How to Get Rid of a President: History's Guide to Removing Unpopular, Unable, or Unfit Chief Executives - Hardcover

Priess, David

 
9781541788206: How to Get Rid of a President: History's Guide to Removing Unpopular, Unable, or Unfit Chief Executives
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1541788206 ISBN 13: 9781541788206
Publisher: PublicAffairs,U.S., 2018

Synopsis

To limit executive power, the Founding Fathers created fixed presidential terms of four years, giving voters regular opportunities to remove their leaders. Americans also discovered more dramatic paths for disempowering--or coming razor-close to removing--chief executives: undermining the president's authority, a preemptive strike to derail a presidential candidacy, assassination, impeachment, resignation, and declaration of inability. Although the United States has gone decades without assassination or resignation, the most dramatic forms of presidential removal, getting rid of a president or a potential president is a political reality--just ask not president Hillary Clinton.

How To Get Rid of a President presents the dark side of the nation's history, from the Constitutional Convention through the aftermath of the shocking 2016 election, a stew of election dramas, national tragedies, and presidential exits mixed with party intrigue, political betrayal, and backroom scheming. It is a briskly paced, darkly humorous voyage through historical events relevant to today's headlines, highlighting the many ways that presidents have been undermined and nearly kicked out, how each method of removal offers opportunities and dangers for the republic, and the thorny ethical issues that surround the choice to resist, disobey, or eject a president.

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About the Author

David Priess is author of the The President's Book of Secrets: The Untold Story of Intelligence Briefings to America's Presidents. He has a PhD in Political Science from Duke University and served at the CIA during the presidencies of Bill Clinton and George W. Bush as an intelligence officer, manager, and daily intelligence briefer and at the State Department. Priess writes, speaks, and appears often on broadcast media about the presidency and national security.

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Publisher
PublicAffairs,U.S.
Publication date
2018
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1541788206
ISBN 13 
9781541788206
Binding
Hardcover
Number of pages
320

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