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The cult of the presidency : America's dangerous devotion to executive power
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- Creator
- Gene Healy
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- Language
- English
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- Washington, D.C. : Cato Institute, [2009]
- ©2008
- Physical Details
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- viii, 383 pages ; 23 cm
- ISBNs
- 193399519X, 9781933995199
- OCLC
- ocn271080963
- "First paperback printing: 2009"--T.p. verso.
- "With a new afterword on the Obama presidency"--Cover.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Our chief magistrate and his powers -- "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 -- Afterword