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On February 19, 1942, following the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor and Japanese Army successes in the Pacific, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signed a fa

Scholars and citizens alike have endlessly debated the proper limits of presidential action within our democracy. In this revised and expanded edition, noted sc

When a leased Boeing 727 is violently hijacked from Angola and flown to parts unknown, the President turns to an outsider—Major Carlos Guillermo Castillo—fo

Cooper defines the different forms these powers take--executive orders, presidential memoranda, proclamations, national security directives, and signing stateme

Every president has had a unique and complicated relationship with the intelligence community. While some have been coolly distant, even adversarial, others hav