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In 1789, the Founding Fathers came up with a system of checks and balances to keep kingly powers out of the hands of American presidents. But in the 1970s and '80s, a faction of Republican loyalists, outraged by the fall of the imperial presidency after Watergate and the Vietnam War, abandoned conservatives' traditional suspicion of concentrated government power. These men hatched a plot that would allow the White House to return to, or even surpass, the virtually unchecked powers that Richard Nixon had briefly tried to wield. Congress would be defanged, and the commander-in-chief would be able to assert a unilateral dominance both at home and abroad.
Today, this plot is coming to fruition. As Takeover reveals, the Bush-Cheney administration has succeeded in seizing vast powers for the presidency by throwing off many of the restraints placed upon it by Congress, the courts, and the Constitution. This timely book unveils the secret machinations behind the headlines, explaining the links between warrantless wiretapping and the President Bush's Supreme Court nominees, between the torture debate and the secrecy surrounding Vice President Cheney's energy task force, and between the "faith-based initiative" and the holding of US citizens without trial as "enemy combatants." It tells, for the first time, the full story of a hidden agenda three decades in the making, laying out how a group of true believers set out to establish monarchical executive powers that, in the words of one conservative critic, "will lie around like a loaded weapon" ready to be picked up by any future president.

Brilliantly reported and deftly told, Takeover is a searing investigation into how the constitutional balance of our democracy is in danger of being permanently altered. For anyone who cares about America's past, present, and future, it is essential reading.

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"Charlie Savage's Takeover reads like a thriller because it is one: The story of Dick Cheney and his hapless boss pushing the presidency off its constitutional foundation."--John W. Dean, former Nixon White House Counsel and author of Worse than Watergate

"Time was, conservatives relished their role as America's designated worriers about concentrated and unchecked government power, especially in the uniquely potent office of the presidency. As Charlie Savage demonstrates, there are large new reasons for worrying. With meticulous reporting and lucid explanations of audacious theories invented to justify novel presidential powers, Savage identifies a growing, and dangerous, constitutional imbalance."--George F. Will, syndicated columnist



"Until Takeover, no one has pieced together in such readable prose the systematic effort at constitutional revolution pressed by the Bush-Cheney Administration since September 11. You will not put this book down until Savage snaps the last piece of the puzzle into place."--Harold Hongju Koh, Dean, Yale Law School and former Assistant Secretary of State for Human Rights



"Charlie Savage is one of America's best reporters, and this is an incredibly important book. It's absolutely must reading for anybody who cares about preserving our constitutional system of government and understanding how seriously that system has been threatened."--Mickey Edwards, former Republican Congressman and former national chairman, American Conservative Union



"A sobering and significant assessment of what the Bush-Cheney administration has done to the system of checks and balances so crucial to our constitutional democracy."--Laurence H. Tribe, Carl M. Loeb University Professor, Harvard Law School



"Every American concerned about the erosion of checks and balances in our constitutional system should read this book--and weep."--Norman J. Ornstein, Resident Scholar, American Enterprise Institute



"A sober warning of the Bush administration's tragic overreaction to the undoubted perils of our troubled age."--Richard A. Epstein, James Parker Hall Distinguished Service Professor of Law, The University of Chicago Law School and Peter and Kirsten Bedford Senior Fellow, The Hoover Institution.

About the Author:
Winner of the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting, Charlie Savage covers national legal affairs for The Boston Globe. He has written extensively about President Bush's signing statements and other White House efforts to expand executive power. Originally from Fort Wayne, Indiana, he graduated summa cum laude from Harvard College and holds a master's degree from Yale Law School. He lives in Washington, DC, with his wife, journalist Luiza Ch. Savage, and their son.

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  • PublisherLittle, Brown and Company
  • Publication date2007
  • ISBN 10 0316118044
  • ISBN 13 9780316118040
  • BindingHardcover
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