San Antonio College Library

According to the author, the best environmental rules have come when Congress had to take responsibilities, or form states and localities rather than the EPA.

From the American Revolution to the Bush administration's new campaign against terror, examines how and when the United States, as a nation, decides to wage war.

Former Secretary of the Navy John Lehman here confronts one of the momentous issues of American history and the American present--the contending prerogatives of the president and Congress in making war. Lehman, a lively controversialist and scholar, examines the history of American military decision making from the Revolutionary period to the Gulf War. Whose power is it to declare war, to carry it out, and to sustain its course and bring it to an...