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Mark Rozell's Executive Privilege—called "the definitive contemporary work on the subject" by the Journal of Politics—is widely considered the best in-depth history and analysis of executive privilege and its relation to the proper scope and limits of presidential power. Indeed, it was one of only a few books that President Bill Clinton once selected for his summer reading, according U.S. News & World Report. Picking up where the second edition left off-in the early days of George W. Bush's first presidential term-this revised and updated third edition provides a thorough analysis of the controversies stirred by Bush 43's aggressive and relentless use of executive privilege over an eight-year period. It also provides the first close look at the intense debates already emerging around President Barack Obama's own struggle to both wield and locate the limits of this powerful executive tool. Rozell takes a balanced approach to a subject mired in controversy, providing both a historical overview of the doctrine and an explanation of its importance in the American political process. Although it is viewed by many as undemocratic—or even a "constitutional myth"—Rozell argues that executiv

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Author

Mark J. Rozell with Mitchell A. Sollenberger

Publisher

University Press of Kansas

Published

1994

Language

EN

ISBN

9780700629657

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Political Science, History, Law