Takeover

Critical Praise

"Charlie Savage's Takeover reads like a thriller because it is one: The story of Dick Cheney and his hapless boss pushing the presidency off its constitutional foundation."
—John W. Dean, former Nixon White House Counsel and author of Worse than Watergate

"Time was, conservatives relished their role as America's designated worriers about concentrated and unchecked government power, especially in the uniquely potent office of the presidency. As Charlie Savage demonstrates, there are large new reasons for worrying. With meticulous reporting and lucid explanations of audacious theories invented to justify novel presidential powers, Savage identifies a growing, and dangerous, constitutional imbalance."
—George F. Will, syndicated columnist

"Until Takeover, no one has pieced together in such readable prose the systematic effort at constitutional revolution pressed by the Bush-Cheney Administration since September 11. You will not put this book down until Savage snaps the last piece of the puzzle into place."
—Harold Hongju Koh, Dean, Yale Law School and former Assistant Secretary of State for Human Rights

"Charlie Savage is one of America's best reporters, and this is an incredibly important book. It's absolutely must reading for anybody who cares about preserving our constitutional system of government and understanding how seriously that system has been threatened."
—Mickey Edwards, former Republican Congressman and former national chairman, American Conservative Union

"A sobering and significant assessment of what the Bush-Cheney administration has done to the system of checks and balances so crucial to our constitutional democracy."
—Laurence H. Tribe, Carl M. Loeb University Professor, Harvard Law School

"Every American concerned about the erosion of checks and balances in our constitutional system should read this book—and weep."
—Norman J. Ornstein, Resident Scholar, American Enterprise Institute

"A sober warning of the Bush administration's tragic overreaction to the undoubted perils of our troubled age."
—Richard A. Epstein, James Parker Hall Distinguished Service Professor of Law, The University of Chicago Law School and Peter and Kirsten Bedford Senior Fellow, The Hoover Institution.