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Author Graham, Mary, 1944- author.

Title Presidents' secrets : the use and abuse of hidden power / Mary Graham.

Publication Info. New Haven : Yale University Press, [2017]
©2017.

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 Avon Free Public Library - Adult Department  352.3 GRAHAM    Check Shelf
 Farmington, Main Library - Adult Department  352.3 GRA    Check Shelf
 New Britain, Main Library - Non Fiction  352.3 GRA    Check Shelf
Description x, 258 pages ; 25 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-244) and index.
Contents Introduction -- The constitutional convention: The president's limited power -- George Washington: A culture of openness -- Woodrow Wilson: A foundation for secret government -- Harry Truman: Institutional secrecy -- Lyndon Johnson: Stealth attacks on openness -- Gerald Ford: A time of reckoning -- George W. Bush: A test of the limits -- Barack Obama: A twenty-first-century bargain? -- Conclusion.
Subject Executive privilege (Government information) -- United States.
Official secrets -- United States.
Presidents -- United States -- Decision making.
Freedom of information -- United States.
HISTORY / United States.
POLITICAL SCIENCE / American Government / Executive Branch.
POLITICAL SCIENCE / American Government / National.
POLITICAL SCIENCE / Civil Rights.
Executive privilege (Government information) (OCoLC)fst00917869
Freedom of information. (OCoLC)fst00934017
Official secrets. (OCoLC)fst01044261
Presidents -- Decision making. (OCoLC)fst01075743
United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
ISBN 0300223749
9780300223743
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