April 11, 2016

Martha Joynt Kumar is a professor of political science at Towson University. She is the author of  Managing the President’s Message: The White House Communications Operation, winner of the American Political Science Association’s 2008 Richard E. Neustadt Best Book Award, and the coauthor of Portraying the President: The White House and the News Media. About Before the Oath: How George W. Bush and Barack Obama Managed a Transfer of Power It’s one of the hallmarks of American democracy: on inauguration day, the departing […]