The Cult of the Presidency: America's Dangerous Devotion to Executive Power by Gene Healy
Cato Institute | April 2, 2008 | English | ISBN: 1933995157 | 264 pages | PDF | 2 MB
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.