The cult of the presidency
Subtitle: America's dangerous devotion to executive power
By: Gene Healy.
Contributors: Cato Institute.
Publisher: Cato Institute
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781933995151
Subjects: Presidents -- United States; Executive power -- United States; Executive-legislative relations -- United States; United States -- Politics and government -- 2001-
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: "Progress" and the presidency; title: The age of the heroic presidency; title: Hero takes a fall; title: Superman returns; title: War president; title: Omnipotence and impotence; title: Why the worst get on top, and get worse; title: Toward normalcy.