The Imperial Presidency

by Schlesinger, Arthur Meier, Jr.

• ISBN13: 9780618420018
• ISBN10: 0618420010
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-08-12
• Publisher: INGRAM

Summary

From two-time Pulitzer Prizewinning 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 "substantial scholarship written with lucidity, charm, and wit" (The New Yorker).

Author Biography

ARTHUR M. SCHLESINGER, JR., the author of sixteen books, was a renowned historian and social critic. He twice won the Pulitzer Prize, in 1946 for The Age of Jackson and in 1966 for A Thousand Days. He was also the winner of the National Book Award for both A Thousand Days and Robert Kennedy and His Times (1979). In 1998 he was awarded the prestigious National Humanities Medal.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. vi
Introduction to the Mariner Edition	p. ix
Foreword to the 1973 Edition	p. xxv
What the Founding Fathers Intended	p. 1
Where the Founding Fathers Disagreed	p. 13
The Rise of Presidential War	p. 35
Congress Makes a Comeback	p. 68
The Presidency Resurgent: The Second World War	p. 100
The Presidency Ascendant: Korea	p. 127
The Presidency Rampant: Vietnam	p. 177
The Revolutionary Presidency: Washington	p. 208
Democracy and Foreign Policy	p. 278
The Secrecy System	p. 331
The Future of the Presidency	p. 377
Epilogue: After the Imperial Presidency	p. 420
Notes	p. 501
Index	p. 551
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