TY  - BOOK
AU  - Cooper,Phillip J.
TI  - By order of the president: the use and abuse of executive direct action 
T2  - Studies in government and public policy
SN  - 9780700620111 (hardback : alk. paper)
AV  - KF5053 .C578 2014
U1  - 342.73/066 23
PY  - 2014///]
CY  - Lawrence, Kansas
PB  - University Press of Kansas
KW  - Executive orders
KW  - United States
KW  - History
KW  - Executive power
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE / Government / Executive Branch
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE / Government / National
KW  - HISTORY / United States / 20th Century
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 499-508) and index; The tools of presidential direct administration -- Executive orders : directing the executive branch -- Executive orders : strategies, tactics, and political realities -- Presidential memoranda : executive orders by another name -- Presidential proclamations : rule by decree -- National security directives : secret orders both foreign and domestic -- Executive agreements : when is a treaty not a treaty? -- Presidential signing statements : a different kind of line-item veto -- Presidential direct action and the Washington rules : the dangers of power tools
N2  - "Scholars and citizens alike have endlessly debated the proper limits of presidential action and only gradually begun to understand the nature of the president's special powers and their impact on American life. In this new and much-expanded edition of his path-breaking study, Phillip Cooper again offers a comprehensive and cogent guide to these powers and shows how presidents from George Washington to Barack Obama have used and abused them in trying to realize their visions for the nation"--
ER  -