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The cult of the presidency : America's dangerous devotion to executive power /

Healy, Gene, 1970-

The cult of the presidency : America's dangerous devotion to executive power / Gene Healy - Washington, D.C.: Cato Institute, 2008 - viii, 367 p. ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index

"Progress" and the presidency -- The age of the heroic presidency -- Hero takes a fall -- Superman returns -- War president -- Omnipotence and impotence -- Why the worst get on top, and get worse -- Toward normalcy.

ISBN: 9781933995151 1933995157

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Presidents--United States
Executive power--United States
Executive-legislative relations--United States

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
United States--Politics and government--2001-2009

LC Class. No.: JK 585 / H434c 2008

Dewey Class. No.: 352.230973

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