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 | Takeover: The Return of the Imperial Presidency and the Subversion of American Democracy (Reprint Edition) by Charlie Savage Paperback, 448 Pages, Published 2008 ISBN-10: 0-316-11805-2 / 0316118052 ISBN-13: 978-0-316-11805-7 / 9780316118057 In 1789, the Founding Fathers came up with a system of checks and balances to keep kingly powers out of the hands of American presidents. But in the 1970s and '80s, a faction of Republican loyalists, outraged by the fall of the imperial presidency after Watergate and the Vietnam War, abandoned conse | |