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ISBN: 9780691158365 - Presidential Leadership and the Creation of the American Era Bestseller Presidential Leadership and the Creation of the American Era
Joseph S Nye

ISBN10: 0691158363  ISBN13: 9780691158365
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 26 May 2013
OThis timely book examines the impact of presidential leadership on the emergence and endurance of American global primacy. Nye is judicious, makes a plausible argument about each president he considers, and cuts through confusion and partisanship . More
ISBN: 9780691151991 - Presidents and the Dissolution of the Union Presidents and the Dissolution of the Union
Fred I Greenstein

ISBN10: 0691151997  ISBN13: 9780691151991
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 21 May 2013
The United States witnessed an unprecedented failure of its political system in the mid-nineteenth century, resulting in a disastrous civil war that claimed the lives of an estimated 750,000 Americans. In his other acclaimed books about the... More
ISBN: 9780226023151 - Political Tone Political Tone
Roderick P Hart, Jay P Childers, Colene J Lind

ISBN10: 022602315X  ISBN13: 9780226023151
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press University of Chicago Press
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 10 May 2013
How did Bill Clinton's clever dexterity help him recover from the Monica Lewinsky scandal? How did Barack Obama draw on his experience as a talented community activist to overcome his inexperience as a national leader? This title deals with these... More
ISBN: 9780307718037 - Confront and Conceal Confront and Conceal
David E Sanger

ISBN10: 0307718034  ISBN13: 9780307718037
Publisher: Broadway Books (A Division of Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc)
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 03 May 2013
ISBN: 9780691155340 - Thinking About the Presidency Thinking About the Presidency
William G Howell

ISBN10: 0691155348  ISBN13: 9780691155340
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 07 Apr 2013
All American presidents, past and present, have cared deeply about power--acquiring, protecting, and expanding it. While individual presidents obviously have other concerns, such as shaping policy or building a legacy, the primacy of power... More
ISBN: 9781442217249 - After Hope and Change After Hope and Change
James W Ceaser, Andrew E Busch, John J Pitney

ISBN10: 1442217243  ISBN13: 9781442217249
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 06 Apr 2013
As they have every four years since 1992, James W. Ceaser and Andrew E. Busch-joined in 2008 by John J. Pitney Jr.-once again provide the most comprehensive and authoritative account of the national election, including the presidential nomination... More
ISBN: 9780814789490 - Two Presidents Are Better Than One Two Presidents Are Better Than One
David Orentlicher

ISBN10: 0814789498  ISBN13: 9780814789490
Publisher: New York University Press
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 25 Mar 2013
Demonstrates why the US needs constitutional reform to rebalance power between the executive and legislative branches and contain partisan conflict in Washington When talking heads and political pundits make their "What's Wrong with America"... More
ISBN: 9780415818483 - An Empire of Ideals An Empire of Ideals
Justin D Garrison

ISBN10: 0415818486  ISBN13: 9780415818483
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd Routledge
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 25 Mar 2013
Justin D. Garrison provides an original and groundbreaking analysis of Ronald Reagan's imagination as it was expressed mainly in his presidential speeches. He argues that the predominant strain of Reagan's imagination is "chimeric," that is... More
ISBN: 9781137306586 - Bad Presidents Bad Presidents
Philip Abbott

ISBN10: 1137306580  ISBN13: 9781137306586
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 20 Mar 2013
Bad Presidents seeks to interpret the meaning of presidential 'badness' by investigating the ways in which eleven presidents were 'bad.' The author brings a unique, and often amusing perspective on the idea of the presidency, and begins a new... More
ISBN: 9780674050266 - FDR and the Jews FDR and the Jews
Richard Breitman, Allan J Lichtman

ISBN10: 0674050266  ISBN13: 9780674050266
Publisher: Harvard University Press The Belknap Press
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 19 Mar 2013
A contentious debate lingers over whether Franklin Delano Roosevelt turned his back on the Jews of Hitler's Europe. FDR and the Jews reveals a concerned leader whose efforts on behalf of Jews were far greater than those of any other world figure... More