Using diaries, letters, and internal government documents, the author fully explores FDR's involvement and attitudes towards Executive Order 9066, the fateful decree which enabled Japanese Americans to be rounded up into internment camps ...
Dresden and Thompson as security men assigned to her for her protection that night. The guards nodded and waved her on, half saluting. “That was uncalled for,” Thompson said, as she drove into the garage's vast interior.
Sidney Osborn, OF 197-A (Japan); “President's Secretary Notes Nisei Sacrifice in Evacuation,” Pacific Citizen, March 25, 1943, p. 1. 148. Letter, M. M. Tozier to Dorothea Lang [sic], May 21, 1942, WRA Correspondence File, RG 210, ...
Scholars and citizens alike have endlessly debated the proper limits of presidential action within our democracy. Yet few have truly understood the nature of the president's special powers and their...
When a leased Boeing 727 is violently hijacked from Angola and flown to parts unknown, the President turns to an outsider—Major Carlos Guillermo Castillo—for answers.
By Order of the President
When a leased Boeing 727 is violently hijacked from Angola and flown to parts unknown, the President turns to an outsider—Major Carlos Guillermo Castillo—for answers.
A key feature of the second edition are case studies on the post-9/11 evolution of presidential direct action in ways that have drawn little public attention.
A cogent analysis of how modern presidents from FDR through Barack Obama have used--and exploited--the means of "presidential direct action," including executive orders, national security directives, and presidential proclamations.