Автор: McAndrews Lawrence J. Название: The Presidents and the Poor: America Battles Poverty, 1964-2017 ISBN: 0700626735 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780700626731 Издательство: Turpin Рейтинг: Цена: 60310.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Provides a thorough study of the policies and politics of the presidents from Johnson to Barack Obama - what they did right and how they went wrong - in over half a century of fighting poverty. While all of these presidents have helped produce meaningful changes in the lives of America`s underclass, their setbacks have been at least as notable as their successes.
Автор: Spann C. Edward Название: Presidential Praise: Our Presidents and Their Hymns ISBN: 0881461172 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780881461176 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Цена: 29260.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Offers comprehensive coverage of the influence of hymns on the lives and administrations of America`s presidents. This book features chapters that begin with presentation of each president`s path to the White House and his accomplishments and failures as president. It covers a panorama of hymnody from 1614 to the 1980s.
Автор: Hedges Jill Название: Evita ISBN: 1784533270 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781784533274 Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic Рейтинг: Цена: 31680.00 T Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии. Описание: Eva Peron remains Argentina's best-known and most iconic personality, surpassing even sporting superstars such as Diego Maradona or Lionel Messi, and far outlasting her own husband, President Juan Domingo Peron himself a remarkable and charismatic political leader without whom she, as an uneducated woman in an elitist and male-dominated society, could not have existed as a political figure. In this book, Jill Hedges tells the story of a remarkable woman whose glamour, charisma, political influence and controversial nature continue to generate huge amounts interest 60 years after her death. From her poverty-stricken upbringing as an illegitimate child in rural Argentina, Peron made her way to the highest echelons of Argentinean society, via a brief acting career and her relationship with Juan. After their political breakthrough, her charitable work and magnetic personality earned her wide public acclaim and there was national mourning following her death from cancer at the age of just 33.Based on new sources and first-hand interviews, the book will seek to explore the personality and experiences of 'Evita' and the contemporary events that influenced her and were in turn influenced by her. As the first substantive biography of Eva Peron in English, this book will be essential reading for anyone interested in modern Argentinean history and the cult of 'Evita'."
Автор: Koncewicz Michael Название: They Said No to Nixon: Republicans Who Stood Up to the President`s Abuses of Power ISBN: 0520299051 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780520299054 Издательство: Wiley Рейтинг: Цена: 26400.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: "One reason Koncewicz's narrative is so compelling is that it's also a redemption story."--The Washington Post
"Excruciatingly timely."--Kirkus Reviews
In more than three thousand recorded conversations, the Nixon tapes famously exposed a president's sinister views of governance that would eventually lead to his downfall. Despite Richard Nixon's best efforts, his vision of a government where he could use his power to punish his political enemies never came to fruition because members of his own party defied his directives. While many are familiar with the Republicans who turned against Nixon during the final stages of the Watergate saga, They Said No to Nixon uncovers for the first time those within the administration--including Nixon's own appointees--who opposed the White House early on, quietly blocking the president's attacks on the IRS, the Justice Department, and other sectors of the federal government.
Culling from previously unpublished excerpts from the tapes and recently released materials that expose the thirty-seventh president's uncensored views, Michael Koncewicz reveals how Republican party members remained loyal civil servants in the face of Nixon's attempts to expand the imperial presidency.
Delving into the abuses of power surrounding the Watergate era and showing how they were curbed, They Said No to Nixon sheds light on the significant cultural and ideological shifts that occurred within the GOP during the pivotal 1970s. Koncewicz deftly demonstrates how Nixon's administration marked a decisive moment that led to the rise of modern conservatism and today's ruthlessly partisan politics.
Автор: Graham Otis L. Jr. Название: Presidents and the American Environment ISBN: 0700620982 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780700620982 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 50150.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: In 1891 Benjamin Harrison, the first president engaged in conservation, had to have this new area of public policy explained to him by members of the Boone and Crockett Club. This didn’t take long, as he was only asked to sign a few papers setting aside federal timberland. But from such small moments great social movements grow, and the course of natural resource protection policy through 22 presidents has altered Americans’ relationship to the natural world in then almost unimaginable ways. Presidents and the American Environment charts this course. Exploring the ways in which every president from Harrison to Obama has engaged the expanding agenda of the Nature protection impulse, the book offers a clear, close-up view of the shifting and nation shaping mosaic of both “green” and “brown” policy directions over more than a century.While the history of conservation generally focuses on the work of intellectuals such as Muir, Leopold, and Carson, such efforts could only succeed or fail on a large scale with the involvement of the government, and it is this side of the story that Presidents and the American Environment tells. On the one hand, we find a ready environmental engagement, as in Theodore Roosevelt’s establishment of Pelican Island bird refuge upon being informed that the Constitution did not explicitly forbid it. On the other hand, we have leaders like Calvin Coolidge, playing hide-and-seek games in the Oval Office while ignoring reports of coastal industrial pollution. The book moves from early cautious sponsors of the idea of preserving public lands to crusaders like Theodore Roosevelt, from the environmental implications of the New Deal to the politics of pollution in the boom times of the forties and fifties, from the emergence of “environmentalism” to recent presidential detractors of the cause.From Harrison’s act, which established the American system of National Forests, to Barack Obama’s efforts on curbing climate change, presidents have mattered as they resisted or used the ever-changing tools and objectives of environmentalism. In fact, with a near even split between “browns” and “greens” over those 22 administrations, the role of president has often been decisive. How, and how much, distinguished historian Otis L. Graham, Jr., describes in in full for the first time, in this important contribution to American environmental history.
Название: Presidents speak ISBN: 1622881788 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781622881789 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 22170.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Includes thirteen of the original sixteen presidential addresses, with some modifications, documentation, and enhancements for publication purposes. One additional paper represents a contemporaneous article the editors chose to include in lieu of the presidential address, which is no longer available.
Автор: Henry Mike Название: Christmas with the Presidents: Holiday Lessons for Today`s Kids from America`s Leaders ISBN: 1475837836 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781475837834 Издательство: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers Цена: 49280.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: The job of the President of the United States is one of the most difficult in the world. But for a brief time each year at Christmas, the Commander in Chief becomes a regular person, celebrating the holiday with family, friends, parties, and presents. This is a fun look at history through the perspective of the holidays.
Автор: Kriner Douglas L. Название: After the Rubicon: Congress, Presidents, and the Politics of Waging War ISBN: 0226453561 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780226453569 Издательство: Wiley Цена: 33790.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: When the United States goes to war, the nation`s attention focuses on the president. This title reveals that even in politically sensitive wartime environments, individual members of Congress frequently propose legislation, hold investigative hearings, and engage in national policy debates in the public sphere.
Автор: Walker Stephen G., Malici Akan Название: U.S. Presidents and Foreign Policy Mistakes ISBN: 0804774986 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780804774987 Издательство: Wiley EDC Рейтинг: Цена: 97240.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание:
Mistakes, in the form of bad decisions, are a common feature of every presidential administration, and their consequences run the gamut from unnecessary military spending, to missed opportunities for foreign policy advantage, to needless bloodshed. This book analyzes a range of presidential decisions made in the realm of US foreign policy—with a special focus on national security—over the past half century in order to create a roadmap of the decision process and a guide to better foreign policy decision-making in the increasingly complex context of 21st century international relations.
Mistakes are analyzed in two general categories—ones of omission and ones of commission within the context of perceived threats and opportunities. Within this framework, the authors discuss how past scholarship has addressed these questions and argue that this research has not explicitly identified a vantage point around which the answers to these questions revolve. They propose game theory models of complex adaptive systems for minimizing bad decisions and apply them to test cases in the Middle East and Asia.
Автор: Nelson Michael, Perry Barbara A., Riley Russell L. Название: 42: Inside the Presidency of Bill Clinton ISBN: 0801454069 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780801454066 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 108680.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание:
This book uses hundreds of hours of newly opened interviews and other sources to illuminate the life and times of the nation's forty-second president, Bill Clinton. Combining the authoritative perspective of these inside accounts with the analytic powers of some of America’s most distinguished presidential scholars, the essays assembled here offer a major advance in our collective understanding of the Clinton White House. Included are path-breaking chapters on the major domestic and foreign policy initiatives of the Clinton years, as well as objective discussions of political success and failure. 42 is the first book to make extensive use of previously closed interviews collected for the Clinton Presidential History Project, conducted by the Presidential Oral History Program of the University of Virginia’s Miller Center. These interviews, recorded by teams of scholars working under a veil of strict confidentiality, explored officials’ memories of their service with President Clinton and their careers prior to joining the administration. Interviewees also offered political and leadership lessons they had gleaned as eyewitnesses to and shapers of history. Their spoken recollections provide invaluable detail about the inner history of the presidency in an age when personal diaries and discursive letters are seldom written. The authors producing this volume had first access to more than fifty of these cleared interviews, including sessions with White House chiefs of staff Mack McLarty and Leon Panetta, Secretaries of State Warren Christopher and Madeleine Albright, National Security Advisors Anthony Lake and Sandy Berger, and a host of political advisors who guided Clinton into the White House and helped keep him there. This book thus provides a multidimensional portrait of Bill Clinton's administration, drawing largely on the observations of those who knew it best.ContributorsSpencer D. Bakich, University of RichmondBrendan J. Doherty, United States Naval AcademyPatrick T. Hickey, West Virginia UniversityElaine Kamarck, Center for Effective Public Management, Brookings InstitutionSidney M. Milkis, University of VirginiaMegan Moeller, University of Texas at AustinMichael Nelson, Rhodes College and the Miller Center, University of VirginiaBruce F. Nesmith, Coe CollegeBarbara A. Perry, Miller Center, University of VirginiaPaul J. Quirk, University of British ColumbiaRussell L. Riley, Miller Center, University of VirginiaAndrew Rudalevige, Bowdoin CollegeRobert A. Strong, Washington and Lee UniversitySean M. Theriault, University of Texas at Austin
