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| Title | : | The Cult of the Presidency: America's Dangerous Devotion to Executive Power |
| Author | : | Gene Healy |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 367 pages |
| Published | : | April 1st 2008 by Cato Institute |
| Categories | : | Politics. History. Law. Nonfiction |
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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.Point Books As The Cult of the Presidency: America's Dangerous Devotion to Executive Power
| Original Title: | The Cult of the Presidency: America's Dangerous Devotion to Presidential Power |
| ISBN: | 1933995157 (ISBN13: 9781933995151) |
| Edition Language: | English |
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Ratings: 4.19 From 139 Users | 25 ReviewsWrite Up Out Of Books The Cult of the Presidency: America's Dangerous Devotion to Executive Power
George Will called it the "most significant public policy book this year," and he's not far wrong. For friends and fans of limited government, Mr. Healy's argument is time honored: the presidency as it stands today is unconstitutional, and it's our own damn fault.What Mr. Healy adds is a sardonic, and incisive post-holed history of the office. He breaks the presidency down into a few periods, and combines it with public opinion sentiments of the age. The result is an alarming history of theWhat a timely book in the age of Bush and Obama. How has the US gotten so far away from the Constitutional and limited government that it was originally founded? It would seem that the people of the US have cast aside many of its Constitutional protections from government in order to be protected and nursed by the government. At the same time, we have come to place now whereby we have given sole responsibility for our collective well being in the hands of one person and we demand that this
Gene Healy's newest book is The Cult of the Presidency: America's Dangerous Devotion to Executive Power. As senior editor at the Cato Institute, he is responsible for reviewing and editing Cato policy studies and other publications. His research interests include federalism, criminal justice, constitutional war powers, civil liberties, and the war on terror. From 1994 to 1996, Healy served as
Every four years, men and women with permanently-fixed smiles assure us that they will end corruption in Washington, get the economy moving, and end our trouble overseas, if only we will elect them President. The claims are bold who could budge the vast federal bureaucracy or find a solution to the hornets nest that is the middle east? Yet a third of the American public seems willing to believe these and greater claims, from across the political spectrum. Throughout the 20th century, the
Interesting Quotes:"John F. Kennedy...[and his] attorney general, brother Bobby, ordered wiretaps on New York Times and Newsweek reporters, along with various congressmen and lobbyists...During the 1964 contest, the Johnson administration also used the CIA to keep Goldwater campaign officials under surveillance and to procure advance copies of the candidate's speeches. And at Johnson's request, the FBI bugged Goldwater's campaign plane...[T]here was some truth to the conservative complain that
A useful and informative history of the Presidency. Healy makes the case that the office of the Presidency has been drifting from its intended role - that of an unglamorous executive with no lawmaking power - to its current role over the course of decades. Presidents may arrogate broad new powers in the face of crises, but these tend to be powers that Congress had largely ceded to them in the years prior.Formatting in the Kindle edition is a little weird, but still readable.
Excellent book showing how the office of the Presidency accumulated power and how the persons inhabiting that office abused those powers.
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