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In Prosecuting the President, Andrew Coan offers a highly engaging look at the long, mostly forgotten history of special prosecutors in American politics. For more than a century, special prosecutors have struck fear into the hearts of presidents, who have the power to fire them at any time. How could this be, Coan asks? And how could the nation entrust such a high responsibility to such subordinate officials? With vivid storytelling and historical examples, Coan demonstrates that special prosecutors can do much to protect the rule of law under the right circumstances.  Â
Many have been thwarted by the formidable challenges of investigating a sitting president and his close associates; a few have abused the powers entrusted to them. But at their best, special prosecutors function as catalysts of democracy, channeling an unfocused popular will to safeguard the rule of law. By raising the visibility of high-level misconduct, they enable the American people to hold the president accountable. Yet, if a president thinks he can fire a special prosecutor without incurring serious political damage, he has the power to do so. Ultimately, Coan concludes, only the American people can decide whether the president is above the law.
Download Prosecuting the President How Special Prosecutors Hold Presidents Accountable and Protect the Rule of Law Audible Audio Edition Andrew Coan Christopher Grove Tantor Audio Books
"Step by step I was guided through the workings of the special prosecutors and independent councils of the past and was brought up to date on the current investigation. Professor Coan demonstrates an excellent command of the subject matter. The book was easy to read and his writing style helped to hold my interest. Highly recommend it!"
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Prosecuting the President How Special Prosecutors Hold Presidents Accountable and Protect the Rule of Law Audible Audio Edition Andrew Coan Christopher Grove Tantor Audio Books Reviews :
Prosecuting the President How Special Prosecutors Hold Presidents Accountable and Protect the Rule of Law Audible Audio Edition Andrew Coan Christopher Grove Tantor Audio Books Reviews
- Prosecuting the President manages to make the history of special prosecutors into a real page turner. Coan leaves his readers with a deeper understanding of why these stories are more relevant than ever today and why we all play a role in holding our leaders accountable.
- ...Not very useful. Boring. An insider would not find this useful historical information. Was expecting a lot more relevance to current politics
- Professor Coan's terrific new book about special prosecutors is a perfect blend of history, constitutional law, and modern politics. He explains (in lively fashion) how the proper balance between presidential powers and accountability to the rule of law has bedeviled past generations, not just our own. He then describes the nettlesome legal issues at stake when prosecutors do their work, including the peculiar substantive and political limits of special prosecutors' authority. The book is sure to become part of an enduring constitutional law canon, but also an accessible "go to" book for modern readers seeking to better understand what is at stake in the Mueller investigation. Finally, and importantly, it is a wise homily about how "we the people" share responsibility for how constitutional norms and presidential powers evolve. It should be on all Americans' bookshelves in this new year.
- I am a layman, not a lawyer or law professor. But I get it now. I understand the difference between a special prosecutor and an independent counsel. I know the critical moments in our country's history when special prosecutors have been appointed and why the Independent Counsel Statute was drawn up post-Watergate and died post-Clinton/Lewinsky. I am familiar with the moments of great drama when special prosecutors were fired only to immediately rise up again to complete the work at hand (Ã la Archibald Cox followed by Leon Jaworski who brought down the president by merely guiding others where to look).
Professor Coan has given me an understanding of the conditions under which special prosecutors work, under which Bob Mueller currently works. It is a tightrope performance. Mueller works his highwire magic on a rope held on the one side by the president and on the other by us, the American people. We, the people, are not unified in our intent but partisan with some of us jerking the rope about while others try to steady it. But the whole time during this tussle, we all look across the way as witnesses to what the President is doing with his end. It has been and will always be a drama that is highly partisan--at least it begins that way. It is a drama that is precarious not just for Meuller, but for our country because every such prosecution weighs in the balance our partisan instincts against our loyalty to the Constitution, our laws, and the institutions we have built over the last two hundred plus years. Professor Coan has helped me to see that, amazingly, such an arrangement can work and has in the past to greater and lesser degrees. Most importantly, he has helped me to see that it is not destined to work and to understand the possible consequences of failure if, when the work is done, partisans on either side are unable or unwilling to be clear-eyed in their assessment of the results. - Prosecuting the President is a really impressive book, merging artfully-told narrative history with a clear, insightful and important argument about law and politics. It’s written in a lively and engaging style that’s highly informative both to readers new to the subject and to legal experts. You can learn everything you need to know about special prosecutors by reading fascinating stories of special prosecutors in the recent and distant past. The last chapter is brilliantly pulls together the lessons of history in a pithy and concise, yet meaty analysis.
- Andrew Coan has done the impossible. His gripping book reads like a novel, but it also provides a brilliant, comprehensive account of the law and history of special prosecutors. What an enormous and timely contribution. Anyone who wants to know where the Mueller Investigation came from and what it can reasonably accomplish should read this book. But it is valuable for more than the current historical moment. Prosecuting the President offers a superb introduction to the confounding problem of holding the President accountable, surely a timeless topic.
I cannot remember the last time I read a nonfiction book on a legal subject in one sitting. Prosecuting the President should be required reading for the American public as the Mueller Investigation comes to its inevitable close. - Step by step I was guided through the workings of the special prosecutors and independent councils of the past and was brought up to date on the current investigation. Professor Coan demonstrates an excellent command of the subject matter. The book was easy to read and his writing style helped to hold my interest. Highly recommend it!
- I really enjoyed this book. Professor Coan does an excellent job detailing the history of the special prosecutor. First of all, I want to emphasize how clearly written and organized this is. That makes the reading such a pleasure. Second, the author really humanizes the special prosecutor role, by relaying a series of anecdotes that explain the difficult position that special prosecutors find themselves in. They are often in the crossfire of the president who they are investigating (and who can fire them), and attacking the reputation of a special prosecutor is often the main tool that a President who is under investigation will use to discredit it. Ultimately the message that Coan conveys is that holding the president accountable for misconduct or crimes is up to the American people, and not the special prosecutor. At best, the role of the special prosecutor is just to bring misconduct or crimes to light and let the public decide what to do. Really great, timely read, especially in this environment.
