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Unmaking the presidency : Donald Trump's war on the world's most powerful office / Susan Hennessey and Benjamin Wittes.

by Hennessey, Susan, 1985-

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Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2020.

Trump, Donald, 1946-

Presidents -- United States.

Political leadership -- United States -- Case studies.

Executive power -- United States.

United States -- Politics and government -- 2017-

9780374175368 (hc.)

viii, 418 p. ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: "It's modern day presidential" -- "I do solemnly swear": The oath -- "The president needs help": White House decisions -- "This president runs this government": The non-unitary executive -- "When a president speaks...it is for keeps": the official voice -- "An inexhaustible fund of political lies": the war on truth -- "The love of power, and the love of money": ethics in the White House -- "The power to protect the guilty": corrupting justice -- "A total political witch hunt!": Investigating the president -- "Without deliberation...or appreciation of facts": the conduct of foreign affairs -- "It squints towards monarchy": the kingly powers -- Conclusion: "A man unprincipled in private life desperate in his fortune, bold in his temper" -- Postscript.

"The extraordinary authority of the American presidency has no parallel in the democratic world. Today, that power rests in the hands of Donald J. Trump -- and rarely, if ever, has the nature of a president clashed more profoundly with that of the office. Unmaking the Presidency is the definitive account of the unprecedented confrontation between a man and the institution he has come to embody." -- Jacket.

Wittes, Benjamin.

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