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Examines the continuing constitutional problems of the rise and expansion of presidential warmaking power.

Table of Contents

Preface
Introduction
The Early Period
Lincoln as Commander in Chief
Age of Industrial Disorder through Wilson
Roosevelt and Total Emergency, I
Roosevelt and Total Emergency, II
Cold War Cases
Vietnam/Gulf War Cases
Constitutional Dictatorship and Constitutional Government
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index

About the Author

MARTIN S. SHEFFER taught for 29 years at Old Dominion University and Tuskegee University. Professor Sheffer's major areas of teaching and research are the American presidency, constitutional law and theory, and American political thought. He has published extensively in academic journals and law reviews, and he is the author of Presidential Power (1991) and God Versus Caesar (forthcoming).

Reviews

?[T]he book is well worth adopting for courses relating to law and society and U.S. foreign policy....[T]he author is to be commended for this fairly comprehensive portrait of a nation struggling with its most fundamental rights and the meaning of democracy.?-The Law and Politics Book Review

"ÝT¨he book is well worth adopting for courses relating to law and society and U.S. foreign policy....ÝT¨he author is to be commended for this fairly comprehensive portrait of a nation struggling with its most fundamental rights and the meaning of democracy."-The Law and Politics Book Review

"[T]he book is well worth adopting for courses relating to law and society and U.S. foreign policy....[T]he author is to be commended for this fairly comprehensive portrait of a nation struggling with its most fundamental rights and the meaning of democracy."-The Law and Politics Book Review