Waging War: The Clash Between Presidents and Congress, 1776 to ISIS

From the earliest days of our nation, even before we were a nation, commanders in chief and Congress have competed over the constitutional power to declare and wage war. David J. Barron's "Waging War" takes us from the showdown between George Washington and the Constitutional Congress during the Revolutionary War to the face-offs between the presidents and the Congress in all the wars that followed. Future presidents will have to decide whether to embrace this remarkably enduring tradition of accommodation as the nature of wars changes radically from visible to shadowy.