How to Get Rid of a President: History's Guide to Removing Unpopular, Unable, or Unfit Chief Executives
- ISBN-10
- 1541788214
- ISBN-13
- 9781541788213
- Category
- Political Science
- Pages
- 320
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2018-11-13
- Publisher
- PublicAffairs
- Author
- David Priess
Description
A vivid political history of the schemes, plots, maneuvers, and conspiracies that have attempted -- successfully and not -- to remove unwanted presidents To limit executive power, the founding fathers created fixed presidential terms of four years, giving voters regular opportunities to remove their leaders. Even so, Americans have often resorted to more dramatic paths to disempower the chief executive. The American presidency has seen it all, from rejecting a sitting president's renomination bid and undermining their authority in office to the more drastic methods of impeachment, and, most brutal of all, assassination. How to Get Rid of a President showcases the political dark arts in action: a stew of election dramas, national tragedies, and presidential departures mixed with party intrigue, personal betrayal, and backroom shenanigans. This briskly paced, darkly humorous voyage proves that while the pomp and circumstance of presidential elections might draw more attention, the way that presidents are removed teaches us much more about our political order.
Get the book
Other editions
Similar books
-
The President's Book of Secrets: The Untold Story of Intelligence Briefings to America's Presidents
By David PriessDavid Priess, a former intelligence officer and daily briefer, has interviewed every living president and vice president as well as more than one hundred others intimately involved with the production and delivery of the president's book of ...
-
To End a Presidency: The Power of Impeachment
By Laurence Tribe, Joshua MatzAs Congress prepares articles of impeachment of President Trump, read the definitive book on presidential impeachment and how it should be used today.
-
Let the People Pick the President: The Case for Abolishing the Electoral College
By Jesse WegmanRobert C. Turner, “The Contemporary Presidency: Do Nebraska and Maine Have the Right Idea? The Political and Partisan Implications of the District System,” Presidential Studies Quarterly, Vol. 35, No. 1 (February 8, 2005), p.
-
Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House
By Michael WolffAligned with Tillerson were the three generals, Mattis, McMasters, and Kelly, each seeing themselves as representing maturity, stability, and restraint. And each, of course, was resented by Trump for it. The suggestion that any or all ...
-
The Impeachers: The Trial of Andrew Johnson and the Dream of a Just Nation
By Brenda WineappleThomas Schoonover, Civil War History. June 1973:149-61. Ruchames, Louis. “Charles Sumner and American Historiography." The Journal of Negro History. April 1953: 139–60. Ruddy, Richard A. Edmund G. Ross: Soldier, Senator, Abolitionist.
-
The Shadow President: The Truth About Mike Pence
By Michael D'Antonio, Peter EisnerWhat chance did Cooper have in the court system? Experts disagreed about what ... The reality was, however, that Pence's staff treated the Cooper case not in human terms, but as a political problem. ... We just aren't talking about it.
-
Why Do We Still Have the Electoral College?
By Alexander KeyssarNational Commission on Federal Election Reform, Transcript, Hearing 1, Panel 4, Mar. ... 2002), 144; William Schneider, “An Insider's View,” Atlantic Monthly, July 1988, 29–57; James C. Garand and T. Wayne Parent, “Representation, ...
-
The Mueller Report: The Final Report of the Special Counsel on Russian Interference in the 2016 Presidential Election
By Robert S. MuellerThis is the full Mueller Report, as released on April 18, 2019, by the U.S. Department of Justice.
-
The Global 2000 Report to the President--entering the Twenty-first Century: The technical report
By Global 2000 StudyThe Global 2000 Report to the President--entering the Twenty-first Century: The technical report
-
Making Brazil Work: Checking the President in a Multiparty System
By M. Melo, C. PereiraThis book offers the first conceptually rigorous analysis of the political and institutional underpinnings of Brazil's recent rise.