The authors of the best-selling Game Change present an account of the 2012 presidential election that draws on hundreds of insider interviews to illuminate what the election meant to both parties, covering such topics as the dramatic Republican nomination fight, the rise and fal…
"Robert Scheer's interviews with U.S. Presidents, and his profiles of them, have shaped journalism history. Scheer developed close journalistic relationships with Presidents Nixon, Carter, Reagan, Clinton, and Bush I. His reporting on them had a tangible impact on national debat…
Robert Scheer's interviews with and profiles of U.S. presidents have shaped journalism history. Scheer developed close journalistic relationships with several presidents, and his reporting on them had a tangible impact on national debate. In Playing President, Robert Scheer offe…
"Examines how presidential decisionmaking has been influenced by America's defeat in the Vietnam war, studying presidents Ford, Carter, Reagan, George H.W. Bush, Clinton, George W. Bush, and Obama and how they have approached key decisions regarding conflicts while in office"--P…
"Examines how presidential decisionmaking has been influenced by America's defeat in the Vietnam war, studying presidents Ford, Carter, Reagan, George H.W. Bush, Clinton, George W. Bush, and Obama and how they have approached key decisions regarding conflicts while in office"--P…
The election of 2008 shattered political barriers, illuminated undercurrents of race, gender, and class, and ignited an extraordinary battle among some of the most formidable political rivals ever to seek the presidency in Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, and John McCain. The elec…
This work treats presidential leadership as persuasive communication. The major theories of presidential leadership found in the literature establish the central role of persuasion, and introduce the interpretive systems approach to political communication as a theoretical frame…
