The Modern Presidency or No Place to Hide

The Modern Presidency

Author: James P Pfiffner

THE MODERN PRESIDENCY is a concise and sophisticated text that deals not only with presidents as individuals, but also with the large institutions that make up the modern presidency. Case studies help you understand important aspects of presidential action and decision-making and coverage includes the presidency of George W. Bush.

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Pfiffner (government and public policy, George Mason U.) portrays the presidency as being not so much the president himself, but the numerous people and institutions that support him. Concentrating on the era of the modern presidency (1933 to the present), he explains how what was once a small group of presidential advisors has grown into a large collection of bureaucracies, and how White House staffers have gradually replaced Cabinet secretaries as primary advisors to the president. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

Table of Contents:

	Preface
	About the Author
Ch. 1	The Presidency: Origins and Powers	1
Ch. 2	The President and the Public	15
Ch. 3	The White House Staff and Organization	44
Ch. 4	The Institutional Presidency	84
Ch. 5	The Cabinet and the Executive Branch	102
Ch. 6	The President and Congress	129
Ch. 7	The President and National Security	172
Ch. 8	Abuse of Power and Presidential Reputation	202
App. A	Presidents of the United States	228
App. B	The Constitution of the United States of America: Articles I and II	229
App. C	Constitutional Amendments That Affect the Presidency: Amendments XII, XX, XXII, and XXV	236
	Index	239

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No Place to Hide

Author: Robert OHarrow

In No Place to Hide, award-winning Washington Post reporter Robert O'Harrow, Jr., pulls back the curtain on an unsettling trend: the emergence of a data-driven surveillance society intent on giving us the conveniences and services we crave, like cell phones, discount cards, and electronic toll passes, while watching us more closely than ever before. He shows that since the September 11, 2001, terror attacks, the information industry giants have been enlisted as private intelligence services for homeland security. And at a time when companies routinely collect billions of details about nearly every American adult, No Place to Hide shines a bright light on the sorry state of information security, revealing how people can lose control of their privacy and identities at any moment.

Now with a new afterword that details the latest security breaches and the government's failing efforts to stop them, O'Harrow shows us that, in this new world of high-tech domestic intelligence, there is literally no place to hide.

As O'Harrow writes, "This book is all about you and your personal information -- and the story isn't pretty."