| Book Review | The Michigan Historical Review, 34.1

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Charlie Savage. Takeover: The Return of the Imperial Presidency and the Subversion of American Democracy. New York: Little, Brown, 2007. Pp. 416. Bibliography. Index. Notes. Cloth, $25.99.

In a thorough analysis of the first six-plus years of the George W. Bush–Dick Cheney administration, Pulitzer-Prize-winning-journalist Charlie Savage provides historical explanation and contemporary evidence of how these years witnessed the expansion of presidential power. In his book, Takeover: The Return of the Imperial Presidency and the Subversion of American Democracy, Savage chronicles the rise of the modern imperial presidency (and the imperial vice presidency). Savage situates Bush and Cheney within Arthur Schlesinger's 1973 model of an imperial presidency, i.e., aggrandized presidential power gone awry particularly in the realm of war powers and foreign policy.

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