Research Catalog

Title

Party politics, why we have poor Presidents : an inquiry into the decline of the Presidency, the reasons for its deterioration, and a proposal for its improvement / Leonard Lurie.

Author

Lurie, Leonard.

Publication

New York : Stein and Day, 1980.

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Details

Description

xi, 326 pages; 24 cm

Subject

• USA Präsident
• National Radical Party Serbien
• Political parties > United States
• Presidents > United States
• Political parties
• Presidents
• Partei
• Presidenten
• Politieke partijen
• Politiska partier
• Presidenter
• Partei
• United States
• Verenigde Staten

Note

• Includes index.

Bibliography (note)

• Bibliography: p. 297-312.

Contents

Preface -- A cautionary note to the reader -- A nightmare vision -- The low point of party influence -- Posts of honor, places of profit -- National parties appear on the horizon -- The political party coup -- The bold and the violent -- The birth of the Republican Party -- The death of the Republican Party -- How hacks produced hacks -- An opportunity to inhibit party larceny -- Emergence of the one-party system -- The myth of the imperial presidency -- A fool as president -- The criminal administration -- The institutionalizing of presidential incapacity -- The accident of ability -- The decline of the presidency -- The honcho presidents: one in style, the other in substance -- How a criminal became president -- A timid supposition and a simple proposal.

ISBN

• 0812827546
• 9780812827545

LCCN

80018927

OCLC

• ocm06532765
• 6532765
• SCSB-24494

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library