Posted on 26 October 2006, by Anna
John Nichols in the Bay Area
With “The Genius of Impeachment: The Founders’ Cure for Royalism, “John Nichols has produced a masterpiece that should be required reading in every high school and college in the United States.
Unlike several recently published books, this is not an argument for impeaching Bush, not a list of charges, not a rough draft of articles of impeachment. Rather, “Genius” is a history and portrait of the practice of impeachment, a practice that has been used far longer, far more often, and with far greater importance than most of us imagine.
Nichols makes an overwhelming case that the regular use of
impeachment is necessary for the survival of our constitutional
government, that impeachment proceedings usually have beneficial consequences even if unsuccessful, that promotion of impeachment is not nearly as politically risky as is failure to do so when it is merited, that a move to impeach Bush in the U.S. House would be greeted with enthusiastic public support, and that failure to impeach Bush would contribute to an ongoing dangerous expansion of executive power from which our system of government might not recover.
Meet and Hear John Nichols:
November 1st – 12:30 pm
Stacey’s Bookstore, San Francisco
San Francisco
581 Market Street
(415) 421-4687 or (800) 926-6511
November 1st – 7pm
Modern Times with New College, San Francisco
Modern Times Bookstore
888 Valencia Street
San Francisco
November 2nd – 1pm
Book Passage, Corte Madera, CA
Book Passage Bookstore in Corte Madera
51 Tamal Vista Blvd.
Corte Madera
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