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The American Presidency: An Intellectual History
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by Forrest McDonald
Sales Rank: 320301
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Cover Type: Paperback with 516 pages
Published by: University Press of Kansas October 1995
Written in: English
ISBN 10 Number: 0700607498
ISBN 13 Number: 978-0700607495
Book Dimensions:
9.1 x 6.1 x 1.1 inches
Weighs: 1.6 pounds
From Library Journal
The 55-month commemoration (1987-91) of the U.S. Constitution and a conference on the White House ( The White House, LJ 12/93) have focused academic attention on the chief executive. The attention is justified, for the office is a nearly unique creation. The central issue explored here is whether our system of checks and balances permits strong leaders or reduces them to presidential pygmies. McDonald strains to emphasize that his history concerns evolving perceptions of the presidency rather than an evaluation of those perceptions. Though he concludes that the office "has been responsible for less harm and more good, in the nation and the world, than perhaps any other secular institution in history," his conservative critique sees a decline in its occupants. This very readable is recommended for informed lay readers, historians, and political scientists.
- William D. Pederson, Louisiana State Univ., Shreveport
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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"Forrest McDonald makes history breathe."
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This review is from: The American Presidency: An Intellectual History (Hardcover)
The American Presidency is like no other institution in the world and as evolved precariously from its heyday in 1787. Forrest McDonald focuses on the first few years of the Presidency. he then correlates modern developments and the expansion of the executive state coupled with the rise of the so called fourth branch of government, the bureaucracy. McDonald is somewhat of a conservative, but often withholds judgment on , though refrains from the enthusiastic lust for power and centralization that liberal historians like Arthur Schlesinger seem to have. (I give this book a 3.5/5.0 rating.) I recommend purchasing this book in tandem with _Reassessing the Presidency : The Rise of the Executive State and the Decline of Freedom_ from the Ludwig von Mises Institute.
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