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The single best account of the current executive branch's grab for power, with a new introduction on recent developments

The abuses of the Bush White House—old news? Far from it. The work of the next administration will be to undo the damage that's been done, and this book will be the guide. As chief counsel to the Church Committee investigating executive branch abuses in the early 1970s, Fritz Schwarz is uniquely qualified to comment on the current administration's power grab.

Called a "masterly account of the roots of contemporary executive over-reaching" by former vice president Walter Mondale, Unchecked and Unbalanced puts our current political situation in historical perspective. A new introduction written for this paperback edition looks at the steps a new administration will need to take to restore the checks and balances of American government.

Schwarz (whom Bob Herbert of the New York Times described as one of America's "quiet patriots") and his co-author Aziz Huq, director of the Liberty and National Security Project at the Brennan Center, find today's abuses of a different, more frightening magnitude than those of the past. Whereas previous presidents and their staffs have sought to hide actions outside the law, this administration has instead sought publicly to justify NSA domestic spying, torture, rendition, and black sites through contorted and flawed legal reasoning ultimately designed to create a monarchical presidency..
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Unchecked Time is a story of social change and the unforeseen results of time travel. The discovery of time travel by physics professor Dr. James Gordon in 2133 creates a furious religious and political debate about its use. Amidst the controversy, Dr. Gordon, his daughter Maria and lab assistant Richard leap back in time to change the course of the American urban and population landscape. From post World War II Chicago to the Sixties and beyond, our trio race against time to create a new world free of sprawl and population excesses..
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Welcome to “Poker Unchecked”, the first book written by Russ Georgiev, a World Class Professional poker player who has spent 40+ years in the poker trenches This book is for all players who want to play better poker but have never found a book that really teaches them how to win. Here is the 'straight talk' you require to becoming a better player. “Poker Unchecked” will show you how to become a winning, and more importantly, a profitable poker player. It gives you the specifics – how you can win today, starting hand requirements, proper betting amounts, how and when to bluff, and exercises to improve your game. It tells you how to Play AK and Heads-up. And you get a little history about poker when it made Gardena, CA the poker capital of the world. Do you want to know if TV is portraying the game accurately? And what about those poker-playing robots the online sites use as props? How do scammers cheat you? Get the answers. Who is Russ Georgiev? He is a high stakes professional who started as "Seattle Russ" and is well known in the Brick & Mortar poker worlds of Europe and the United States. He's been invited to private games from Beverly Hills to Monte Carlo. And he is well versed in online play and your favorite sites. Get his insights in “Poker Unchecked”..
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The environmental impacts of sprawling development have been well documented, but few comprehensive studies have examined its economic costs. In 1996, a team of experts undertook a multi-year study designed to provide quantitative measures of the costs and benefits of different forms of growth. Sprawl Costs presents a concise and readable summary of the results of that study.

The authors analyze the extent of sprawl, define an alternative, more compact form of growth, project the magnitude and location of future growth, and compare what the total costs of those two forms of growth would be if each was applied throughout the nation. They analyze the likely effects of continued sprawl, consider policy options, and discuss examples of how more compact growth would compare with sprawl in particular regions. Finally, they evaluate whether compact growth is likely to produce the benefits claimed by its advocates.

The book represents a comprehensive and objective analysis of the costs and benefits of different approaches to growth, and gives decision-makers and others concerned with planning and land use realistic and useful data on the implications of various options and policies.

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When a B-29 bomber exploded over Georgia in 1948, the victims' families were denied access to crucial information relating to the accident because the federal government claimed such access would endanger national security. When the Supreme Court upheld that claim in United States v. Reynolds (1953), a new precedent was established, allowing the executive branch to assert an all-encompassing "state secret privilege" as a basis for withholding information from public scrutiny. For more than fifty years, that decision has been viewed with apprehension by a great many scholars and citizens, who feel it has fostered a dangerous cult of secrecy and undermined accountability by declaring that only the executive branch can be trusted with sensitive material. Now Louis Fisher, America's leading authority on separation of powers, recounts the story of Reynolds to reassess its lasting impact on our society. Taking us back to a time when Americans were preoccupied with protecting military secrets from the Red Menace, Fisher shows how this case produced fundamental distortions in the judicial process that have increased with each passing year. He critiques the government's arguments in Reynolds from district court to Supreme Court and dissects the landmark opinion authored by Chief Justice Fred Vinson. He also explains how Reynolds affected subsequent battles over executive-held information both within the courts - the Pentagon Papers, the Watergate tapes - and between Congress and the president, as exemplified by the Freedom of Information Act and the much-debated Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. Drawing upon declassified documents and interviews with surviving family members, he weaves a compelling story - one that took a new twist when it was finally discovered that the information originally withheld was not sensitive at all but rather revealed Air Force negligence. Especially in light of the Bush administration's continued use of Reynolds to justify its post-9/11 claims to unilateral authority, Fisher's work could not be more timely. His book is essential reading for all who question presidential authority - and should be required reading for all who don't..
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A new history and evaluation of the "imperial presidency "

Recent presidents have exploited the power of the American presidency more fully than their predecessors—and with greater consequence than the framers of the Constitution anticipated.

This book, in the tradition of Arthur Schlesinger's great work The Imperial Presidency (1973), explores how American presidents—especially those of the past three decades—have increased the power of the presidency at the expense of democracy. Matthew Crenson and Benjamin Ginsberg provide a fascinating history of this trend, showing that the expansion of presidential power dates back over one hundred years. Presidential Power also looks beyond the president's actions in the realm of foreign policy to consider other, more hidden, means that presidents have used to institutionalize the power of the executive branch..
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Title: Shortage of inspectors blasted; Lazarenko outraged as many neglected buildings will go unchecked.(City)
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Date: January 5, 2008
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This digital document is an article from National Catholic Reporter, published by Thomson Gale on July 28, 2006. The length of the article is 906 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Cattle car a symbol of unchecked hatred.(DESTINATIONS)
Author: Patricia Lefevere
Publication:National Catholic Reporter (Magazine/Journal)
Date: July 28, 2006
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Volume: 42 Issue: 35 Page: 10a(1)

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