Charlie Savage: 2 books
Power Wars
The Relentless Rise of Presidential Authority and Secrecy
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2015
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Charlie Savage's penetrating investigation of the Obama presidency and the national security state
Barack Obama campaigned on changing George W. Bush's "global war on terror" but ended up entrenching extraordinary executive powers, from warrantless...
Takeover
The Return of the Imperial Presidency and the Subversion of American Democracy
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'...