Tag: american

National Security and Double Government

41vUbQu4XlL._SS130_National Security and Double GovernmentMichael J. Glennon

The Mark Inside: A Perfect Swindle, a Cunning Revenge, and a Small History of the Big Con

51A2ZLLXIDL._SS130_The mark inside: a perfect swindle, a cunning revenge, and a small history of the big conAmy Reading; Alfred A. Knopf 2012
 

The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism

The Bully Pulpit The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of JournalismDoris Kearns Goodwin; Simon and Schuster 2013

As Frederick Jackson Turner observed in a seminal paper delivered during the American Historical Association meeting in Chicago in 1893, the frontier had closed, and a distinctive phase of American history had thereby come to an end.

 

Roosevelt would not be confined by precedent or bound by fear of failure. He held to what he called “the Jackson-Lincoln theory of the Presidency; that is, that occasionally great national crises arise which call for immediate and vigorous executive action, and that in such cases it is the duty of the President to act upon the theory that he is the steward of the people, and that the proper attitude for him to take is that he is bound to assume that he has the legal right to do whatever the needs of the people demand, unless the Constitution or the laws explicitly forbid him to do it.”