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Presidential Power

The unitary executive, in theory and practice

By MICHAEL NELSON

The most influential sentence in the most influential book about the presidency of the past 50 years is seven words long. "Presidential power," the political scientist Richard Neustadt declared in his 1960 book Presidential Power, "is the power to persuade."

Persuade whom? Chiefly...

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