Just a quick note to alert y’all to the limited-time-only offer of a free e-book or pdf download of the complete Gene Healy book, “The Cult of the Presidency” at the Cato Institute website (a $ 15.95 value).
This is a fantastic book that details the shocking development and growth of executive power far beyond its original constitutional limits. In my own view (can’t yet say if Gene Healy bears me out), Calvin Coolidge was the last president to be aware of and feel constrained by those constitutional limits. And I’ll use this opportunity to also hype Gene’s own blog, where he offers “punditry by the pound” 🙂 (but doesn’t update frequently…the last entry is from Oct. 2009)
