Power and Constraint: The Accountable Presidency After 9/11 by Jack L. Goldsmith

Power and Constraint: The Accountable Presidency After 9/11

Jack L. Goldsmith

336 pages first pub 2012 (editions)

nonfiction politics informative reflective slow-paced
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Conventional wisdom holds that 9/11 sounded the death knell for presidential accountability. In fact, the opposite is true. The novel powers that our post-9/11 commanders in chief assumed—endless detentions, military commissions, state secrets, br...

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