The American Presidency: Perspectives from Abroad
- ISBN-10
- 0819185507
- ISBN-13
- 9780819185501
- Series
- The American Presidency
- Category
- Political Science / Public Affairs & Administration
- Pages
- 234
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1986
- Publisher
- University Press of America
- Author
- Kenneth W. Thompson
Description
The third in the series The American Presidency: Perspectives from Abroad, this book includes perspectives from the Commonwealth, from Europe, and from the Middle East. In the first category, David Butler addresses the Presidency and American Constitutionalism; Ambassador F. Rawdon Dalrymple gives an Australian view of the Presidency; Michael Foot looks at American Presidents past and present; Sir Nivian Stephens surveys constitutions and J.D.B. Miller sums up. Francis H. Heller provides a comparison of the French and American Presidencies while Farhang Rajaee gives the view of the American Presidency from Iran and Ambassador Talcott W. Seelye looks at the Presidency and the Middle East. Co-published with the Miller Center of Public Affairs.
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