Limits of Power: The Nixon and Ford Administrations

by John Robert Greene

Book Overview

This book argues the thesis that during the Nixon and Ford administrations America discovered the limits of its power, and that both presidents had, therefore, to adjust to new realities in both their domestic and their international activities. It was also the period when the American people first insisted on certain limits to presidential activity, and even forced a powerful president from office for that reason. Like the distinguished preceding...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0253326370
• ISBN13: 9780253326379
• Release Date: September 1992
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Length: 316 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.3" x 9.5"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher