Charles W. Calhoun, in Presidential Studies Quarterly (Fall 1993), 208 E. 75th St., New York, N.Y. 10021.
Theodore Roosevelt was not the first president to see his office as a "bully pulpit." A dozen years before luin, Benjamin Harrison, elected in 1888, grasped the opportunities tl-ie presidency offered to preach to the nation. Indeed, Harkon's "exercise of the 'priestly func- tions' of the presidency," argues Call-ioun, a historian at East Carolina University, helped transform...