Untrodden ground : how Presidents interpret the Constitution / Harold H. Bruff.

Author
Bruff, Harold H., 1944- [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, [2015]
Description
557 pages ; 24 cm

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    Summary note
    Examines constitutional innovations related to executive power made by each of the nation's forty-four presidents.
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references (pages 469-549) and index.
    Contents
    • Responsibility : the Constitution
    • Summoned by my country : Washington and Adams
    • The fugitive occurrence : Jefferson and Madison
    • Independent of both : Jackson, Tyler, and Polk
    • A rough time of it : Lincoln
    • Unmindful of the high duties : Andrew Johnson
    • Facing the lions : McKinley, Theodore Roosevelt, and Wilson
    • What must be done : Franklin Roosevelt
    • Going to hell : Truman and Eisenhower
    • Bear any burden : Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson
    • Not illegal : Nixon, Ford, and Carter
    • First a dream : Reagan
    • The vision thing : George H.W. Bush and Clinton
    • No equivocation : George W. Bush
    • The last mile : Obama.
    ISBN
    • 9780226211107 ((cloth ; : alkaline paper))
    • 022621110X ((cloth ; : alkaline paper))
    LCCN
    2014025164
    OCLC
    881875918
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