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Michael J. Gerhardt

The Forgotten Presidents

Their Untold Constitutional Legacy

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Their names linger in memory mainly as punch lines, synonyms for obscurity: Millard Fillmore, Chester Arthur, Calvin Coolidge. They conjure up not the White House so much as a decaying middle school somewhere in New Jersey. But many forgotten presidents, writes Michael J. Gerhardt, were not weak or ineffective. They boldly fought battles over constitutional principles that resonate today.Gerhardt, one of our leading legal experts, tells the story of The Forgotten Presidents. He surveys thirteen administrations in chronological order, from Martin Van Buren to Franklin Pierce to Jimmy Carter, distinguishing political failures from their constit… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-0-19-996780-3
  • EAN: 9780199967803
  • Produktnummer: 14822826
  • Verlag: Oxford University Press
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
  • Seitenangabe: 336 S.
  • Plattform: PDF
  • Masse: 3'682 KB
  • Abbildungen: 8 b/w halftones and 3 b/w charts

Über den Autor


Michael Gerhardt is Samuel Ashe Distinguished Professor of Constitutional Law at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. A nationally recognized authority on constitutional conflicts, he has testified in several Supreme Court confirmation hearings, and has published five books, including The Power of Precedent.

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