Bad for democracy : how the Presidency undermines the power of the people

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Label

Bad for democracy : how the Presidency undermines the power of the people

Title remainder

how the Presidency undermines the power of the people

Statement of responsibility

Dana D. Nelson

Creator

• Nelson, Dana D
• Nelson, Dana D

Subject

• Democracy -- United States
• Executive power -- United States
• Presidents -- United States

Language

eng

Summary

Throughout our history, Americans have been simultaneously inspired and seduced by the American presidency and concerned about the misuse of presidential power-from the time of Lincoln, Wilson, and FDR to Nixon, Reagan, and George W. Bush-as a grave threat to the United States. In Bad for Democracy, Dana D. Nelson goes beyond blaming particular presidents for jeopardizing the delicate balance of the Constitution to argue that it is the office of the presidency itself that endangers the great American experiment. The emotional impulse to see the president as a hero, Nelson contends, has ceded o

Cataloging source

CaPaEBR

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

LC call number

JK516

LC item number

.N35 2008eb

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

• standards specifications
• bibliography