The modern presidency

by Pfiffner, James P.

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Title Statements

Full title :The modern presidency / James P. Pfiffner.

Summary

This book was written to try to explain how the presidency got from there to here. As an introduction to the presidency, it does not attempt to describe or explain all aspects of the office. Rather, its purpose is to focus on the transformation of the presidency from a small group of advisers to a large collection of bureaucracies supporting the president. Thus, the emphasis is so much on the president as a person but on all of the supporting people and institutions, what some have called the "presidential branch," to distinguish it from the rest of the executive branch over which the president presides. But the executive branch is a hierarchy accountable to the president, who plays the executive role in the constitutional separation of powers system.-Pref

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2007.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Recording for the Blind & Dyslexic
Place of Publication:Princeton, N.J
Language:eng
Publication Date:2007.

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The Physical Object

Description:1 audio disc ; : 4 3/4 in.

Edition Identifiers

oclc:ocn162141964
Dewey Decimal:973.92 T

Presidency, origins and powers -- President and the public -- White House staff and organization -- Institutional presidency -- Cabinet and the Executive branch -- President and Congress -- President and national security -- Abuse of power and presidential reputation -- Appendixes: Presidents of the United States; Constitution of the United States of America, Articles I and II; Constitutional Amendments that affect the presidency, Amendments XII, XX, XXII, and XXV.

Subjects

Executive power Executive power -- History -- 20th cent… History Pouvoir exécutif -- Histoire -- 20e siè… Presidents Présidents -- Histoire -- 20e siècle. -… Presidents -- History -- 20th century. … Presidents -- Staff Presidents -- Staff -- 20th century. --… United States