The Presidents and the People – Five Leaders Who Threatened Democracy and the Citizens Who Fought to Defend It - Corey Brettschneider

Imagine an American president who imprisoned critics, spread a culture of white supremacy and tried to upend the law so that he could commit crimes with impunity. In this propulsive and eminently readable history, Corey Brettschneider provides a thoroughly researched account of assaults on democracy by not one such president but five: John Adams, James Buchanan, Andrew Johnson, Woodrow Wilson and Richard Nixon. Brettschneider shows that these presidents didn’t have the last word; citizen movements... Zobrazit více