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

Title page......Page 1
Dedication......Page 3
Acknowledgments......Page 4
Contents......Page 5
Introduction......Page 7
1. Rating Presidential Performance......Page 35
2.George Washington: An IMage and Its Influence......Page 67
3.Thomas Jefferson: Classical-Liberal Statesman of the Old Republic......Page 79
4. Supreme Court as Accomplice: Judicial Backing for a Despotic Presidency......Page 139
5. The Electoral College as a Restraing on American Democracy......Page 171
6. Martin Van Buren: The American Gladstone......Page 203
7.Abraham Lincoln and the Triumph of Mercantilism......Page 237
8.Lincoln and the First Shot: A Study of Deceit and Deception......Page 265
9. President Andrew Johnson: Tribune of States' Rights......Page 323
10.William Mckinley: Architect of the American Empire......Page 353
11.Theodore Roosevelt and the Modern Presidency......Page 375
12.The Use and Abuse of Antitrust from Cleveland to Clinton......Page 397
13.From Opponent of Empire to Career Opportunist: William Howard Taft......Page 419
14.Woodrow Wilson's Revolution Within the Form......Page 447
15.Franklin Delano Roosevelt's New Deal......Page 459
16.Franklin Delano Roosevelt and the First Shot......Page 487
17.Despotism love Company: The Story of Franklin D. Roosevelt and Josef Stalin......Page 561
18.Harry S. Truman: Advancing the Revolution......Page 581
19. From Kennedy's "New Economics" to Nixon's "New Economic Policy"......Page 621
20.The Managerial President......Page 675
21.The President as Social Engineer......Page 685
22.On the Impossiblity of Limited Government and the Prospects for a Second American Revolution......Page 701
23.The American President: from Cincinnatus to Caesar......Page 731
Appendix A: Ececutive Usurpation......Page 745
Appendix B: Speech on the Declaration of War Against Germany......Page 767
Index......Page 781
Contributors......Page 827