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The Personal President

Power Invested, Promise Unfulfilled

The Personal President( )
Author: Lowi, Theodore J.
ISBN:978-0-8014-1798-6
Publication Date:Mar 1985
Publisher:Cornell University Press
Book Format:Hardback
List Price:AUD $109.00
Book Description:

Looks at how the office of the presidency has changed, argues that the president has become too central to national politics, and suggests ways to restore the constitutional balance.

Book Details
Pages:240
Detailed Subjects: Biography & Autobiography / Presidents & Heads Of State
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):15.24 x 22.86 x 2.032 cm
Book Weight:0.909 Kilograms
Author Biography
Lowi, Theodore J. (Author)
Theodore Jay Lowi was born in Gadsden, Alabama on July 9, 1931. He received a bachelor's degree from Michigan State University and a master's degree and a doctorate in political science from Yale University. He taught at Cornell University from 1959 to 1965, returned in 1972 and remained the John L. Senior professor of American institutions until he was granted emeritus status in 2015. He was a political scientist who wrote numerous books including The End of Liberalism: The Second Republic of the United States, The Politics of Disorder, American Government: Incomplete Conquest, The Personal President, and Hyperpolitics: An Interactive Dictionary of Political Science written with Mauro Calise. He also edited The Pursuit of Justice by Robert F. Kennedy. He died on February 17, 2017 at the age of 85.

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