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Also by Gene Healy:

The Cult of the Presidency, May 2008
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The Cult of the Presidency
Gene Healy

America's Dangerous Devotion to Presidential Power

Cato Institute
May 2008
On Sale: May 13, 2008
264 pages
ISBN: 1933995157
EAN: 9781933995151
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction Political

The Bush years have justifiably given rise to fears of a new Imperial Presidency. Yet despite the controversy surrounding the administration's expansive claims of executive power, both Left and Right agree on the boundless nature of presidential responsibility. The Imperial Presidency is the price we seem to be willingly and dangerously agreeable to pay the office the focus of our national hopes and dreams. Interweaving historical scholarship, legal analysis, and cultural commentary, The Cult of the Presidency argues that the Presidency needs to be reined in, its powers checked and supervised, and its wartime authority put back under the oversight of the Congress and the courts. Only then will we begin to return the Presidency to its proper constitutionally limited role.

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