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Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Barack Obama won the presidency in 2008 partly because he was a Washington outsider. But when he got to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, that distinction turned out to be double-bladed. NBC's award-winning Chief White House Correspondent Chuck Todd draws upon his unprecedented inner-circle sources to create a gripping account of Obama's tumultuous first term and campaign to win another.
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Here is the first history of President Richard Nixon covering all of his secret tapes and documents, many declassified in the past two years. Award-winning journalist Tim Weiner presents a devastating portrait of a tortured and tormented man, showing how, in Nixon's mind, the conflict in Vietnam and the crimes of Watergate were one war, fought on two fronts. He trusted no one--not his Cabinet, not his closest advisers, not the American people. Elected...
Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
[2013]
Edition
2nd edition.
Physical Desc
xix, 182 pages : map ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"The need to understand China has never been more pressing. Within one generation, the global giant has transformed from an impoverished, repressive state into an economic and political powerhouse; yet conflicting impressions of the country and its leaders abound. In this fully updated second edition of China in the 21st Century, Jeffrey Wasserstrom, with assistance from Maura Cunningham, provides cogent answers to the most urgent questions regarding...
Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
xviii, 621 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"An authoritative, sweeping, and fresh new biography of the nation's first president, Colin G. Calloway's book reveals fully the dimensions and depths of George Washington's relations with the First Americans."--Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xiii, 290 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Ephron relates the parallel stories of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and his stalker, Yigal Amir, over the two years leading up to the assassination, as one of them planned political deals he hoped would lead to peace, and the other plotted murder. Amir believed that Rabin's peace effort amounted to a betrayal of Israel and the Jewish people. As he stalked Rabin over many months, the agency charged with safeguarding the Israeli leader missed...
Author
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
363 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"When it comes to politics, we often perceive our own beliefs as fair and socially beneficial, while seeing opposing views as merely self-serving. But in fact most political views are governed by self-interest, even if we usually don't realize it. Challenging our fiercely held notions about what motivates us politically, this book explores how self-interest divides the public on a host of hot-button issues, from abortion and the legalization of marijuana...
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
xvii, 437 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
Sixty years ago, China was one of the poorest countries in the world, populated mostly by rural peasants, and still suffering from more than a century of internal turmoil and international humiliation. Today, China is a rapidly modernizing economic dynamo with growing global influence. This work is an introduction to how this transformation occurred, and how China is governed today. Each chapter offers an accessible overview of a key topic in Chinese...
Author
Publisher
University of Georgia Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
xi, 503 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
As a religious bloc, Roman Catholics constitute the most populous religious denomination in the United States, comprising one in four Americans. With the election of John F. Kennedy as president in 1960, they attained a political prominence to match their rapidly ascending socioeconomic and cultural profile. From Vietnam to Iraq, the civil rights movement to federal funding for faith-based initiatives, and from birth control to abortion, American...
Author
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
Author Meacham tells the human story of how the Founding Fathers viewed faith, and how they ultimately created a nation in which belief in God is a matter of choice. At a time when our country seems divided by extremism, this book draws on the past to offer a new perspective. Meacham re-creates the history of a nation grappling with religion and politics--from John Winthrop's "city on a hill" sermon to Thomas Jefferson's Declaration of Independence;...
Author
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
Book Club edition.
Physical Desc
xxiii, 438 pages, 16 pages of unnumbered plates : illustrations (some color), maps, portraits ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Even compared to his fellow founders, George Washington stands tall. Our first president has long been considered a stoic hero, holding himself above the rough-and-tumble politics of his day. Now historian John Ferling peers behind that image, carefully burnished by Washington himself, to show us a leader who was not only not above politics, but a canny infighter--a master of persuasion, manipulation, and deniability. In the War of Independence, Washington...
Author
Series
Cambridge Middle East studies volume 31
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
ix, 198 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Author
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
230 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Ban trans-fats? Outlaw Happy Meals? Tax Twinkies? What's next? Affirmative action for cows? A catastrophe is looming. Farmers are raping the land and torturing animals. Food is riddled with deadly pesticides, hormones and foreign DNA. Corporate farms are wallowing in government subsidies. Meat packers and fast food restaurants are exploiting workers and tainting the food supply. And Paula Deen has diabetes! Taking on the commandments and condescension...
Author
Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
xx, 304 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"A political, social, and cultural battle is currently raging in the Middle East. On one side are the Islamists, those who believe Islam should be the region's primary identity. In opposition are nationalists, secularists, royal families, military establishments, and others who view Islamism as a serious threat to national security, historical identity, and a cohesive society. This provocative, vitally important work explores the development of the...
Author
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
vii, 230 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Reveals the compromises made by men both driven and repelled by slavery and the needs of the slave economy that were made by the men creating the American Constitution.
On September 17, 1787, at the State House in Philadelphia, thirty-nine men from twelve states signed America's Constitution after months of often bitter debate. They created a magnificent, enduring document, even though most of the delegates were driven more by pragmatic, regional...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
329 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Explores the history of China between the Mongol reunification of China in 1279 under the Yuan dynasty and the Manchu invasion four centuries later, explaining how climate changes profoundly affected the empire during this period.