Independent Counsel: The Law and the Investigations

by Charles A. Johnson

Book Overview

In this important new study, political scientists Charles A. Johnson and Danette Brickman offer a comprehensive and nonpartisan overview of the origins, evolution, functions, and eventual demise, in 1999, of the office of independent counsel.

The authors begin with a survey of the methods used to deal with charges of high-level misconduct in the years preceding the Watergate scandal that drove President Nixon from office in 1974. They examine...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1568025084
• ISBN13: 9781568025087
• Release Date: June 2001
• Publisher: CQ Press
• Length: 374 Pages
• Weight: 1.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 7.7" x 9.4"