The Presidents and the Constitution, Volume Two (eBook)

From World War I to the Trump Era

Ken Gormley (Herausgeber)

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2022 | Main
Nyu Press (Verlag)
978-1-4798-1998-0 (ISBN)

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A revealing look at the constitutional issues that confronted and shaped each presidency from Woodrow Wilson through Donald J. TrumpDrawing from the monumental publication The Presidents and the Constitution: A Living History in 2016, the nation s foremost experts in the American presidency and the US Constitution tell the intertwined stories of how the last eighteen American presidents have interfaced with the Constitution and thus defined the most powerful office in human history.This volume leads off with Woodrow Wilson, the president who led the nation through World War I, and ends with Donald J. Trump, who ushered the US into uncharted political and legal territory. In between, the country was confronted with international wars, the civil rights movement, 9/11, and the advent of the internet, all of which presented unique and pressing constitutional issues. The last one hundred years reveals the awesome powers of the American presidency in domestic and foreign affairs, illustrating how they have stood up to modern and novel legal challenges. The Presidents and the Constitution is for anyone interested in a captivating and illuminating account of one of the most compelling subjects in our American democracy.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 27.9.2022
• Zusatzinfo: 18 b/w illustrations
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Öffentliches Recht
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
• Schlagworte: 25th amendment • Affirmative Action • Affordable Care Act • Alabama race riots • Al Qaeda • Andrew Mellon • Anita Hill • Baker v. Carr • Black Tuesday • Brownlow Committee • Brown v. Board of Education • Calvin Coolidge • Civil Rights Act of 1964 • Clarence Thomas • clean water act • Comeback Kid • Cooper v. Aaron • Court-packing plan • Covid-19 • cuban missile crisis • Debs v. United States • desegregation • Dick Cheney • Edwards v. United States • eighteenth amendment • Equal Rights Amendment • Espionage Act • Espionage Act of 1917 • Federal Trade Commission • Fourteen Points for Peace • Freedom Riders • G.I. Bill of Rights • Great Depression • Gulf War • Hiroshima • Hoovervilles • Impeachment • Impoundment Control Act of 1974 • Iran-Contra • Iran Hostage Crisis • Judiciary Act of 1925 • Kellogg-Briand Pact of 1928 • Kenneth Starr • Khmer Rouge • Land Grant College Act • League of Nations • Lee Harvey Oswald • Legislative veto • Little Rock • March on Washington • Marshall Plan • Merrick Garland • Monica Lewinsky • Mr. Citizen • National Labor Relations Act • National Labor Relations Board • National Security Act of 1947 • NATO • New Deal • NSA Wiretaps • Osama bin Laden • PATRIOT Act • Paula Jones • Pearl Harbor • Pentagon Papers • Persian Gulf War • Populism • Presidential Records Act of 1978 • Prohibition • Public Works Employment Act • Rasul v Bush • Reagan Revolution • Reapportionment • Red Scare • Roe v. Wade • Saddam Hussein • Sedition Acts • Silent Cal • Social Security Act • Teapot Dome scandal • The Pocket Veto Case • Truman Doctrine • Twenty-Fourth Amendment • Twenty-second Amendment • Twenty-Sixth Amendment • U.S. v. Curtiss-Wright Export Corporation • U.S. v. Nixon • Vietnam War • Volstead Act • Voting Rights Act of 1965 • Watergate • West Coast Hotel Co. v. Parrish • Whitewater scandal • World Trade Center • World War II • Yates v. U.S. • Zimmerman Telegram
• ISBN-10: 1-4798-1998-0 / 1479819980
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4798-1998-0 / 9781479819980