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The Collapse of Fortress Bush: the crisis of authority in American government

By - Roberts, Alasdair (Alasdair Scott)
Floor - Floor 4
Published - New York : New York University Press, c2008.
ISBN 10 - 081477606X
ISBN 13 - 9780814776063
Book Status - 1 Qnty Available with us.
Subject - Bush, George W. (George Walker), 1946-
Shelf No - 6
common.call_no - 973.93 ROB
common.physical_description - xi, 266 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Notes - Includes bibliographical references (p. 177-250) and index.
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When the Bush presidency began to collapse, pundits were quick to tell a tale of the "imperial presidency" gone awry, a story of secretive, power-hungry ideologues who guided an arrogant president down the road to ruin. But the inside story of the failures of the Bush administration is both much more complex and alarming, says leading policy analyst Alasdair Roberts. In the most comprehensive, balanced view of the Bush presidency to date, Roberts portrays a surprisingly weak president, hamstrung by bureaucratic, constitutional, cultural and economic barriers and strikingly unable to wield auth

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