Patterns of Power in American Political Fiction presents a study of power as it manifests itself in ideology, structure, process and personality, and provides political and literary frameworks for critically examining and teaching political fiction.
Patterns of Power in American Political Fiction presents a study of power as it manifests itself in ideology, structure, process and personality, and ...
The President of the United States, says the Constitution, cannot act in many specified instances without the advice and consent of Congress. But advice is not a strong word. And taking or not taking advice is a fairly nebulous situation . . . creating an instability, a fundamental ambiguity, at the very heart of power, between the Congress and the President. It is this instability, and this wide-openness, that allows the free play of the more intangible types of power that begin where the constitution breaks off: sex, personality, and character. Things which are left out of civics textbooks...
The President of the United States, says the Constitution, cannot act in many specified instances without the advice and consent of Congress. But advi...
