executive power

Explores presidential powers in running the federal bureaucracy, analyzes the president's role in shaping the nation's laws, evaluates the president's powers in overseeing foreign policy, reviews the development of presidential war powers, and looks at the impact of the Chief Executive's ceremonial duties.

Studies the social, economic, political, and international conditions that have shaped the presidency since 1776 and discusses the origins of the presidency, the ways it has changed over time, the history of the vice presidency, and other related topics.

When a Japanese airliner plows into the Capitol building killing the President and most of the members of his Cabinet and Congress, Jack Ryan reluctantly assumes the role of Commander in Chief and must simultaneously calm the nation, conduct an investigation, reassemble the government, and face off with the country's enemies.

A collection of twelve essays on issues concerning presidential powers, including surveillance programs, identifying and detaining enemy combatants, and permitting torture.

Provides accounts of twenty cases in which U.S. presidents made bad decisions that altered the course of history, including Thomas Jefferson's Embargo Acts, Franklin Roosevelt's internment of Japanese Americans during World War II, and George W. Bush's war in Iraq.

Presents a collection of essays from a number of well-known historians that profiles each of the American presidents from George Washington to George W. Bush.

Examines the struggle between fellow Virginians and second cousins Thomas Jefferson and John Marshall over the extent of presidential power and the authority of the Supreme Court to interpret laws during the period in which Jefferson served as president and Marshall as chief justice.

Examines the extent of military power held by America's commander-in-chief--a subject of much debate since the founding of the nation.