Crisis and Command: A History of Executive Power from George Washington to George W. Bush 978-1-60714-603-2, 9781607145554

SUMMARY: An American President faces war and finds himself hamstrung by a Congress that will not act. To protect nationa

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Crisis and Command: A History of Executive Power from George Washington to George W. Bush
978-1-60714-603-2, 9781607145554

This book is the first to undertake a detailed historical and legal examination of presidential power and the theory of

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To date, there are only a couple dozen or so books specifically about the Presidency of George W. Bush. Political operat

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A compendium of the highlights and lowlights from the careers of our 43 chief executives—from George Washington to Georg

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Although it lasted only a single term, the presidency of George H. W. Bush was an unusually eventful one, encompassing t

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Up-to-date, insightful take on modern American cinema’s relations with and influence on Reagan’s, Clinton’s and both Bus

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Grand strategy is one of the most widely used and abused concepts in the foreign policy lexicon. In this important book,

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Over the past quarter century, American liberals and conservatives alike have invoked memories of the 1960s to define th

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