About the Authors
J. Malcolm Smith received his education at the U.S. Naval Academy, the University of Washington, and Stanford University. After three years as an officer in the Army during World War II, he received an A.B. degree from the University of Washington in 1946, and an M.A. (1948) and Ph.D. (1951) from Stanford University. He has combined academic and governmental service since he began his career as an instructor in political science at Stanford University in 1947. He has taught at Columbia University and the University of California. He organized the first World Affairs Council in Los Angeles, for the Foreign Policy Association and served as its first Executive Director from 1952-54.
Since coming to Washington, D. C., Mr. Smith served as a consultant to the Assistant Secretary of the Air Force (1957-58), and the President’s Commission on Civil Rights (1958-59) before joining the staff of Senator Thomas H. Kuchel of California as Assistant to the Minority Whip of the U.S. Senate.
Cornelius P. Cotter began his academic career at Stanford University in 1946 following three years as a Navy Seabee in the Pacific during the Second World War. He received his A.B. in 1949 from Stanford, and an M.P.A. (1951) and Ph.D. in government (1953) from Harvard University. He was a Sheldon Travelling Fellow from Harvard University to the University of London from 1951-52. After serving as Instructor in Government at Columbia University 1952-53, he returned to his alma mater, Stanford, in 1953 as an Assistant Professor of Political Science. He is currently on leave as an Associate Professor from Stanford University to serve as a special assistant to the Chairman of the Republican National Committee, Senator Thruston B. Morton. From December 1958 to December 1959, he served as the Citizenship Clearinghouse Fellow to the Republican National Committee.
The authors have contributed to the Western Political Quarterly, Stanford Law Review, the Journal of Politics, and the Midwestern Political Science Review. Currently they are collaborating on a textbook in American Government.
This study of presidential emergency powers was initiated by the authors in 1955 while teaching at Stanford and the University of California; revision and expansion were undertaken in Washington, D. C., during 1959 and 1960.