Beer, Samuel. "The Democratic Temper." The New Republic 185 (Nov. 11, 1981): 30-33.

“This brilliant book should have been published a year ago. In the last days of the Carter Administration it did seem as if our political institutions suffered from a deepening erosion of authority. The leading exhibit was an enfeebled presidency whose decline had continued from the 1960s to the 1970s, regardless of party or person. Only last November Gerald Ford drew attention to the weakness of the office, calling it “imperiled not imperial.” There was serious talk that constitutional reform was needed to restore the position of the presidency in government and politics.”

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