Reviews for Unchecked and Unbalanced: Presidential Power in a Time of Terror

The average rating for Unchecked and Unbalanced: Presidential Power in a Time of Terror based on 2 reviews is 4 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2016-03-04 00:00:00 Derrick Taylor This book details exactly why Bush and Cheney should be impeached, even if it's on their last day in office. The precedents set by their waging a war of aggression, warentless searches, torture and extraordinary rendition must be refuted, or they will lay around like at loaded gun pointed at the heart of our democracy. This administrations belief that it is exempt from oversight and unaccountable to the law is a path that leads straight to fascism. Read this book, the write your Congressional Representatives!

Review # 2 was written on 2013-12-06 00:00:00 Chris Callen I could read books upon books about the 2008 US Presidential Election. Two boundary breaking candidacies for the United States, wanting to succeed an incredibly unpopular President burdened with two wars and a recession. Having read Game Change by Heilemann and Halperins I was looking for a book that could rival theirs and this met the match. A journalists book rather than a historian so it is a detailed account instead of an analysis but there isn't anything wrong with that. As someone who was too young to appreciate how uplifting the Obama campaign was, especially in the time of Trump, reading this was almost some form of political escapism.