Ken Gormley is President and Professor of Law at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh. He is the award-winning author of the New York Times best seller The Death of American Virtue: Clinton vs. Starr, and Archibald Cox: Conscience of a Nation.
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"Ken Gormley has connected the Constitutional dots brilliantly, demonstrating the immense concentration of power in the chief executive and the different, often contradictory, ways it has been used or misused. The book is a class in Constitutional Law all by itself. In several crucial ways this is what the 2016 race for the White House was about-who has precisely what power, who shares it, how is it going to be exercised, and what, if any, are its limits." -- Bob Woodward, Associate Editor, the Washington Post "Gormley and his impressive roster of collaborators have abundantly delivered on the promise of this book's title. The balance between presidential power and presidential accountability is indeed a living history . . . Puts present-day controversies in context and shows how living history isn't about legal abstractions-it is about ambition, conflict, and the consequences and limits of presidential power." -- John Harris, Politico "Everything you ever wanted to know about the Supreme Court and the Presidency but were afraid to ask." -- Nina Totenberg, correspondent for NPR