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 ...

"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 the veteran political journalist and 60 Minutes correspondent, a deep dive into the history, evolution, and ...

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 ...

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

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

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

From the New York Times best-selling author of The Accidental President comes the thrilling story of the 1948 presidential election, one ...

Prisoners of the White House looks at the isolation experienced by presidents of the United States in the White House, ...

BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: The New York Times • The Washington Post • Fortune • Bloomberg From two of America's most revered ...

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

A fascinating new angle on presidential history, assessing the performances of the presidents in their freshman year of the toughest ...

Thomas Jefferson believed in the covenant between a government and its citizens--in both the government's responsibilities to its people and ...

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

An award-winning presidential historian offers an authoritative account of American presidents' attacks on our freedom of the press. “The FAKE ...

During the past ten years, few issues have mattered more to America’s vital interests or to the shape of ...

The vital inside account of American democracy in its darkest hour, from the rise of autocracy unleashed by Trump to ...

A riveting, deeply personal account of history in the making—from the president who inspired us to believe in the ...

This New York Times bestselling “deep dive into the terms of eight former presidents is chock-full of political hijinks—and ...

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

USA Today Bestseller From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Residence and First Women—also a New York ...

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

An essential re-evaluation of the complex triumphs and tragedies of Jimmy Carter's presidential legacy--from the expert biographer and Pulitzer Prize-winning ...

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

When Lincoln was assassinated and Andrew Johnson became President, a fraught time in America became perilous. Congress was divided over ...

The award-winning, New York Times bestselling historian considers the vast array of triumphs and failures of America’s modern presidents ...

Based on the full cooperation of the subject—with no restraining conditions—The Strategist provides an in-depth portrait of a ...

The rough-hewn general who rose to the nation's highest office, and whose presidency witnessed the first political skirmishes that would ...

From CNN chief legal analyst and bestselling author Jeffrey Toobin, a real-life legal thriller about the prosecutors and congressional investigators ...

“Meticulously researched and engagingly written . . . a comprehensive indictment of the court’s rulings in areas ranging from campaign finance and ...

Readers will come away with the message that anyone who wants to have a positive impact on the world can ...

Failure should not be an option in the presidency, but for too long it has been the norm. From the ...

This New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller shows us that America’s political system isn’t broken. The ...

Presents a groundbreaking investigation into the origins of morality at the core of religion and politics, offering scholarly insight into ...

An essential part of a journalist's responsibility is to listen, observe, ask good questions, and then listen some more. For ...

“A deft, filled-out portrait of the thirty-first president…by far the best, most readable study of Herbert Hoover’s presidency ...

Beckoned by [a] gap in our historical knowledge, Fredrik Logevall has spent seven years searching for the 'real' JFK. The ...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - An "outstanding new intellectual biography of John Maynard Keynes [that moves] swiftly along currents of ...