The Cult of the Presidency America’s Dangerous Devotion to Executive Power 1st Edition by Gene Healy 1933995157 9781933995151

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ISBN 10: 1933995157 

ISBN 13: 9781933995151

Author: Gene Healy

The Bush years have justifiably given rise to fears of a new Imperial Presidency. Yet despite the controversy surrounding the administration’s expansive claims of executive power, both Left and Right agree on the boundless nature of presidential responsibility. The Imperial Presidency is the price we seem to be willingly and dangerously agreeable to pay the office the focus of our national hopes and dreams. Interweaving historical scholarship, legal analysis, and cultural commentary, The Cult of the Presidency argues that the Presidency needs to be reined in, its powers checked and supervised, and its wartime authority put back under the oversight of the Congress and the courts. Only then will we begin to return the Presidency to its proper constitutionally limited role.

Table of contents:

Our Chief Magistrate and His Powers
“Progress” and the Presidency
The Age of the Heroic Presidency
Hero Takes a Fall
Superman Returns
War President
Omnipotence and Impotence
Why the Worst Get on Top … and Get Worse
Toward Normalcy

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