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Staying True to the Founding Principles: A Review Article
JOSEPH BESSETTE reviews In the Nation that Never Was: Reconstructing America’s Story by Kermit Roosevelt III. He challenges that author’s argument that Americans fundamentally misunderstand the nation’s founding principles as articulated in the Declaration of Independence of 1776 and argues that Roosevelt’s view is bereft of support in the historical record.
Inventing the Job of President: Leadership Style from George Washington to Andrew Jackson, Fred I. Greenstein Reviewed by Joseph M. Bessette
Military Tribunals and Presidential Power: American Revolution to the War on Terrorism, Louis Fisher Reviewed by Joseph M. Bessette
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