Bibliograph

Unmaking the presidency, Donald Trump's war on the world's most powerful office, Susan Hennessey and Benjamin Wittes

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Label

Unmaking the presidency, Donald Trump's war on the world's most powerful office, Susan Hennessey and Benjamin Wittes

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

resource.biographical

contains biographical information

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Unmaking the presidency

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

1102179967

Responsibility statement

Susan Hennessey and Benjamin Wittes

Sub title

Donald Trump's war on the world's most powerful office

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

Table Of 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

Target audience

adult

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