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Author Healy, Gene, 1970-

Title The cult of the presidency : America's dangerous devotion to executive power / Gene Healy.

Imprint Washington, D.C. : Cato Institute, c2008.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 3rd Floor Stacks  352.23 H349c 2008    ---  Available
Description viii, 367 p. ; 24 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. 299-356) and index.
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.
Subject Presidents -- United States.
Executive power -- United States.
Executive-legislative relations -- United States.
United States -- Politics and government -- 2001-
Added Author Cato Institute.
ISBN 1933995157 (alk. paper)
9781933995151 (alk. paper)
Standard No. NLGGC 310189721

 
    
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