The American presidency.

Door: Bellamy, Francis Rufus.

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• Uitgever: With an introduction by D.W. Brogan. London : Hamish Hamilton, 1957. Orig. cloth binding. Dustjacket (chipped). xvi,175 pp. ; 21 cm. Owner's stamp on title-page. Conditie: goed
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• Extra informatie: From the publisher : That the 'greatest job in the history of the world' is not an exaggerated definition of the American Presidency Presiden would be admitted today by most free people outside the United States as well as by Americans themselves. The Founding Fathers defined that job in four short paragraphs-a mere 320 words. In this remarkable and most timely book, Professor Clinton Rossiter shows how that original definition has been expanded, modified and implemented in the intervening decades. The Presidency is, in Woodrow Wilson's words, perpetually bathed in a flood of 'pitiless publicity' and, as Pro- fessor Brogan points out in his Intro- duction, this book is especially valuable because 'here we have a historian and political scientist turning the calm light of learning and reflection rather than the Klieg lights of publicity on the office now held by General Eisenhower.' Here are vital facts which nowadays concern us all. What are the prerogatives that comprise the President's enormous powers? What are the safeguards that keep the Presidency this side of dictatorship? Who were the greatest Presidents, who the near-great, who the almost failures, and why? What is the future of the Presidency? Are there measures of reform worthy of consideration? And what of the men who have made the modern Presidency - Roosevelt, Truman and Eisenhower? In what is perhaps the most provocative part of his study, Mr. Rossiter, who is Professor of Government at Cornell University, analyses the character and quality of the last three Presidents.
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