Not since Pearl Harbor has an American president gone to Congress to request a declaration of war. Nevertheless, since then, one president after another, from Truman to Obama, has ordered American troops into wars all over the world. This book deals with this topic.
Nearly a week after George Zimmerman was found not guilty of killing Trayvon Martin, President Obama walked into the press briefing room and shocked observers by saying that "Trayvon could have been me." He talked personally and poignantly about his experiences and pointed to intra-racial violence as equally serious and precarious for black boys. ......
Nearly a week after George Zimmerman was found not guilty of killing Trayvon Martin, President Obama walked into the press briefing room and shocked observers by saying that "Trayvon could have been me." He talked personally and poignantly about his experiences and pointed to intra-racial violence as equally serious and precarious for black boys. ......
Renshon (political science, City U. of New York) traces the increasing importance of character as an issue in political campaigns, detailing two approaches to the issue of presidential psychology involving the mental health of candidates and personal qualities such as honesty and motivation. He pre
What happens when a conservative president makes a liberal professor from the Ivy League his top urban affairs adviser? The president is Richard Nixon, the professor is Harvard's Daniel Patrick Moynihan. Of all the odd couples in American public life, they are probably the oddest. Add another Ivy League professor to the White House staff when ......
Shines new light on America's brilliant constitutional and presidential history, from George Washington to Barack Obama. In this sweepingly ambitious volume, the nation's foremost experts on the American presidency and the U.S. Constitution join together to tell the intertwined stories of how each American president has confronted and shaped ......
The Story of Stephen T. Early, America's First Modern Press Secretary
Looks at the people and events during a calamitous time in American history. This book documents how Stephen Early remade what had been just a routine White House briefing function into the modern high-visibility role of the presidential press secretary. It also chronicles the lifelong loyalty of Early to President Roosevelt.
This book examines the life of an aristocrat official of the traditional precapitalist Tibetan state. The author analyzes his education, civil service career, and political intrigues as well as the fall of the state and the complex social and psychological aspects of occupation and exile.
The story of the last two years of Theodore Roosevelt's life, from April 1917 to January 6, 1919--a time when he was plagued by illness and injury, denied leadership of his own regiment in World War I, and lost his son Quentin, but also one when he made plans for another run at the Presidency and set the stage for the 1918 rise of the Republican ......
