Reassessing the Presidency: the Rise of the Executive State and the Decline of Freedom

Denson, John V.

ISBN 10: 0945466293 / ISBN 13: 9780945466291

Published by Institute, 2001

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Reassessing the Presidency: the Rise of the Executive State and the Decline of Freedom
• Publisher: Institute
• Publication Date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0945466293
• ISBN 13: 9780945466291
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

This remarkable volume is the first full-scale revision of the official history of the U.S. executive state. It traces the progression of power exercised by American presidents from the early American Republican up to the eventual reality of the power-hungry Caesars which later appear as president in American history. Contributors examine the usual judgments of the historical profession to show the ugly side of supposed presidential greatness.

The mission inherent in this undertaking is to determine how the presidency degenerated into the office of American Caesar. Did the character of the man who held the office corrupt it, or did the power of the office, as it evolved, corrupt the man? Or was it a combination of the two? Was there too much latent power in the original creation of the office as the Anti-Federalists claimed? Or was the power externally created and added to the position by corrupt or misguided men?

Contributors include George Bittlingmayer, John V. Denson, Marshall L. DeRosa, Thomas J. DiLorenzo, Lowell Gallaway, Richard M. Gamble, David Gordon, Paul Gottfried, Randall G. Holcombe, Hans-Hermann Hoppe, Jeffrey Rogers Hummel, Michael Levin, Yuri N. Maltsev, William Marina, Joseph Salerno, Barry Simpson, Joseph Stromberg, H. Arthur Scott Trask, Richard Vedder, and Clyde Wilson.