Reassessing the Presidency : The Rise of the Govt State and the Decline of Freedom

This outstanding quantity is the primary full-scale revision of the official historical past of the U.S. govt state. It traces the development of energy exercised by American presidents from the early American Republican as much as the eventual actuality of the power-hungry Caesars which later seem as president in American historical past. Contributors study the same old judgments of the historic career to indicate the ugly aspect of supposed presidential greatness.

The mission inherent on this enterprise is to find out how the presidency degenerated into the workplace of American Caesar. Did the character of the person who held the workplace corrupt it, or did the ability of the workplace, because it advanced, corrupt the person? Or was it a mix of the 2? Was there an excessive amount of latent energy within the unique creation of the workplace because the Anti-Federalists claimed? Or was the ability externally created and added to the place by corrupt or misguided males?

Contributors embody George Bittlingmayer, John V. Denson, Marshall L. DeRosa, Thomas J. DiLorenzo, Lowell Gallaway, Richard M. Gamble, David Gordon, Paul Gottfried, Randall G. Holcombe, Hans-Hermann Hoppe, Jeffrey Rogers Hummel, Michael Levin, Yuri N. Maltsev, William Marina, Joseph Salerno, Barry Simpson, Joseph Stromberg, H. Arthur Scott Trask, Richard Vedder, and Clyde Wilson.