The Return of the Imperial Presidency and the Subversion of American Democracy
by
Charlie Savage
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2007
In 1789, the Founding Fathers came up with a system of checks and balances to keep kingly powers out of the hands of American presidents. But in the 1970s and '80s, a faction of Republican loyalists, outraged by the fall of the imperial presidency after Watergate and the Vietnam War, abandoned conservatives'...