Command of Office
Subtitle: How War, Secrecy, and Deception Transformed the Presidency from Theodore Roosevelt to George W. Bush
Publisher: Basic Books
Published: October 12, 2004
Language: eng
Number of pages: 560
ISBN-13: 9780465027576
First sentence: THOSE WHO FRAMED the U.S. Constitution were determined that the new republic should be deterred from pursuing the political policies and practices of the old country, abandoning royal power and the exaggerated deference it inspired, shunning war in all but very exceptional circumstances.