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Unmaking the presidency : Donald Trump's war on the world's most powerful office / Susan Hennessey and Benjamin Wittes.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hennessey, Susan, 1985- author.
- Wittes, Benjamin, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Trump, Donald, 1946-.
- Trump, Donald.
- Presidents--United States--Case studies.
- Presidents.
- Political leadership--United States--Case studies.
- Political leadership.
- Executive power.
- United States.
- Executive power--United States--Case studies.
- United States--Politics and government--2017-2021.
- Politics and government.
- Genre:
- Case studies.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 418 pages ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2020.
- Summary:
- "The extraordinary authority of the American presidency has no parallel in the democratic world. Today, that power rests in the hands of Donald J. Trump -- and rarely, if ever, has the nature of a president clashed more profoundly with that of the office. Unmaking the Presidency is the definitive account of the unprecedented confrontation between a man and the institution he has come to embody."-- Front flap of dust jacket.
- Contents:
- Introduction: "It's modern day presidential"
- "I do solemnly swear": The oath
- "The president needs help": White House decisions
- "This president runs this government": The non-unitary executive
- "When a president speaks...it is for keeps": the official voice
- "An inexhaustible fund of political lies": the war on truth
- "The love of power, and the love of money": ethics in the White House
- "The power to protect the guilty": corrupting justice
- "A total political witch hunt!": Investigating the president
- "Without deliberation...or appreciation of facts": the conduct of foreign affairs
- "It squints towards monarchy": the kingly powers
- Conclusion: "A man unprincipled in private life desperate in his fortune, bold in his temper"
- Postscript.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [307]-397) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780374175368
- 0374175365
- OCLC:
- 1102179967
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