Washington, D.C., 1861. A new president takes office, a nation begins to break apart, and Colonel Charles Rook must risk insubordination to stop a mysterious assassin who prowls a nervous city. He will need the help of an ally he does not even know he has: Portia, a beautiful sl…
George Stephanopoulos var rådgiver for præsident Clinton i årene 1993-1997
John F. Kennedy died almost half a century ago - yet because of his extraordinary promise and untimely death, his star still resonates strongly. On the anniversary of his assassination, celebrated political scientist and analyst Larry J. Sabato - himself a teenager in the early …
In December 1974, a front-page story in the New York Times revealed the explosive details of illegal domestic spying by the Central Intelligence Agency. This included political surveillance, eavesdropping, detention, and interrogation. The revelation of illegal activities over m…
This title presents a comprehensive collection of historiographical essays addressing the life and administration of the nation's 35th president
This title presents a comprehensive collection of historiographical essays addressing the life and administration of the nation's 35th president
Based on extensive quantitative and qualitative analyses of a corpus of American presidential speeches that includes all inaugural addresses and State of the Union messages from 1789 to 2008, as well as major foreign and security policy speeches after 1945, this research monogra…
In his time, Ulysses S. Grant was routinely grouped with George Washington and Abraham Lincoln in the "Trinity of Great American Leaders." But the battlefield commander-turned-commander-in-chief fell out of favor in the twentieth century. In American Ulysses, Ronald C. White arg…
Drawing on newly declassified documents and of unpublished material, it tells the story of a masterful president Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890-1969) guiding the nation through the great crises of the 1950s, from McCarthyism and the Korean War through civil rights and Cold War confl…
How the gonzo literary journalist became a crusader against Richard Nixon and the threat of fascism in America - and the devastating price his work exacted on his life, his health, and his career
Jimmy Carters (f. 1924) dagbog fra hans tid som USA's præsident 1977-81.
President George W. Bush tends to blurt out all or part of what he's really thinking, even as he's trying to lie about it. George W Bush is so illiterate as to turn completely incoherent when he speaks without a script. He seems like too easy a target, but Dubya speaks for hims…
