Reviews
Highly recommended. All readership levels.
This book is highly recommended for the valuable data and the dissusions regarding the preperation and fulfillment of this important change of national management.
The seminal book on presidential transition, Before the Oath will enhance the body of knowledge surrounding transitions and prove very helpful to future transition teams.
Martha Kumar has more inside White House experience and is better qualified to write this book than any other scholar. She has made herself a resource on presidential transitions, providing candidate transition teams from both parties historical and analytical material on transitions and White House organizations. The book's scope of analysis is comprehensive. Kumar provides an excellent developmental view of presidential transitions from legal, political, administrative, and legislative perspectives.
No one knows more about presidential transitions than Martha Kumar does. In Before the Oath, the lessons Kumar gleans from the Obama transition reflect her sensible, nuanced, and sophisticated understanding of politics. This volume is an essential contribution to the study of presidential transitions.
Book Details
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. A Time of Opportunity and Hazard
2. Transition Foundations
3. The Transition Out of Office
4. Coming into the Presidency
5. Transition Plans and Campaign Promises
6. The
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. A Time of Opportunity and Hazard
2. Transition Foundations
3. The Transition Out of Office
4. Coming into the Presidency
5. Transition Plans and Campaign Promises
6. The National Security Council Transition
7. Presidential Appointments
8. The 2008 Transition
Glossary of People, Terms, and Institutions
Notes
Works Cited
Index