrome has especially afflicted the study of the modern presidency. In Between Guns and Butter, Jeremy Strickler breaks this mold and simultaneously examines two significant developments that have sha...