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An essential guide to the presidential powers and limits of the Constitution, for anyone voting—or running—for our highest office.

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"Brettschneider's book, addressed to a presidential aspirant, begins with the question 'What do you need to know to be president?' The answer: 'Most of all, you need to know the U.S. Constitution.' This framing is one of the book's great virtues: It moves the focus away from the too-common and too-narrow question of what the courts might force a president to do in the name of the Constitution to the more capacious question of how a president herself should understand her constitutional role." -- The New York Times
"[The Oath and the Office] suggests a kind of optimism… that the Constitution embodies values, not just prohibitions and commands, and a constitutionally conscientious president has an affirmative duty to promote those values." -- The New York Times Book Review

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    A Paperback / softback by Corey Brettschneider

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      Publisher: WW Norton & Co
      Publication Date: 03/09/2019
      ISBN13: 9780393357288, 978-0393357288
      ISBN10: 0393357287
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      An essential guide to the presidential powers and limits of the Constitution, for anyone voting—or running—for our highest office.

      Trade Review
      "Brettschneider's book, addressed to a presidential aspirant, begins with the question 'What do you need to know to be president?' The answer: 'Most of all, you need to know the U.S. Constitution.' This framing is one of the book's great virtues: It moves the focus away from the too-common and too-narrow question of what the courts might force a president to do in the name of the Constitution to the more capacious question of how a president herself should understand her constitutional role." -- The New York Times
      "[The Oath and the Office] suggests a kind of optimism… that the Constitution embodies values, not just prohibitions and commands, and a constitutionally conscientious president has an affirmative duty to promote those values." -- The New York Times Book Review

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