The Limits of Power: The Nixon and Ford Administrations

This book argues the thesis that during the Nixon and Ford administrations America discovered the limits of its power, and that both presidents had, therefore, to adjust to new realities in both their domestic and their international activities. It was also the period when the American people first insisted on certain limits to presidential activity, and even forced a powerful president from office for that reason. Like the distinguished preceding volumes in this series by Charles Alexander on Eisenhower and Jim Heath on the Kennedy-Johnson years, John Greene's book provides a balanced historical assessment of the Nixon and Ford administrations. The volume forcuses on both domestic and foreign policy and presents one of the first true historical judgments about these administrations.

Author: John Robert Greene
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 09/22/1992
Pages: 316
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.37lbs
Size: 9.50h x 6.30w x 1.20d
ISBN: 9780253326379

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 07/06/1992