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The cult of the presidency : America's dangerous devotion to executive power / Gene Healy.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Healy, Gene, 1970-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Presidents--United States.
- Presidents.
- Executive-legislative relations.
- United States.
- Executive power--United States.
- Executive power.
- Executive-legislative relations--United States.
- United States--Politics and government--2001-2009.
- Politics and government.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 367 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Washington, D.C. : Cato Institute, [2008]
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-356) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781933995151
- 1933995157
- OCLC:
- 212008528
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