Impeachment: A Handbook (Yale Fastback Series)

Impeachment: A Handbook (Yale Fastback Series)

<div><div><p>In a classic guide to presidential impeachment, Charles L. Black clarifies the issues and questions that surround this controversial subject. With a new foreword by constitutional expert Akhil Reed Amar, this authoritative book is essential reading for every concerned citizen.</p><p>"The best essay written on the subject."—Jeffrey Rosen, <I>New Republic</I></p><p>"[Black's] timely volume clearly and lucidly covers everything from what constitutes "high crimes and misdemeanors" to the scope of Executive privilege. . . . The measure of his book's achievement is that it tells the reader not what to think but what to think about."—<I>Time</I></p><p>"A citizen's guide to impeachment. . . . Elegantly written, lucid, intelligent, and comprehensive."—Mary Ann Gale, <I>New York Times Book Review</I></p><p>"Black's survey is a dispassionate, invaluable beam of light. . . . This everyman's guide to impeachment outlines the process leading to the removal of a President by Congress, places it in historical perspective, [and] discusses the conundrums that spring from it. . . . It provides a major contribution to sanity in our government."—<I>Newsweek</I></p><p>"A model of how so serious an act of state should be approached."—<I>Wall Street Journal</I></p><p> </p></div></div>