This is a classic statement by a preeminent historian about the increase in unconstitutional power that presidents have accumulated.

An extremely interesting history of the evolution of the relative power and influence of the executive branch of the American government. Written shortly after the Nixon administration, and the book views it not as an aberration, but as a culmination of executive power, which has continued to expand beyond its original constitutional grounds.

Links accumulation of powers of foreign policy during war time (Civil War, WWI, WWII, Korea, and finally Vietnam) to later accumulation of domestic power - crucial.

One wonders what Schlesinger thought of the last few administrations. Need to acquire his diaries. He is an insightful thinker about the nature of power. ( )

EVEN FROM A LIBERAL ITS AN ENTHRALLING READ ABOUT THE HISTORY OF EXECUTIVE POWER AND ITS EXCESSES,,,REST IN PEACE DR. SCHLESINGER ( )

Political biography