From two leading experts in the area of American foreign policy comes this work that examines the relationships between presidents--from John F. Kennedy to George W. Bush--and the extraordinary men they appointed to advise them.
Samantha Reid, the White House Deputy Director for Homeland Security, deals with national security threats on a daily basis. When a natural-gas pipeline explodes in America's heartland, she senses pending disaster and tries to convince reluctant officials to take action.
Labor Day Weekend 2007 - In the dead of night during a hot Virginia summer, an unknown intruder silently hoisted himself through a downstairs window into a rural home. The next morning, Kathleen Willey awoke to find her jewellery untouched, her credit cards intact, and her electronics disturbed but not stolen. A copy of the manuscript of her ...
In this work, a legendary CIA operative and central figure in the Watergate scandal at last tells his story. World War II covert agent E. Howard Hunt joined the CIA soon after its inception, becoming one of its most valuable operatives until his retirement in 1970. He blazed a trail for the agency in Latin America, helping to orchestrate the ...
The Khmer Rouge came to power in 1975 - the same year that the U.S. presence in Vietnam ended - and began a vicious genocide to return Cambodia to an agrarian society. The Khmer Rouge imprisoned, enslaved, and murdered the educated and intellectual members of the population, resulting in the harrowing 'killing fields' - rice paddies where the ...
William Osborn Stoddard, Lincoln's "third secretary" who worked alongside John G. Nicolay and John Hay in the White House from 1861 to 1865, completed his autobiography in 1907, one of more than one hundred books he wrote. An abridged version was published by his son in 1955 as "Lincoln's Third Secretary: The Memoirs of William O. Stoddard." In ...
From Arthur Schlesinger's work in John Kennedy's campaign and administration to Daniel Patrick Moynihan's role as the Democrat in the Nixon White House, through Sidney Blumenthal's effort to secure intellectual support for a scandal-plagued Bill Clinton, every president since 1960 has had to address the question of intellectual support. In this ...
Question: Can a spin doctor with a scorching midlife crisis spark a second Civil War to impress his old girlfriend? Answer: Only if it's a slow news day.
Islamist revolutionary terrorists have taken over the United States of America. Millions of citizens have been killed, imprisoned, and tortured. The President is missing, his most trusted advisor, Eli Jared, is holed up in a secret government command center. Without weapons or any communication with the outside world, Jared must figure out how to ...
When Franklin Roosevelt decided his administration needed a large executive staff, he instituted dramatic and lasting changes in thefederal bureaucracy and in the very nature of the presidency. Today, no president can govern without an enormous White House staff. Yet analysts have disagreed about whether the key to a president's success lies in ...
To a generation of Democrats, Terry McAuliffe is the ultimate political insider-confidante of the candidates, master strategist, party spokesperson, mediator among party leaders, and without question the most successful fundraiser in political history. McAuliffe's energetic narrative provides readers with a fly-on-the-wall view, from the front ...
This memoir provides an insight into what it was like to work behind the scenes in the White House during Truman's term as President. It discusses the strengths and weaknesses of those who worked closely with Truman, focusing on the Truman not seen in public.
Hart's study of presidential staffing contends that the major institutional trends and developments in the history of the executive office have not only remained unchanged since the mid-1980s but have been reinforced by the controversies of the Bush and Clinton presidencies. The idea of comity survived a 12-year period of divided government; it ...
In dual briefings to the American public and the next occupant of the Oval Office, this book provides intriguing insight into the process of creating and managing the government and outlines what the most likely issues confronting the next president will be and how the president should respond.
"Reagan's Mandate-Anecdotes from Inside Washington's Iron Triangle," describes how Washington's Iron Triangle--the combination of Congress, lobbies, and Administration --changed our national government thirty years ago. The book recounts Dr. McLennan's journey, in the 1970s and 1980s, from university professor to minority staff member on the House ...
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