Download or read book The American Kings written by Robert Kimball Shinkoskey and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2014-03-04 with total page 455 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An inevitable feature of democratic governments is the tendency of their chief executives to pursue domestic policies and foreign wars without the consent of the people. America's own presidents have studiously ignored Congress and the states and have begun to act like all-powerful kings. U.S. presidents make wild promises to get elected, use temporary crises to expand personal power, publish propaganda to divert attention away from their actions, pass out benefits to favored sections of the population in order to get re-elected, and suppress segments of the population who disagree with them. This book chronicles the story of America's lapse into tyranny at the hands of some of its best-known presidents.