Download or read book The Supreme Court and the Commander in Chief written by Clinton Rossiter and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 1976 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A concise treatment of presidential power by a brilliant writer is once again made available with the reissue of this book, first published in 1951. The book is brought superbly up to date by one of Rossiter's former students, Richard P. Longaker. New material covers vital events of the past twenty-five years, including the steel seizure and the dispatch of troops to Korea under Truman, civil disturbances and the Gulf of Tonkin episode under Johnson, the Pentagon Papers case, and the confrontation between Nixon and the Supreme Court.