The Imperial Presidency
by Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
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From two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., comes one of the most important and influential investigations of the American presidency. The Imperial Presidency traces the growth of presidential power over two centuries, from George Washington to George W. Bush, examining how it has both served and harmed the Constitution and what Americans can do about it in years to come. The book that gave the phrase "imperial presidency" to the language, this is a work of show more "substantial scholarship written with lucidity, charm, and wit" (The New Yorker). show lessTags
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An extremely interesting history of the evolution of the relative power and influence of the executive branch of the American government. Written shortly after the Nixon administration, and the book views it not as an aberration, but as a culmination of executive power, which has continued to expand beyond its original constitutional grounds.
Links accumulation of powers of foreign policy during war time (Civil War, WWI, WWII, Korea, and finally Vietnam) to later accumulation of domestic power - crucial.
One wonders what Schlesinger thought of the last few administrations. Need to acquire his diaries. He is an insightful thinker about the nature of power.
Links accumulation of powers of foreign policy during war time (Civil War, WWI, WWII, Korea, and finally Vietnam) to later accumulation of domestic power - crucial.
One wonders what Schlesinger thought of the last few administrations. Need to acquire his diaries. He is an insightful thinker about the nature of power.
This is a classic statement by a preeminent historian about the increase in unconstitutional power that presidents have accumulated.
EVEN FROM A LIBERAL ITS AN ENTHRALLING READ ABOUT THE HISTORY OF EXECUTIVE POWER AND ITS EXCESSES,,,REST IN PEACE DR. SCHLESINGER
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Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. is renowned as a historian, a public intellectual, & a political activist. He served as a special assistant to President John F. Kennedy; won two Pulitzer Prizes, in 1946 for "The Age of Jackson" & in 1966 for "A Thousand Days," & in 1998 was the recipient of the National Humanities Medal. He lives in New York City. show more (Publisher Provided) Arthur Meier Schlesinger, Jr., 1917 - 2007 U.S. historian Arthur Schlesinger was born in Columbus, Ohio in 1917 and was educated at Harvard University. Schlesinger was an associate professor of history at Harvard from 1946-1954 and professor from 1954-1961. He was a campaign staff member for the Democratic presidential candidates in 1952, 1956 and 1960. When John F. Kennedy took office after the 1960 campaign, he appointed Schlesinger special assistant. He resigned, in 1964, after Kennedy's assassination and then became professor of Humanities at the City University of New York in 1967. Schlesinger wrote an account of the Kennedy administration titled "A Thousand Days: John F. Kennedy in the White House" (1965), which won the Pulitzer Prize for a biography in 1966. He also wrote "The Age of Jackson" (1945), which won the Pulitzer Prize for history in 1946, "The Age of Roosevelt" (3 vol., 1957-60), "The Politics of Hope" (1963), "The Bitter Heritage" (1967), "The Imperial Presidency" (1973), "Robert Kennedy and His Times" (1978), and "The Cycles of American History" (1986). He died on February 28, 2007 at the age of 89 (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Original publication date
- 1973
- Dedication
- For Alexandra
- First words
- The place to begin is Philadelphia in the summer of 1787.
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)"There is no week nor day nor hour," wrote Walt Whitman, "when tyranny may not enter upon this country, if the people lose their supreme confidence in themselves, --- and lose their roughness and spirit of defiance --- Tyranny may always enter --- there is no charm, no bar against it --- the only bar against it is a large resolute breed of men."
- Canonical DDC/MDS
- 353.031309; 973.099
- Canonical LCC
- JK511
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- Genres
- Nonfiction, History, General Nonfiction, Politics and Government
- DDC/MDS
- 973.099 — History & geography History of North America United States United States Presidents--United States--collected biography
- LCC
- JK511 — Political Science Political institutions and public administration (United States) Political institutions and public administration United States Government. Public administration Executive branch
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- Reviews
- 5
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- Languages
- English, French
- Media
- Paper, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 9
- UPCs
- 1
- ASINs
- 12
