9780262191333 - Watchmen in the Night: Presidential Accountability After Watergate von Sorensen, Theodore C. (6 Ergebnisse)

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Zustand: Poor. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. Book contains pencil markings. In poor condition, suitable as a reading copy. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,450grams, ISBN:0262191334.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fair. Presumed First Edition, First printing. xviii, 178, [2] pages. Foreword by James MacGregor Burns. Inscribed by the author, Theodore C. Sorensen, on the front free endpaper. Inscription reads For Phil, With respect and admiration for his service. Ted. The book includes a Foreword and a Preface, as well as chapters on The Past as Prologue; The Illusion of Omnipotence; The Sinews of Accountability; Making the President More Accountable to the Courts; Making the President More Accountable to the People; Sources and Notes; Acknowledgments; and Index. Some ink markings on several pages. DJ has some wear and tears, along with small tears and small pieces missing. Theodore Chaikin Sorensen (May 8, 1928 - October 31, 2010) was an American lawyer, writer, and presidential adviser. He was a speechwriter for President John F. Kennedy, as well as one of his closest advisers. President Kennedy once called him his "intellectual blood bank". This book was intended to examine, from the viewpoint of a lawyer who knows the office of the President from the inside, what effect Watergate might have and should have on the future of the American Presidency. It was prompted by the invitation of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the MIT Press to deliver a series of lectures on this topic in the fall of 1974 on which such a book might be based. In Watchmen in the Night, Theodore Sorensen, lawyer and advisor to President John F. Kennedy, offers a comprehensive examination of Watergate and what Richard Nixon's reign and resignation mean to the American Presidency. Rejecting both the assertion that Nixon was a mere aberration and the assertion that Watergate was a culmination of what other Presidents had done, Sorensen sorts out what was new and different in Watergate, including some frank admissions about the Kennedy White House. The Presidency as seen from the inside is not as powerful as it looks from the outside, he writes, commenting on the limitations imposed by the bureaucracy, the press, the Congress, and the courts. Sorensen, while acknowledging a change in perspective since his White House days, still favors a strong Presidency and in fact believes it should be stronger on economic matters. Nevertheless, he feels too strongly about Vietnam and Watergate to defend the status quo, and insists on specific steps to implement "accountability." He deflates the mystique of the Presidency, urges reform in our selection of Presidents, and suggests specific clues for which to look in predicting presidential megalomania. His comparison of the Nixon and Kennedy staffs is particularly insightful. All of this is illustrated with examples of good and bad uses of presidential power. Watchmen in the Night gives the reader an extraordinary sense of how the White House is run and how it should be run.