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Takeover: The Return of the Imperial Presidency and the Subversion of American Democracy
ISBN: 9780316118057 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Praised everywhere as a stunning work of reportage, TAKEOVER lays bare a hidden agenda, three decades in the making, to allow the White House to wield enormous powers, unchecked by Congres or the courts--an agenda that links warrantless wiretapping and Bush's judicial nominees, torture and Cheney's energy task force, the faith-based initiative and the imprisonment of citizens without trial. TAKEOVER tells the story of how a group of true believers, led by Cheney, set out to establish near-monarchical executive powers that, in the words of one conservative critic, "will lie around like a...
Praised everywhere as a stunning work of reportage, TAKEOVER lays bare a hidden agenda, three decades in the making, to allow the White House to wield...
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108,11 zł |
Power Wars: The Relentless Rise of Presidential Authority and Secrecy
ISBN: 9780316286596 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 848 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Charlie Savage's penetrating investigation of the Obama presidency and the national security state
Barack Obama campaigned on changing George W. Bush's "global war on terror" but ended up entrenching extraordinary executive powers, from warrantless surveillance and indefinite detention to military commissions and targeted killings. Then Obama found himself bequeathing those authorities to Donald Trump. How did the United States get here? In Power Wars, Charlie Savage reveals high-level national security legal and policy... Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Charlie Savage's penetrating investigation of the Obama presidency and the national security state |
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155,69 zł |