The Presidents and the People
€18.90
Product Information
| ISBN | 9781324110880 |
|---|---|
| Publisher | WW Norton & Co |
| Publishing Date | 16/09/2025 |
| Price (excl. tax) | €17.83 |
| Tax | €1.07 |
| Price (incl. tax) | €18.90 |
| Availability | 13 units in external warehouse |
Product Description
Imagine an American president who imprisoned critics, spread a culture of white supremacy and tried to upend the law so that he could commit crimes with impunity. In this propulsive and eminently readable history, Corey Brettschneider provides a thoroughly researched account of assaults on democracy by not one such president but five: John Adams, James Buchanan, Andrew Johnson, Woodrow Wilson and Richard Nixon. Brettschneider shows that these presidents didn’t have the last word; citizen movements brought the United States back from the precipice by appealing to a democratic understanding of the Constitution and pressuring subsequent reform-minded presidents to realise the promise of “We the People”. This is a book about citizens—Frederick Douglass, Ida B. Wells, Daniel Ellsberg and more—who fought back against presidential abuses of power and give hope about the possibilities of restoring democracy.