The American Presidency

CONTENTS OF CURRICULUM UNIT 12.03.08

  1. Unit Guide
  1. Overview
  2. Rationale
  3. Objectives
  4. Essential Questions
  5. Background to War Powers
  6. Strategies
  7. Activities
  8. Works Cited
  9. Appendix A
  10. Endnotes

The American President and War Powers: Combatting views

Sonia M. Henze

Published September 2012

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Works Cited

Brewer, Garry D., and Martin Shubik. The war game. Cambridge, Mass.: The Rand Corporation , 1979.

Brinkley, David. "Lyndon Johnson." In Brinkley's beat: people, places, and events that shaped my time. New York: Knopf, 2003. 55-66.

Dallek, Robert. Hail to the chief: the making and unmaking of American presidents. New York: Hyperion, 1996.

Fisher, Louis. Constitutional conflicts between Congress and the President. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1985.

Fisher, Louis. Presidential war power. Lawrence, Kan.: University Press of Kansas, 2004.

Hess, Gary R.. Presidential decisions for war: Korea, Vietnam, the Persian Gulf, and Iraq. 2nd ed. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009.

Irons, Peter H.. War powers: how the imperial presidency hijacked the Constitution. New York: Metropolitan Books, 2005.

Monk, Linda R.. The words we live by: your annotated guide to the constitution. A Stonesong Press book 1st ed. New York: Hyperion, 2003.

Morris, Errol, and Robert S McNamara. The fog of war. S.l.: Columbia Tristar Home Entertainment, 2004.

Nelson, Michael. The evolving presidency: landmark documents, 1787-2008. 3rd ed. Washington, D.C.: CQ Press, 2008.

Silkenat, James R., and Mark R. Shulman. The imperial presidency and the consequences of 9/11: lawyers react to the global war on terrorism. Westport, CT: Praeger Security International, 2007.

Stern, Gary M., and Morton H. Halperin. "Constitutional Constraints: The War Clause." In The US constitution and the power to go to war: historical and current perspectives. Westport (Conn.): Greenwood, 1994. p.29-54.

Westerfield, Donald L.. War powers: the president, the Congress, and the question of war. Westport, Conn.: Praeger, 1996.

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