Takeover: The Return of the Imperial Presidency and the Subversion of American Democracy

Praised everywhere as a stunning work of reportage, TAKEOVER lays bare a hidden agenda, three decades in the making, to allow the White House to wield enormous powers, unchecked by Congres or the courts--an agenda that links warrantless wiretapping and Bush's judicial nominees, torture and Cheney's energy task force, the faith-based initiative and the imprisonment of citizens without trial. TAKEOVER tells the story of how a group of true believers, led by Cheney, set out to establish near-monarchical executive powers that, in the words of one conservative critic, "will lie around like a loaded weapon" for any future president.

Author: Charlie Savage
Publisher: Back Bay Books
Published: 04/01/2008
Pages: 448
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.86lbs
Size: 8.27h x 5.61w x 1.19d
ISBN: 9780316118057

Review Citation(s):
New York Times Book Review 06/08/2008 pg. 28
Reference and Research Bk News 11/01/2008 pg. 66

About the Author
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Charlie Savage is a Washington correspondent for the New York Times and has been covering post-9/11 legal policy issues since 2003. A native of Fort Wayne, Indiana, he graduated from Harvard College and holds a master's degree from Yale Law School. His first book, Takeover, a bestselling and award-winning account of the Bush-Cheney administration's efforts to expand presidential power, was named one of the best works of 2007 by the Washington Post, Slate, and Esquire.