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Presidential Power in a Time of Terror
New Press
May 2008
On Sale: May 7, 2008
304 pages
ISBN: 1595583475
EAN: 9781595583475
Hardcover
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The single best account of the current executive branch's
grab for power, with a new introduction on recent developments. The abuses of the Bush White House—old news? Far from it.
The work of the next administration will be to undo the
damage that's been done, and this book will be the guide. As
chief counsel to the Church Committee investigating
executive branch abuses in the early 1970s, Fritz Schwarz is
uniquely qualified to comment on the current
administration's power grab. Called a "masterly account of the roots of contemporary
executive over-reaching" by former vice president Walter
Mondale, Unchecked and Unbalanced puts our current political
situation in historical perspective. A new introduction
written for this paperback edition looks at the steps a new
administration will need to take to restore the checks and
balances of American government. Schwarz (whom Bob Herbert of the New York Times described as
one of America's "quiet patriots") and his co-author Aziz
Huq, director of the Liberty and National Security Project
at the Brennan Center, find today's abuses of a different,
more frightening magnitude than those of the past. Whereas
previous presidents and their staffs have sought to hide
actions outside the law, this administration has instead
sought publicly to justify NSA domestic spying, torture,
rendition, and black sites through contorted and flawed
legal reasoning ultimately designed to create a monarchical
presidency.
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