All American presidents, past and present, have cared deeply about power–acquiring, protecting, and expanding it. While individual presidents obviously have other concerns, such as shaping policy or building a legacy…

Offers evidence on Congress’ influence on presidential war powers. This book concludes that presidents are systematically less likely to exercise military force when their partisan opponents retain control of Congress.

The thesis of this book is that the principal cause of the prolonged structural crisis which affected the western world steel industry after 1974 was pervasive intervention by governments in…