Some Presidential interpretations of the Presidency

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Additional Physical Format: Online version: Small, Norman J. (Norman Jerome), Some Presidential interpretations of the Presidency. Baltimore, Johns Hopkins Press, Some Presidential interpretations of the Presidency. New York, Da Capo Press, [©] (OCoLC) Material Type: Thesis/dissertation: Document Type: Book: All Authors / Contributors: Norman J Small.

Characterizing the American presidency—the task that this book has set for itself—is, as a result, very challenging. We start by distinguishing the presidency from the presidents, the office from those who held it. This book is not, then, a collection of presidential biographies, although it /5(11).

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It's not that it's a dense read (quite 5/5(1). Footnotes [1] Christopher Andrews, For the President’s Eyes Only: Secret Intelligence and the American Presidency from Washington to Bush (Harper Collins, ). [2] John L. Helgerson, Getting to Know the President: Intelligence Briefings of Presidential Candidates, – (Center for the Study of Intelligence, ).

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