Gene Healy, The Cult of the Presidency: America’s Dangerous Devotion to Executive Power (Washington, DC: Cato Institute, 2008)   “Taken by and large,”” Edward Corwin wrote, “”the history of the presidency is a history of aggrandizement, but the story is a highly discontinuous one.””[1] After reading Gene Healy’s work, there is good reason to wonder … Continue reading The Presidency: A Realistic Reappraisal