Michael P. Riccards
Michael P. Riccards (born October 2, 1944 in Elizabeth, New Jersey) is an American political scientist, writer, administrator, and professor. Riccards has been the president of three American colleges and has written extensively on public policy, the American political process, the papacy as a leadership problem, and the history of the American presidency. His book The Ferocious Engine of Democracy was praised by Bill Clinton.[1] He was the founding executive director of the Hall Institute of Public Policy – New Jersey. He now is president of the American Public Policy Institute on YouTube.
Riccards grew up in New Jersey and received his bachelor's, master's, and Ph.D. in political science from
In 1976, at the age of 32, he was named the dean of the merged college of Arts and Sciences at the University of Massachusetts Boston. As an administrator, he increased the numbers of minority students in the arts and sciences, and helped create a minority pre-med program. Riccards created the first Ph.D. at UMB in biological sciences; UMass Boston now has 34 doctorates. Five years later, he became provost and academic vice president at Hunter College of the City University of New York. Riccards worked to re-establish sabbaticals for faculty, which had been abolished systemwide during the 1970s. He revamped the school-deaconal structure, and created the college's first doctoral programs. He also taught political science for three years. He cohosted the WUMB campus affairs weekly radio show "Backtalk".[2]
Riccards became president of
In 1995, Riccards became president of
After leaving Fitchburg State in 2002, Riccards became the first
After three years at the College Board, Riccards moved back to his native New Jersey and became the founding executive director of the
He published a volume of his collected plays, and one of them on Lincoln became a musical produced by Genevieve Fraser on behalf of the Drama Circle in Massachusetts (2012). He has written four volumes of fiction on Italian American life, later compressed into The Ordinary Duties of the Day and Growing Up Jersey, generally set in his hometown of Madison, NJ. He is also the author of books on papal leadership. One of his books on the early presidency was cited in an opinion by U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice William Rehnquist. Riccards was on the board of the Center for the Study of the Presidency and Congress for five years. In 2019, he co-authored Woodrow Wilson as Commander in Chief: The Presidency and the Great War. He currently is co-writing Party Politics in the Age of FDR: Making America a Global Power.
He is married and has three children and five grandchildren. His wife Barbara was a master English teacher in urban and rural high schools. His youngest daughter, Abigail, is a professional jazz singer in Chicago and his daughter Catherine was a corporate lawyer for Saks Fifth Avenue and is now with Barnes & Noble. His son, Patrick, is an education reform advocate and CEO of the Driving Force Institute, having formerly served as an aide to three U.S. senators and one U.S. representative. Dr. Riccards has won the Luigi Pirandello Award and is the recipient of an Honorary Doctor of Medicine from Tie-in University. He lives in Hamilton, NJ.
Bibliography
Books
- Riccards, Michael P. and Cheryl A. Flagg. (forthcoming) Party Politics in the Age of FDR: Making America a Global Superpower. Lexington Books.
- Riccards, Michael P. and Cheryl A. Flagg. (2019) Woodrow Wilson as Commander in Chief: The Presidency and the Great War. McFarland Publishing. ISBN 978-1-4766-7957-0
- Riccards, Michael P. (2015) A Hero of My Own Life: Living in Post-War America. CreateSpace. ISBN 978-1-51507-370-3
- Riccards, Michael P. (2012). Destiny’s Consul: America’s Ten Greatest Presidents. Rowman & Littlefield. ISBN 978-1-4422-1624-2
- Riccards, Michael P. (2012). Faith and Leadership: The Papacy and the Roman Catholic Church. Lexington Books, ISBN 978-0-7391-7132-5.
- Riccards, Michael P. (2010). The College Board and American Higher Education. Fairleigh Dickinson University Press. ISBN 978-0-8386-4261-0.
- Riccards, Michael P., ed. (2011). Into the New Millennium: New Jersey and the Nation. iUniverse.
- Riccards, Michael P., ed (2007) Reaction and Reform in New Jersey. Walsworth Publishers.
- Riccards, Michael P., ed (2006). The State of the Garden State. Walsworth Publishers.
- Riccards, Michael P. (2004). The Myth of American Mis-education. Global Publications, New York. ISBN 1-59267-039-3.
- Riccards, Michael P. (2003). The Ferocious Engine of Democracy, Updated: From Theodore Roosevelt through George W. Bush. Cooper Square Press, New York. ISBN 0-8154-1257-6.
- Riccards, Michael P. (2002). The Papacy and the End of Christendom: The Leadership Crises in the Church from 1500 to 1850 (Binghamton, N.Y.: Global Publications, Binghamton, NY. ISBN 978-0-9724918-1-5.
- Riccards, Michael P. (2001). The Odes of DiMaggio: Sports, Myth, and Manhood in Contemporary America. Global Publications, Binghamton, NY. ISBN 978-1-4010-1406-3
- Riccards, Michael P. (1998). The Presidency and the Middle Kingdom: China, the United States and Executive Leadership. Lexington Books, Lanham, MD. ISBN 0-7391-0129-3.
- Riccards, Michael P. (1998). Vicars of Christ: Faith, Leadership, and the Papacy in Modern Times. Crossroad Publishing Company, New York. ISBN 0-8245-1694-X.
- Riccards, Michael P. (1995). The Ferocious Engine of Democracy: From Origins to William McKinley. Madison Books. ISBN 1-56833-041-3.
- Riccards, Michael P. (1987). A republic, if you can keep it: the foundation of the American presidency, 1700-1800. Greenwood Press, New York. ISBN 0-313-25462-1.
- Riccards, Michael P. (1973). The Making of the American Citizenry: An Introduction to Political Socialization. Chandler Publishing Company, San Francisco. ISBN 0-8102-0471-1.
- Byron W. Daynes, Byron W., Pederson, William D., and Riccards, Michael P. (eds.) (1998). The New Deal and public policy. St. Martin's Press, New York. ISBN 0-312-17540-X.
Articles, papers, and opinions
- Riccards, Michael P. (2017) “Private Emotions on the Public State; The Case of Envy and the American Presidency.” Public Voices, 3.
- Riccards, Michael P. (2007-09-20). "A Report on Education - 2006" (PDF). Hall Institute of Public Policy.
- Riccards, Michael P. (2006-12-04). "The Myth of American Mis-education" (PDF). Hall Institute of Public Policy.
- Riccards, Michael P. (2006) “Myth and Manhood: Ruth, DiMaggio and American Baseball,” in Baseball and the “Sultan of Swat”: Babe Ruth at 100. AMS Press. ISBN 978-0-4046-4257-0
- Flippo, Rona and Riccards, Michael P. (2000) “Initial Teacher Certification Testing in Massachusetts: A Case of the Tail Wagging the Dog.” Phi Delta Kappan, 82 (September), pp. 23–37.
- Riccards, Michael P. (1999) “Economics, Culture behind North-South Split,” September 4, 1999 and “Nation’s Bondage to Slavery Issue Led to Conflict,” September 11, 1999. The Washington Times.
- Riccards, Michael P. (1999) “Whitelaw Reid,” in American National Biography, ed. by John A. Garraty. Columbia University Press.
- Riccards, Michael P. (1997) “Lincoln and the Political Question: The Creation of the State of West Virginia. Presidential Studies Quarterly, XXVIII, pp. 549-64.
- Riccards, Michael P. (1997) “Rendezvous with Destiny: The Impact of Franklin D. Roosevelt on the Life and Presidency of Ronald Reagan,” in Ronald Reagan’s America, ed. by Eric J. Schmitz. (Greenwood Press).
- Riccards, Michael P. (1994) “Ty Cobb and the Great American Pastime. Elysian Fields, Summer.
- Riccards, Michael P. (1994). “Watchman on the Wall of Freedom: John F. Kennedy and His China Policy,” Asian Culture Quarterly, XXII, Spring, pp. 47–68.
- Riccards, Michael P. (1993) “Richard Nixon and the American Political Tradition,” Presidential Studies Quarterly, XXIII, Fall, pp. 739–46.
- Riccards, Michael P. (1989) “The Failure of Nerve: How the Liberals Killed Liberalism,” in Lyndon B. Johnson and the Uses of Power, ed. by Bernard J. Firestone and Robert Vogt. Greenwood Press. ISBN 978-0-3132-6395-8
- Riccards, Michael P. (1989) “James Otis,” in American Orators Before 1900: Critical Studies and Sources, ed. by Bernard K. Duffy and Halford Ross Ryan. Greenwood Press. ISBN 978-0-3132-5129-0
- Riccards, Michael P. (1988) “Dangerous Legacy: John F. Kennedy and the Cuban Missile Crisis,’” in The Presidency of John F. Kennedy, ed. by Paul F. Harper. (Greenwood).
- Riccards, Michael P. (1987) “Robert F. Kennedy,” in American orators of the Twentieth Century: Critical Studies and Sources, ed. by Bernard K. Duffy, Halford Ross. Greenwood Press. ISBN 978-0-3132-4843-6
- Riccards, Michael P. (1986) “Waging the Last War: Winston Churchill and the Presidential Imagination.” Presidential Studies Quarterly, XVI, Spring, pp. 213–23.
- Riccards, Michael P. (1981) “Rare Counsel: Kennedy, Johnson and the Civil Rights Bill of 1963.” Presidential Studies Quarterly, XI, Summer, pp. 395–98.
- Riccards, Michael P. (1981) “Philip Mazzei: The Jeffersonian as an Internationalist,” Italian Americana, VI, Spring/Summer, pp. 210–221.
- Riccards, Michael P. (1978) “The Structure of Religious Development, Lumen Vitae, pp. 97-123.
- Riccards, Michael. (1977) “The Presidency in Sickness and Health.” Presidential Studies Quarterly, VII, Summer, pp. 215–31. Results reported in Parade Magazine, February 13, 1977.
- Riccards, Michael P. (1977) “The Presidency and the Ratification Controversy.” Presidential Studies Quarterly, VII, Winter, pp. 37–46.
- Riccards, Michael P. (1976) “Six Fallacies of the Nixon-Kissinger Foreign Policy,” International Behavioral Scientist, VIII, September, pp. 16–25.
- Riccards, Michael P. (1973) “The Socialization of Civic Virtue,” in Reflections on American Political Thought: Readings from Past and Present, ed. by ISBN 978-0-8102-0469-0
- Riccards, Michael P. (1972) “Civics Books and Civic Virtue.” Child Study Journal, II, Winter, pp. 67–74.
- Riccards, Michael P. (1971) “Children and the Politics of Trust.” Child Study Journal, I, Summer, pp. 227–32.
- Riccards, Michael P. (1968) “Patriots and Plunders: The Confiscation of Loyalist Lands in New Jersey,” New Jersey History (formerly The Proceedings of the New Jersey Historical Society), LXXXVI, Spring, pp. 14–28.
See also
References
- ^ Publisher's synopsis: "I very much enjoyed reading The Ferocious Engine of Democracy, and I'm grateful to know of Riccards' perspective on the presidency.--Bill Clinton"
- ^ "WUMB "Backtalk"". University of Massachusetts at Boston, the Spectator. II (6): 1. February 19, 1979.
- Fitchburg State College. 2007. Archived from the originalon 2011-07-26. Retrieved 2007-10-26.
External links
- Hall Institute of Public Policy
- Michael P. Riccards' blog at PoliticsNJ.com
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