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Crucible
The President's First Year
Av Michael Nelson, Jeffrey L. Chidester m. fl.
Inbunden, 2018
345 kr
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Is the presidency a position one must learn on the job, or can one learn from others’ experience? No common thread runs through the list of forty-five presidents; no playbook provides the answers to all the challenges a president will face. Yet even in the most unprecedented situations, history can …
Crucible
The President's First Year
Av Michael Nelson, Jeffrey L. Chidester m. fl.
Häftad, 2018
302 kr
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Is the presidency a position one must learn on the job, or can one learn from others' experience? No common thread runs through the list of forty-five presidents; no playbook provides the answers to all the challenges a president will face. Yet even in the most unprecedented situations, history can …
Trump
The First Two Years
Häftad, 2019
284 kr
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On the first anniversary of Donald Trump’s presidency, Michael Nelson, one of our finest and most objective presidential scholars, published Trump’s First Year, a nonpartisan assessment that was widely hailed as the best account of one of the most unusual years in presidential history. At the …
Presidency
Facing Constitutional Crossroads
Av Michael Nelson, Barbara A. Perry
Inbunden, 2021
1016 kr
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Following the election of Donald Trump, the office of the U.S. president has come under scrutiny like never before. Featuring penetrating insights from high-profile presidential scholars, The Presidency provides the deep historical and constitutional context needed to put the Trump era into its …
Presidency
Facing Constitutional Crossroads
Av Michael Nelson, Barbara A. Perry
Häftad, 2021
470 kr
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Following the election of Donald Trump, the office of the U.S. president has come under scrutiny like never before. Featuring penetrating insights from high-profile presidential scholars, The Presidency provides the deep historical and constitutional context needed to put the Trump era into its …
Averting Doomsday
Arms Control During the Nixon Presidency
Av Patrick J. Garrity, Erin R. Mahan
Inbunden, 2021
616 kr
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In the controversial legacy of the Nixon presidency, the administration’s effort to curb and control the spread of the world’s weapons of mass destruction is often overlooked. And yet by the time President Nixon left office under the cloud of the Watergate scandal, his actions on this front had …
Peaceful Transfer of Power
An Oral History of America's Presidential Transitions
Av David Marchick, Alexander Tippett m. fl.
Inbunden, 2022
355 kr
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Ronald Reagan called the peaceful transfer of power from one U.S. president to the next a miracle, and it is. It is also the most delicate and hazardous period in the entire political cycle. Americans learned the stakes in 2020, when President Donald Trump’s refusal to trigger the formal start of …
Mourning the Presidents
Loss and Legacy in American Culture
Av Lindsay M, Chervinsky, Lindsay M. Chervinsky m. fl.
Inbunden, 2023
1119 kr
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The death of a chief executive, regardless of the circumstances—sudden or expected, still in office or decades later—is always a moment of reckoning and reflection. Mourning the Presidents brings together renowned and emerging scholars to examine how different generations and communities of …
Mourning the Presidents
Loss and Legacy in American Culture
Av Lindsay M, Chervinsky, Lindsay M. Chervinsky m. fl.
Häftad, 2023
329 kr
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The death of a chief executive, regardless of the circumstances—sudden or expected, still in office or decades later—is always a moment of reckoning and reflection. Mourning the Presidents brings together renowned and emerging scholars to examine how different generations and communities of …
Presidency and the American State
Leadership and Decision Making in the Adams, Grant, and Taft Administrations
Inbunden, 2023
1353 kr
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Although many associate Franklin D. Roosevelt with the inauguration of the robust, dominant American presidency, the roots of his executive leadership style go much deeper. Examining the presidencies of John Quincy Adams, Ulysses S. Grant, and William Howard Taft, Stephen Rockwell traces emerging …
Presidency and the American State
Leadership and Decision Making in the Adams, Grant, and Taft Administrations
Häftad, 2023
387 kr
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Although many associate Franklin D. Roosevelt with the inauguration of the robust, dominant American presidency, the roots of his executive leadership style go much deeper. Examining the presidencies of John Quincy Adams, Ulysses S. Grant, and William Howard Taft, Stephen Rockwell traces emerging …
Year Zero
The Five-Year Presidency
Inbunden, 2024
355 kr
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Designing and operating an effective White House are critical to the success of any presidency—and to democracy in the United States. Former White House Deputy Chief of Staff Christopher Liddell offers a strategic approach to building a strong and successful presidency. An astute and experienced …
Diplomats at War
Friendship and Betrayal on the Brink of the Vietnam Conflict
Inbunden, 2024
403 kr
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For two Americans in Saigon in 1963, the personal and the political combine to spark the drama of a lifetimeBefore it spread into a tragic war that defined a generation, the conflict in Vietnam smoldered as a guerrilla insurgency and a diplomatic nightmare. Into this volatile country stepped …
Watchdogs
Inspectors General and the Battle for Honest and Accountable Government
Inbunden, 2024
368 kr
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The last line of defense for our institutions, and our democracyInspectors general may be the most important public servants you’ve never heard of. In Watchdogs, Glenn Fine—who served as the inspector general of the Department of Justice from 2000 to 2011 and the acting inspector general of the …
Elections of 2024
Inbunden, 2025
1314 kr
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A timely analysis of the historic 2024 elections from some of the leading minds in US political scienceContinuing a tradition begun in 1984, and for every presidential election year since, renowned political scientist Michael Nelson and a team of scholars have put together a comprehensive, …
Elections of 2024
Häftad, 2025
362 kr
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A timely analysis of the historic 2024 elections from some of the leading minds in US political scienceContinuing a tradition begun in 1984, and for every presidential election year since, renowned political scientist Michael Nelson and a team of scholars have put together a comprehensive, …
Year Zero
The Five-Year Presidency
Häftad, 2025
256 kr
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Designing and operating an effective White House are critical to the success of any presidency—and to democracy in the United States. Former White House Deputy Chief of Staff Christopher Liddell offers a strategic approach to building a strong and successful presidency. An astute and experienced …
Reconcilable Differences
The Unlikely Political Alliance of John F. Kennedy and Eleanor Roosevelt
Inbunden, 2026
366 kr
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The remarkable partnership that united the two great political dynasties of the twentieth century"Why doesn't Mrs. Roosevelt like me?" asked the uncommonly likable John F. Kennedy. Since FDR's passing in 1945, Eleanor Roosevelt had been the Democratic Party's grande dame, and as he set his sights …
Making the American Presidency
How Biographers Shape History
Inbunden, 2027
426 kr
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The craft of presidential biographers and how they influence our perceptions of historyOur impressions of US presidents are based largely on the work of biographers who, we assume, are simply documenting history. But these authors are craft-conscious practitioners of what is a literary genre at …
Forging the Executive Power
The Creation of the American Presidency, 1775-1789
Av Gary J. Schmitt, Joseph M. Bessette
Inbunden, 2027
1398 kr
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How the founding generation came to craft the American presidencyAmid growing controversies about the nature and reach of executive power, it is essential to re-examine the roots of the presidency: its purposes, powers and duties, institutional design, and its proper place within the republic. …
Forging the Executive Power
The Creation of the American Presidency, 1775-1789
Av Gary J. Schmitt, Joseph M. Bessette
Häftad, 2027
266 kr
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How the founding generation came to craft the American presidencyAmid growing controversies about the nature and reach of executive power, it is essential to re-examine the roots of the presidency: its purposes, powers and duties, institutional design, and its proper place within the republic. …
Forged from the Farewell Address
The Washington Doctrine and the Forgotten Foundation of US Foreign Policy, 1796–1946
Inbunden, 2027
1398 kr
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The forgotten doctrine that shaped the US approach to foreign relations for more than one hundred and fifty yearsIn 1796, as his second term as president drew to a close, George Washington issued a farewell address to the American people. In it, he famously warned against the development of …
Forged from the Farewell Address
The Washington Doctrine and the Forgotten Foundation of US Foreign Policy, 1796–1946
Häftad, 2027
369 kr
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The forgotten doctrine that shaped the US approach to foreign relations for more than one hundred and fifty yearsIn 1796, as his second term as president drew to a close, George Washington issued a farewell address to the American people. In it, he famously warned against the development of …
Inside the East Wing
The Office of the First Lady from Kennedy to Carter
Inbunden, 2027
1417 kr
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The first scholarly look at the emergence of the modern FLOTUS as an office in its own rightOver the course of the 1960s and 1970s, the East Wing of the White House—which houses the staff of the first lady—became the professional, organized, and increasingly politically engaged office we know …
Inside the East Wing
The Office of the First Lady from Kennedy to Carter
Häftad, 2027
307 kr
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The first scholarly look at the emergence of the modern FLOTUS as an office in its own rightOver the course of the 1960s and 1970s, the East Wing of the White House—which houses the staff of the first lady—became the professional, organized, and increasingly politically engaged office we know …
