Takeover: The Return of the Imperial Presidency and the Subversion of American Democracy
by Charlie Savage
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Author: Charlie SavageEdition: Hardcover
Published: 2007-09-05
ISBN: 0316118044
Number of pages: 416
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
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Book Review: Biased and ill-researched
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Could the author PLEASE tell me if President Clinton sets a precedent, and President Bush follows the same rule, that Mr Bush is held as a tyrant?
The author would never write a book about a left-wing politician doing the same thing. He COULD prove me wrong by writing a book about Senator Barak "60 states" (57+1+2)Obama, if the American populous is mentally absent enough to elect him.
Summary of Takeover: The Return of the Imperial Presidency and the Subversion of American Democracy
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' traditional suspicion of concentrated government power. These men hatched a plot that would allow the White House to return to, or even surpass, the virtually unchecked powers that Richard Nixon had briefly tried to wield. Congress would be defanged, and the commander-in-chief would be able to assert a unilateral dominance both at home and abroad.Today, this plot is coming to fruition. As Takeover reveals, the Bush-Cheney administration has succeeded in seizing vast powers for the presidency by throwing off many of the restraints placed upon it by Congress, the courts, and the Constitution. This timely book unveils the secret machinations behind the headlines, explaining the links between warrantless wiretapping and the President Bush's Supreme Court nominees, between the torture debate and the secrecy surrounding Vice President Cheney's energy task force, and between the "faith-based initiative" and the holding of US citizens without trial as "enemy combatants." It tells, for the first time, the full story of a hidden agenda three decades in the making, laying out how a group of true believers set out to establish monarchical executive powers that, in the words of one conservative critic, "will lie around like a loaded weapon" ready to be picked up by any future president.
Brilliantly reported and deftly told, Takeover is a searing investigation into how the constitutional balance of our democracy is in danger of being permanently altered. For anyone who cares about
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