Wildavsky demonstrates how various recent presidents have attempted to escapeor overcome their beleaguered status by such devices as focusing on only a fewissue... » 

Wildavsky demonstrates how various recent presidents have attempted to escapeor overcome their beleaguered status by such devices as focusing on only a fewissues or shedding responsibility or blame to other actors or treatingpolicy problems as if they were essentially administrative in nature. The bookanalyes the wide divergence on public policy among Democratic and Republicanactivists and assesses the efforts of presidents from Nixon through Bush tocope at times successfully often not with these divisions. «