The Hardest Job In The World The American Presidency

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * From the veteran political journalist and 60 Minutes correspondent, a deep dive into the history, evolution, and ...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the veteran political journalist and 60 Minutes correspondent, a deep dive into the history, evolution, and ...

"Imagine you have just been elected president. You are now commander-in-chief, chief executive, chief diplomat, chief legislator, chief of party, ...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From Face the Nation moderator and contributing editor for The Atlantic John Dickerson come the stories ...

The former White House correspondent for "Time" magazine examines his stormy relationship with his legendary mother, Nancy Dickerson--the first female ...

A bold new history of the American presidency, arguing that the successful presidents of the past created unrealistic expectations for ...

Every president has had a unique and complicated relationship with the intelligence community. While some have been coolly distant, even ...

Documents crucial historical moments in each of the first forty-three presidencies during which the future of the United States has ...

The Presidents Club, established at Dwight Eisenhower’s inauguration by Harry Truman and Herbert Hoover, is a complicated place: its ...

The Presidency has always been an implausible—some might even say an impossible—job. Part of the problem is that ...

The standard work on the modern American presidency, providing a concise, accessible, and entertaining survey of presidents over the past ...

An award-winning journalist traces her 2009 immersion into the national food system to explore issues about how working-class Americans can afford ...

Ever since our nation's founding, after a nearly decade-long struggle with Great Britain, America has found itself almost continuously at ...

The complete rankings of our best -- and worst -- presidents, based on C-SPAN's much-cited Historians Surveys of Presidential Leadership. ...

"Every American president, when faced with a crisis, longs to take bold and decisive action. When American lives or vital ...

Digital Media has transformed the way Canadians socialize and interact, conduct business, experience culture, fight political battles, and acquire knowledge. ...

“A thorough and damning exploration of the incestuous relationship between Trump and his favorite channel.” —The New York Times “A ...

With every presidential election, Americans puzzle over the peculiar mechanism of the Electoral College. The author of the Pulitzer finalist ...

New York Times Bestseller What are the consequences if the people given control over our government have no idea how ...

"The Kremlinologist chronicles major events of the Cold War through the prism of the life of one of its top ...

By examining case studies of tough times for the president, this book broadens the understanding of presidential power and both ...

Is the presidency a position one must learn on the job, or can one learn from others' experience? No common ...

“It may be cold comfort in this chaotic era, but Americans should know that there are adults in the room. . . . ...

A NEW YORK TIMES, WALL STREET JOURNAL, AND USA TODAY BESTSELLER An intimate, powerful, and galvanizing memoir by Pulitzer Prize ...

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“One of the best books on the American presidency to appear in recent years” (The Wall Street Journal) and based ...

The Instant New York Times, Publishers Weekly, Wall Street Journal, and USA Today Bestseller A candid, riveting account of the ...

"What do Dick Cheney and Rahm Emanuel have in common? Aside from polarizing personalities, both served as chief of staff ...

Named a BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR by The New York Times, The Washington Post, Fortune and Bloomberg From two ...

The Washington Post’s Pulitzer Prize–winning book critic uses the books of the Trump era to argue that our ...

Read it, and you will come away ready to hit the ground running....

On the first anniversary of Donald Trump’s presidency, Michael Nelson, one of our finest and most objective presidential scholars, ...

The #1 bestseller that tells the remarkable story of the generations of American artists, writers, and doctors who traveled to Paris, ...

This book examines the foreign policy decisions of the presidents who presided over the most critical phases of America's rise ...

To tens of thousands of volunteers in its first decade, the Peace Corps was “the toughest job you’ll ever ...

This book uses hundreds of hours of newly opened interviews and other sources to illuminate the life and times of ...

"In the spring of 1964, President Lyndon B. Johnson had a decision to make. Just months after moving into the White ...

Winner of the Lincoln Prize Acclaimed historian Doris Kearns Goodwin illuminates Abraham Lincoln's political genius in this highly original work, ...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • With unparalleled reporting, a Pulitzer Prize–winning New York Times reporter continues to break news about ...

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