The Presidents and the People

Five Leaders Who Threatened Democracy and the Citizens Who Fought to Defend It

Corey Brettschneider (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

368 Seiten

2025
WW Norton & Co (Verlag)
978-1-324-11088-0 (ISBN)

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American presidents have often pushed the boundaries established for them by the Constitution; this is the inspirational history of the people who pushed back

Imagine an American president who imprisoned critics, spread a culture of white supremacy and tried to upend the law so that he could commit crimes with impunity. In this propulsive and eminently readable history, Corey Brettschneider provides a thoroughly researched account of assaults on democracy by not one such president but five: John Adams, James Buchanan, Andrew Johnson, Woodrow Wilson and Richard Nixon.

Brettschneider shows that these presidents didn’t have the last word; citizen movements brought the United States back from the precipice by appealing to a democratic understanding of the Constitution and pressuring subsequent reform-minded presidents to realise the promise of “We the People”. This is a book about citizens—Frederick Douglass, Ida B. Wells, Daniel Ellsberg and more—who fought back against presidential abuses of power and give hope about the possibilities of restoring democracy.

Corey Brettschneider is a professor at Brown University, where he teaches constitutional law and politics. He has written for the New York Times, the Washington Post, and Time. He is also the author of The Oath and the Office. He lives in New York.

Erscheinungsdatum	12.09.2025
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	140 x 211 mm
Gewicht	300 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
	Recht / Steuern ► Öffentliches Recht
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Systeme
ISBN-10	1-324-11088-0 / 1324110880
ISBN-13	978-1-324-11088-0 / 9781324110880
Zustand	Neuware