Presidential Power

Resources

See Also

Further Reading

Abbott, Philip. Strong Presidents: A Theory of Leadership. Knoxville, Tenn., 1996.

Adler, David Gray. “The President’s War-Making Power.” In Thomas E. Cronin, ed. Inventing the American Presidency. Lawrence, Kans., 1969.

. “The Constitution and Presidential Warmaking: The Enduring Debate.” Political Science Quarterly 103 (spring 1988): 1-36.

Ambrose, Stephen E. “The Presidency and Foreign Policy.” Foreign Affairs 70 (winter 1992): 120-137.

Bailey, Thomas A. Presidential Greatness: The Image and the Man from George Washington to the Present. New York 1966. Readable and provocative.

. The Pugnacious Presidents: White House Warriors on Parade. New York, 1980.

Berger, Raoul. “The Presidential Monopoly of Foreign Affairs.” Michigan Law Review 71 (November 1972): 1-58.

Bledsoe, W. Craig, et al. Powers of the Presidency. 2d ed. Washington, D.C., 1997.

Cheever, Daniel S., and H. Field Haviland, Jr. American Foreign Policy and the Separation of Powers. Cambridge, Mass., 1952.

Corwin, Edward S. The President’s Control of Foreign Relations. Princeton, N.J., 1917.

Corwin, Edward S., et al. The President: Office and Powers, 1787-1984, History and Analysis of Practice and Opinion. 5th rev. ed. New York, 1984. Corwin’s books are the pioneering works on the subject. They are still valuable for their scholarship and analyses.

DeConde, Alexander. Presidential Machismo: Executive Authority, Military Intervention, and Foreign Relations. Boston, 2000. Covers in greater detail, with documentation and an extensive bibliography, much of the subject and interpretations in this essay.

Eagleton, Thomas F. War and Presidential Power: A Chronicle of Congressional Surrender. New York, 1974.

Fisher, Louis. Presidential War Power. Lawrence, Kans., 1995. Both of Fisher’s books are scholarly, authoritative, and important sources.

More Further Reading

-. Constitutional Conflicts Between Congress and the President. 4th ed. Lawrence, Kans., 1997.

Franck, Thomas M., ed. The Tethered Presidency: Congressional Restraints on Executive Power. New York, 1981.

Friedman, David S. “Waging War Against Checks and Balances: The Claim of an Unlimited Presidential War Power.” St. John’s Law Review 57 (winter 1983): 213-273.

Glennon, Michael J. “Can the President Do No Wrong?” American Journal of International Law 80 (October 1986): 923-930.

Goldsmith, William M. The Growth of Presidential Power: A Documented History. 3 vols. New York, 1974. A collection of documents with commentary.

Graber, Doris A. Public Opinion, the President, and Foreign Policy: Four Case Studies from the Formative Years. New York, 1968. Covers the early national era.

Henkin, Louis. Foreign Affairs and the United States Constitution. 2d ed. New York, 1996. A scholarly and perceptive mainstay in the field.

Lehman, John F. Making War: The 200-Year-Old Battle Between the President and Congress over How America Goes to War. New York, 1991. A readable popular account.

Levy, Leonard W., and Louis Fisher, eds. Encyclopedia of the American Presidency. 4 vols. New York, 1994.

McDonald, Forrest. The American Presidency: An Intellectual History. Lawrence, Kans., 1994.

Marks, Frederick W., III. Independence on Trial: Foreign Affairs and the Making of the Constitution. Baton Rouge, La., 1973.

May, Ernest R., ed. The Ultimate Decision: The President as Commander in Chief. New York, 1960. Essays on selected presidents and their influence.

Mullen, William F. Presidential Power and Politics. New York, 1976.

Murray, Robert K., and Tim H. Blessing. Greatness in the White House: Rating the Presidents. 2d ed. University Park, Pa., 1994.

Neustadt, Richard E. Presidential Power and the Modern Presidents: Politics and Leadership from Roosevelt to Reagan. Rev. ed. New York, 1990. An influential study that stresses the power of persuasion.

Rakove, Jack N. Original Meanings: Politics and Ideas in the Making of the Constitution. New York, 1996. The chapter “Creating the Presidency” is particularly rewarding.

Riccards, Michael P. The Ferocious Engine of Democracy: A History of the American Presidency. 2 vols. Lanham, Md., 1995.