A timely July 6, 2007 book review in the New York Times praises "Unchecked and Unbalanced: Presidential Power in a Time of Terror":

"In their chilling and timely book Frederick A. O. Schwarz Jr., senior counsel at the Brennan Center for Justice at the New York University School of Law, and Aziz Z. Huq, who directs the Liberty and National Security Project at the Brennan Center, argue that the Bush administration’s “monarchist claims of executive power” are “unprecedented on this side of the North Atlantic,” and that its “executive unilateralism not only undermines the delicate balance of our Constitution, but also lessens our human liberties and hurts vital counterterrorism campaigns” by undermining America’s moral authority and standing in the world."

The NYT book review also notes:

"“Making the executive supreme makes the nation no safer — either from its enemies or its own worse impulses,” the authors conclude. “Indeed, the abiding genius of the Founding Generation was its rejection of the idea that unchecked unilateral power is ever properly vested in any one branch of government. Our government was framed ‘to control itself,’ as James Madison wrote in the Federalist Papers. ‘Ambition must be made to counteract ambition.’ Dividing powers between three branches, the Founders harnessed human passions in the cause of limited government. Madison, again writing in the Federalist Papers, provided the enduring explanation for this division of government: ‘The accumulation of all power, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, self-appointed, or elective, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny.’ ”

This book could not be more urgently necessary to fully understanding the horrifying implications of an American administration that has acted outside the law and our Bill of Rights.