Theodore and Woodrow
How Two American Presidents Destroyed Constitutional Freedom
Two presidents remembered as great reformers, recast here as the men who taught Washington to ignore its own constitutional limits.
Two presidents usually ranked among the great are treated here as architects of constitutional decline. Napolitano argues that Roosevelt’s expansion of executive power and Wilson’s wartime suppression of dissent together normalised a federal government far larger than the framers allowed. It is a revisionist case, argued from the bench rather than the archive, and it is unsparing about both men.
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