​Responding to students' requests, professors at UW Law School pulled together a course on presidential powers just months after the 2016 election. Now, Professors Lisa Manheim and Kathryn Watts have written a short and lucid book, "The Limits of Presidential Power: A Citizens' Guide to the Law," available on Amazon. The book explores the legal basis for presidential powers and steps Congress, citizens, and the courts can take to protect the rule of law. Among the topics the authors focus on are the various checks on presidential power, in both law and politics, and a close look at the powers in the presidential "toolkit."

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The Limits of Presidential Power
Thursday, February 1, 7 pm

$10 at the door
$8 for Folio Members and Students with ID
Complimentary wine reception with authors to follow
Books available for purchase and signing

 An artist who goes by the moniker Happy Toast has created a brilliant pop-version of Michael Woolf's blockbuster new book Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House. He created the book using 3DS Max modeling software then shared it via Twitter, one page at a time.

I hope there is a paper engineer out there ready to turn this gem into something we can hold.

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Here are a couple of books recently added to our shelves that beg for a little extra promotion during these times.

The Clinton Years : The Photographs of Robert McNeely New York : Callaway, 2000.

Robert McNeely was President Bill Clinton’s official photographer from 1992 to 1998 and had unfettered access to the political and private lives of President Clinton and First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton. McNeely shot 20,000 roles of film during this time and from that massive output 200+ images made the cut for this tribute. The result is an intimate, visual journey through the Clinton presidency.

One image, of Clinton touching the Dalai Lama’s hand while listening to him speak during a meeting, lead to the Chinese government seizing half the 18,000 copy print run! 

 Executive Order 9066: The Internment of 110,000 Japanese Americans
By Maisie & Richard Conrat with photographs by Dorothea Lange and others (MIT Press, 1972)

In 1942, President Franklin Roosevelt signed...