How to Get Rid of a President: History's Guide to Removing Unpopular, Unable, or Unfit Chief Executives - Softcover

Priess, David

 
9781541788220: How to Get Rid of a President: History's Guide to Removing Unpopular, Unable, or Unfit Chief Executives
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1541788222 ISBN 13: 9781541788220
Verlag: PublicAffairs, 2019

Inhaltsangabe

A vivid political history of the schemes, plots, maneuvers, and conspiracies that have attempted -- successfully and not -- to remove unwanted presidents

To limit executive power, the founding fathers created fixed presidential terms of four years, giving voters regular opportunities to remove their leaders. Even so, Americans have often resorted to more dramatic paths to disempower the chief executive. The American presidency has seen it all, from rejecting a sitting president's renomination bid and undermining their authority in office to the more drastic methods of impeachment, and, most brutal of all, assassination.

How to Get Rid of a President showcases the political dark arts in action: a stew of election dramas, national tragedies, and presidential departures mixed with party intrigue, personal betrayal, and backroom shenanigans. This briskly paced, darkly humorous voyage proves that while the pomp and circumstance of presidential elections might draw more attention, the way that presidents are removed teaches us much more about our political order.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

David Priess is author of the The President's Book of Secrets: The Untold Story of Intelligence Briefings to America's Presidents. He has a PhD in Political Science from Duke University and served at the CIA during the presidencies of Bill Clinton and George W. Bush as an intelligence officer, manager, and daily intelligence briefer and at the State Department. Priess writes, speaks, and appears often on broadcast media about the presidency and national security.

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Verlag
PublicAffairs
Erscheinungsdatum
2019
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1541788222
ISBN 13 
9781541788220
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315
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