Book Review: Executive Privilege: A Constitutional Myth

Abstract

Were the author of Executive Privilege: A Constitutional Myth an academic obscurity tilling the fields of legal history, a reviewer might well resolve the conflict between magnanimity and candor in favor of the former. But Raoul Berger is a public figure, extolled in the media as an eminent authority and relied upon as the definitive scholar on questions of compelling public concern. What he writes is front page news in the New York Times, the subject of long stories in weekly newsmagazines and recommended by reviewers as important reading. This reader dissents. Executive Privilege: A Constitutional Myth is so inadequate as to be almost beside the point.