Ackerman, Bruce A.

The decline and fall of the American republic [electronic resource] / Bruce Ackerman. - Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2010. - 270 p. - Tanner lectures on human values . - Tanner lectures on human values (Cambridge, Mass.) .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Triumphalism -- The most dangerous branch -- An extremist presidency -- The politicized military -- The question of legitimacy -- Three crises -- Executive constitutionalism -- Reconstruction -- Enlightening politics -- Restoring the rule of law -- Living dangerously.


Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

9780674058392 (electronic bk.)




Presidents--United States.
Executive power--United States.
Constitutional history--United States.


United States--Politics and government--1945-1989.
United States--Politics and government--1989-


Electronic books.

JK516 / .A38 2010

320.973