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War powers : how the imperial presidency hijacked the Constitution
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- Creator
- Peter Irons
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- First edition
- New York : Metropolitan Books, 2005
- Physical Details
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- x, 303 pages ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780805075939, 0805075933
- OCLC
- ocm57529977
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [287]-290) and index.
- In the beginning: "the power of war and peace" -- "Not only war but public war": congressional authority in the new nation -- "A war unjust and unnecessary": seizing a continental empire -- "The great exigencies of government": the Civil War -- "Remember the Maine": the birth of imperial America -- "We must have no criticism now": the war to end all wars -- "The sole organ of the nation": the birth of the imperial presidency -- "The very bring of constitutional power": Japanese Americans and German saboteurs -- "A world-wide American empire": the imperial presidency in the Cold War -- "What every schoolboy knows": Vietnam and congressional abdication -- "We were going to war": from the Gulf War to Afghanistan -- "We will not hesitate to act alone": the American colossus in the age of preemptive war -- "The constitution is just a piece of paper": empire vs. democracy