Agenda 2008 The American Presidency

VOLUME 33, NUMBER 3 - SEPTEMBER 2003

Special Issue: The Permanent War

Introduction - Louis Fisher

Articles

Presidential Greatness as an Attribute of Warmaking - David Gray Adler

Military Tribunals: A Sorry History - Louis Fisher

The War Power and Its Limits - Nancy Kassop

Deference and Defiance: The Shifting Rhythms of Executive-Legislative Relations in Foreign Policy - James M. Lindsay

National Security versus Civil Liberties - Nancy V. Baker

Presidential Authority to Detain "Enemy Combatants" - Jennifer K. Elsea

Organizing for Homeland Security - Harold C. Relyea

Features

The Contemporary Presidency: Rating the Presidents: A Tracking Study - Douglas A. Lonnstrom, Thomas O. Kelly, II

The Law: Walker v. Cheney: Legal Insulation of the Vice President from GAO Investigations - T.J. Halstead

The Polls: Searching for Determinism: A Comparative Assessment of First Term Approval Volatility, Buoyancy, and Polarization - Joshua G. Behr

Source Material: The White House and the Press: News Organizations as a Presidential Resource and as a Source of Pressure - Martha Joynt Kumar

Book Reviews

Tempered Strength: Studies in the Nature and Scope of Prudential Leadership, Ethan Fishman, ed. -

The Opposition Presidency: Leadership and the Constraints of History by David A. Crockett - Kevin Price

American Empire: The Realities and Consequences of U.S. Diplomacy by Andrew J. Bacevich - Kiki Caruson

The First Cold War: The Legacy of Woodrow Wilson in U.S.-Soviet Relations by Donald E. Davis and Eugene P. Trani - Frank Ninkovich

The Clinton Wars: The Constitution, Congress, and War Powers by Ryan C. Hendrickson - Gordon Silverstein

Popular Justice: Presidential Prestige and Executive Success in the Supreme Court by Jeff Yates - Wendy L. Martinek

Organizing the Presidency, third edition, by Stephen Hess - MaryAnne Borrelli

Scandal Proof: Do Ethics Laws Make Government Ethical? by G. Calvin Mackenzie - Raymond Cox, III

Pulp Politics: How Political Advertising Tells the Stories of American Politics by Glenn W. Richardson, Jr. - Molly W. Andolina

Presidential Speechwriting: From the New Deal to the Reagan Revolution and Beyond, Kurt Ritter and Martin Medhurst, eds. - Carol Gelderman

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