Mr. President
How and Why the Founders Created a Chief Executive
Written by Ray Raphael
Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
On Sale: January 22, 2013
Price: $16.00
The dramatic and penetrating story of the political maneuverings and personalities behind the creation of the office of the president, with ramifications that continue to this day.
For the first time, by focusing closely on the dynamic give-and-take at the Constitutional Convention, Ray Raphael reveals how politics and personalities cobbled together a...
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Two Americans
Truman, Eisenhower and a Dangerous World
Written by William Lee Miller
Format: Trade Paperback, 416 pages
On Sale: January 8, 2013
Price: $16.95
From William Lee Miller, the highly regarded biographer of Abraham Lincoln, a riveting dual examination of Harry Truman and Dwight Eisenhower that explores the similarities and equally striking differences of two remarkable men in the context of mid-twentieth-century American culture and politics.
Two Americans weaves together the life stories of Truman and...
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Two Americans
Truman, Eisenhower, and a Dangerous World
Written by William Lee Miller
Format: Hardcover, 416 pages
On Sale: April 10, 2012
Price: $30.00
Harry Truman and Dwight Eisenhower, consecutive presidents of the United States, were midwesterners alike in many ways—except that they also sharply differed. Born within six years of each other (Truman in 1884, Eisenhower in 1890), they came from small towns in the Missouri–Mississippi River Valley—in the midst of cows and wheat...
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Two Americans
Truman, Eisenhower, and a Dangerous World
Written by William Lee Miller
Format: eBook, 416 pages
On Sale: April 10, 2012
Price: $12.99
Harry Truman and Dwight Eisenhower, consecutive presidents of the United States, were midwesterners alike in many ways—except that they also sharply differed. Born within six years of each other (Truman in 1884, Eisenhower in 1890), they came from small towns in the Missouri–Mississippi River Valley—in the midst of cows and wheat...
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Mr. President
How and Why the Founders Created a Chief Executive
Written by Ray Raphael
Format: Hardcover, 336 pages
On Sale: March 6, 2012
Price: $27.95
The little-known story of the dramatic political maneuverings and personalities behind the creation of the office of the president, with ramifications that continue to this day.
On June 1, 1787, when the Federal Convention first talked of establishing a new executive branch, James Wilson moved that “the Executive consist of...
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Mr. President
How and Why the Founders Created a Chief Executive
Written by Ray Raphael
Format: eBook, 336 pages
On Sale: March 6, 2012
Price: $11.99
The little-known story of the dramatic political maneuverings and personalities behind the creation of the office of the president, with ramifications that continue to this day.
On June 1, 1787, when the Federal Convention first talked of establishing a new executive branch, James Wilson moved that “the Executive consist of...
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Daybreak
Undoing the Imperial Presidency and Forming a More Perfect Union
Written by David Swanson
Format: eBook
On Sale: January 4, 2011
Price: $19.95
Daybreak is a thorough investigation of how Bush/Cheney altered the way American government works and deteriorated the Constitution and Bill of Rights. It includes clear plans for how we may reclaim democracy, declare our rights, and truly set out for a new America. Shocking and inspirational, Daybreak provides a clear breakdown...
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Daybreak
Undoing the Imperial Presidency and Forming a More Perfect Union
Written by David Swanson
Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
On Sale: September 1, 2009
Price: $19.95
Daybreak is a thorough investigation of how Bush/Cheney altered the way American government works and deteriorated the Constitution and Bill of Rights. It includes clear plans for how we may reclaim democracy, declare our rights, and truly set out for a new America. Shocking and inspirational, Daybreak provides a clear breakdown...
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The Bush Tragedy
Written by Jacob Weisberg
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: October 14, 2008
Price: $16.00
This is the book that cracks the code of the Bush presidency. Unstintingly yet compassionately, and with no political ax to grind, Slate editor in chief Jacob Weisberg methodically and objectively examines the family and circle of advisers who played crucial parts in George W. Bush’s historic downfall.
In this revealing and...
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Homo Politicus
The Strange and Scary Tribes that Run Our Government
Written by Dana Milbank
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: July 29, 2008
Price: $14.00
Washington’s most acerbic (and feared) columnist, the Washington Post’s Dana Milbank, skewers the peculiar and alien tribal culture of politics.
Deep within the forbidding land encircled by the Washington Beltway lives the tribe known as
Homo politicus. Their ways are strange, even repulsive, to civilized human beings; their arcane rites often impenetrable...
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