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Listen in during this installment of Books of Our Time as
Dean Lawrence R. Velvel interviews Charlie Savage. Savage is a national reporter for the Boston
Globe and recently won a Pulitzer prize for his articles about signing
statements that were used by George W. Bush to negate legislation and extend
presidential power.
In this interview Savage will be discussing his new work, âTake
Over â The Return of the Imperial Presidency in This inversion of American
Democracyâ. This interview is the first
of two parts.
Savage describes in extraordinary detail Vice President Dick
Cheneyâs actions on 9-11, the expansion of presidential war authority and war
powers, and the high levels of executive involvement in illegal wiretaps and
torture.
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