About the Author

John Yoo is a professor of law at the University of California at Berkeley School of Law, where he has taught since 1993. From 2001-2003, he served as a deputy assistant attorney general in the Office of Legal Counsel of the U.S. Department of Justice, where he worked on issues involving foreign affairs, national security, and the separation of powers. He served as general counsel of the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee from 1995-96, where he advised on constitutional issues and judicial nominations. Professor Yoo received his B.A., summa cum laude, in American history from Harvard University and his J.D. from Yale Law School. He was a visiting professor at the University of Chicago Law School in 2003 and at the Free University of Amsterdam in 1998. In 2006, Professor Yoo held the Distinguished Fulbright Chair in Law at the University of Trento (Italy). Professor Yoo has published many articles on foreign affairs, national security, and constitutional law. He is the author of The Powers of War and Peace: Foreign Affairs and the Constitution after 9/11 (University of Chicago Press, 2005) and War by Other Means: An Insider's Account of the War on Terror (Atlantic Monthly Press, 2006). Crisis and Command completes his trilogy on the controversies provoked by the September 11th attacks of 2001.

Reviews

..".an eloquent, fact-laden history of audacious power grabs by American presidents going back to George Washington." -- Deborah Solomon, New York Times Magazine

..".Yoo recognizes Madison's truth, for he acknowledges 'the importance of practice as a source of constitutional meaning, ' and he devotes most of his book to analyzing presidential practice and the steady growth of presidential power over the course of American history." -- The New Republic

..".Yoo's robust view of presidential power is well-known, any history of the presidency written by him might initially seem suspect and agenda driven. He realizes only too well that his book is apt to be read "as a brief for the Bush administration's exercise of executive authority in the war on terrorism." But if it is a brief for an expansive understanding of presidential authority, it is a remarkably persuasive one." --The National Interest

..".Crisis and Command is a rich, subtle, and thoughtful work--one that will benefit th