Presidential machismo : executive authority, military intervention, and foreign relations
Publisher description: This book offers a historical account of how presidents from George Washington to Bill Clinton have asserted their privilege as commander in chief, examining their penchant for using military might unilaterally and their reasons for doing so. It asks why a democracy allows presidents to exercise such immense power virtually as a personal right
Print Book, English, ©2000
Northeastern University Press, Boston, ©2000
History
391 pages ; 24 cm
9781555534035, 9781555535100, 1555534031, 1555535100
41320135
Origins of activism
Commander in chief enhanced
To the stewardship theory
Iron-fisted morality
Presidential war as prerogative
Covert interventialism
The watershed
Preeminence regained
Machismo still rewarded
Must presidents prevail?