Takeover: The Return of the Imperial Presidency and the Subversion of American Democracy by Charlie Savage
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Book Summary Author: Charlie Savage Edition: Hardcover Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published) Published: 2007-09-05 ISBN: 0316118044 Number of pages: 416 Publisher: Little, Brown and Company |
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Book Reviews of the Takeover: The Return of the Imperial Presidency and the Subversion of American Democracy
Customer Review: Brilliant!!!
Summary: 5 Stars
Picking up from where he left off with his Pulitzer winning, April 2006 story, detailing President Bush's use of signing statements to disregard laws passed by Congress, Charlie Savage continues down the path to reveal astonishing details about Bush-Cheney machinations, and manipulations of power to move hidden agendas that would seriously challenge the constitutional balance of our democracy.
``If a president has the power to instruct the government not to enforce laws that he alone has declared to be unconstitutional, then he can free himself from the need to obey laws that restrict his own actions,'' Savage writes.
The book forms mostly on Charlie Savage's work for the Boston Globe to offer an expansive discussion of the longstanding debate over executive authority. Savage writes that Bush administration has engineered nothing less than a far-reaching power grab, avowing its dominance on issues ranging from torture, wiretapping, executive privilege to the hiring of interns, and has surpassed Richard Nixon when it comes to spying on citizens, ignoring the law and trampling on the Constitution.
Takeover: The Return of the Imperial Presidency and the Subversion of American Democracy, is not just another book on ""Bush-Bashing". It's investigative journalism at its best, and on par with Bob Woodward's "State of Denial."
Highly Recommended!!!
N.Sivakumar
Author of:
America Misunderstood: What a Second Bush Victory Meant to the Rest of the World