This is a comprehensive and illustrative work on the historical and contemporary perspective on presidential powers, guiding readers through the presidency as a constitutional office with many updated features from the previous edition.

Historic Documents of 2012 presents primary documents relating to internationally important events of 2012, and colorful narratives to put the documents in context.

This comprehensive, two-volume reference has been thoroughly revised and expanded by expert CQ Press writers to offer a complete institutional history of Congress along with updated insight and analysis on the 2008 and 2010 shifts in power of the US Senate and House of Representatives.