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The cult of the presidency : America's dangerous devotion to executive power /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Healy, Gene, 1970-
Corporate Author: Cato Institute
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : Cato Institute, [2008]
Subjects:
Presidents > United States.
Executive power > United States.
Executive-legislative relations > United States.
United States > Politics and government > 2001-2009.
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.