I heard about this book on my GMAT prep questions and I decided to read to practice, also because I was reading another book about American presidents for my Crisis Management class. Anyway, this was a very difficult reading. The level of English is advanced, very technical, like law language and all, talking about the constitution and History of the US. I confess that I skipped several parts of the book and didn’t pay attention to a good part of it. But what I got from the reading is that the main character of the American politics is descendent from the British politics. The idea of having a strong congress and balanced executive power comes from England and their parrlamentaristic system. This book describes the administration of the first four presidents and how they were not bipartisan, how they put the interests of the nation above the parties. The authorr defends the idea that the parties are not a good form of democracy because they conider only limited interests, not the interests of the whole nation. For the GMAT questions, this assumption does not consider that the first presidents were not very attached to the parties and more to the nation because they were the first presidents and the parties were still weak, but it is important to have variety off interests debated in order to have a better democracy, that is why it is important to have multiple parties to deffend the interest of diffferent layers of society.
Title: Presidents above party
Author: Ralph Ketcham
Year: 1987
Pages: 288
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