LEADER 04548nam 22005655 450 001 9911046547303321 005 20251121114903.0 010 $a3-032-02478-1 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-032-02478-7 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC32427262 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL32427262 035 $a(CKB)43675264200041 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-032-02478-7 035 $a(EXLCZ)9943675264200041 100 $a20251121d2025 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aKeeping a Finger on the Button $ePresidential Continuity and the Nuclear Age /$fby Rebecca C. Lubot 205 $a1st ed. 2025. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer Nature Switzerland :$cImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,$d2025. 215 $a1 online resource (385 pages) 225 1 $aPolitical Science and International Studies 311 08$a3-032-02477-3 327 $aCHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION AN AMENDMENT AT THE CROSSROADS OF NUCLEAR POWER AND PRESIDENTIAL FALLIBILITY -- CHAPTER 2 TIME QUICKENS THE HISTORY OF SUDDEN SUCCESSIONS AND SUCCESSION SOLUTIONS PRIOR TO THE TWENTY-FIFTH AMENDMENT -- CHAPTER 3 THE NUCLEAR PARADOX POWER, FALLIBILITY, AND THE TWENTY-FIFTH AMENDMENT -- CHAPTER 4 INGRAINING ANXIETY: RATIFYING THE TWENTY-FIFTH AMENDMENT IN THE NUCLEAR AGE -- CHAPTER 5 A DR. STRANGELOVE SITUATION THE TWENTY FIFTH AMENDMENT IN PRACTICE -- CHAPTER 6 THE [DOOMSDAY] CLOCK TICKS THE TWENTY-FIFTH AMENDMENT ON THE PRECIPICE -- CHAPTER 7 CONCLUSION THE NEXT STAGES: NUCLEAR ANXIETY AND THE AMENDMENT. 330 $aRebecca Lubot's book provides a vital understanding of the nation's anxieties around the most important presidential power of all?the unilateral launch of nuclear weapons. She provides valuable insight into the too-often-overlooked complexities of the 25th Amendment ?the nation's playbook of how Doomsday might someday unfold?while raising critical questions about its existing ambiguities that should worry America's policymakers. --Garrett Graff, Pulitzer Prize finalist for Watergate: A New History Keeping a Finger on the Button compellingly uncovers an underappreciated story about the Constitution and the presidency. Combining impressive research and sharp analysis, this is a timely and fascinating read. --John Rogan, Fordham Law School The Twenty-Fifth Amendment has once again returned to the center of our political debates. Rebecca Lubot has delivered an authoritative, original, detailed account of how this vital part of the Constitution came into being?and how it continues to play out in our politics today. Keeping a Finger on the Button sheds needed light on presidential power in an era of global tension and democratic crisis. -- David Greenberg, Pulitzer Prize finalist for John Lewis: A Life Drawing on unmined archives and original interviews, Rebecca Lubot tells the story of how US lawmakers grappled with issues over presidential succession and inability and vice-presidential vacancy and ultimately ratified the Twenty-Fifth Amendment. She argues that nuclear anxiety played a crucial role in the development of the amendment and its aftereffects, showing how politics and culture reflected this anxiety, and multiple administrations intensified it. She also offers solutions to the amendment?s gaps. As the threat of accident, miscalculation, or madness looms, never has a book on the intersection of presidential continuity and the nuclear age been more necessary. Rebecca C. Lubot is CEO and founder of Lubot Strategies. She earned her doctorate in US history from Rutgers University, a Master of Science in the theory and history of international relations from The London School of Economics, and a Bachelor of Arts in political science from Boston University. 410 0$aPolitical Science and International Studies 606 $aWorld politics 606 $aAmerica$xPolitics and government 606 $aUnited States$xHistory 606 $aPolitical History 606 $aAmerican Politics 606 $aUS History 615 0$aWorld politics. 615 0$aAmerica$xPolitics and government. 615 0$aUnited States$xHistory. 615 14$aPolitical History. 615 24$aAmerican Politics. 615 24$aUS History. 676 $a342.73062 700 $aLubot$b Rebecca C$01862510 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9911046547303321 996 $aKeeping a Finger on the Button$94468796 997 $aUNINA