All Things to All Men: The False Promise of the Modern American Presidency
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1980. First Printing. 296, notes, bibliography, index, insect damage to a few pgs, foxing & stamp to fore-edge, DJ somewhat soiled & worn: small tears The author argues that the institution of the presidency no longer works, and that it has not worked since the incumbency of Franklin D. Roosevelt. On page 52 he asserts that the modern presidency was in part the product of the Spanish-American War and the sudden plunge of the United States into imperial adventures. More