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War in a Time of Peace: Bush, Clinton, and the Generals
by David Halberstam  Publisher Comments Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist David Halberstam chronicles Washington politics and foreign policy in post-Cold War America. Evoking the internal conflicts, unchecked egos, and power struggles within the White House, the State Department, and the...
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Sleepwalking Through History: America in the Reagan Years
by Haynes Johnson Publisher Comments This national best-seller brilliantly analyzes America in the 1980s from the election of Ronald Reagan through to the end of the decade. The author paints a vivid portrait not only of Reagan's presidency, but also of the Iran-Contra affair, the boom...
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Charlie Wilson's War: The Extraordinary Story of the Largest Covert Operation in History
by George Crile Publisher Comments Charlie Wilson's War was a publishing sensation and a New York Times, Washington Post, and Los Angeles Times bestseller. In the early 1980s, a Houston socialite turned the attention of maverick Texas congressman Charlie Wilson to the ragged band of...
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Barbara Bush: A Memoir
by Barbara Bush Publisher Comments Barbara Bush is certainly among the most popular First Ladies ever to live in the White House. Politics aside, people worldwide have come to admire her wit, her candor and compassion, as well as her unswerving devotion to her husband and children. In...
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A World Transformed
by George Bush Publisher Comments "The most important book yet written about the end of the Cold War." -The New York Tmes Book Review "Among the finest expositions of modern American foreign policy. . . . An excellent book." -Eugene V. Rostow, The Wall Street Journal It was a pivotal...
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Too Close To Call: the Thirty-six-day Battle To Decide the 2000 Election
by Jeffrey Toobin Publisher Comments From the best-selling author of A Vast Conspiracy and The Run of His Life comes Too Close to Call — the definitive story of the Bush-Gore presidential recount. A political and legal analyst of unparalleled journalistic skill, Jeffrey Toobin is the...
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The Politics of Hope and the Bitter Heritage: American Liberalism in the 1960s (James Madison Library in American Politics)
by Arthur Schlesinger Publisher Comments The Politics of Hope and The Bitter Heritage brings together two important books that bracket the tempestuous politics of 1960s America. In The Politics of Hope, which historian Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., published in 1963 while serving as a special...
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Dear Senator: A Memoir by the Daughter of Strom Thurmond
by Essie Mae Washington-Williams Publisher Comments In Dear Senator, Essie Mae Washington-Williams — daughter of the late Senator Strom Thurmond — breaks her lifelong silence and tells the story of her life. Hers is a story seven decades in the making, yet one whose unique historical importance...
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All Too Human: A Political Education
by George Stephanopoulos Synopsis A personal and candid memoir by the former senior counselor to the president about life in the White House during Clinton's first term. A brilliant combination of pragmatic insight and idealism, "All Too Human" will do to politics what "Liar's Poker" did...
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The Russia Hand: A Memoir of Presidential Diplomacy
by Strobe Talbott Publisher Comments During the past ten years, few issues have mattered more to America’s vital interests or to the shape of the twenty-first century than Russia’s fate. To cheer the fall of a bankrupt totalitarian regime is one thing; to build on its ruins a...
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George Herbert Walker Bush (Penguin Lives Biographies)
by Tom Wicker Publisher Comments No one is more qualified to give a fully rounded, objective portrait of our forty-first president than Tom Wicker. A political correspondent for The New York Times for more than thirty years, Wicker was a first-hand witness to and reporter of George H. W....
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The Age of Reagan: A History, 1974-2008 (American History)
by Sean Wilentz Publisher Comments One of the nation's leading historians offers a groundbreaking and provocativechronicle of America's political history since the fall of Nixon. The past thirty-five years have marked an era of conservatism. Although briefly interrupted in the late 1970s...
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George Herbert Walker Bush: A Photographic Profile
by David Valdez Synopsis As the personal photographer for Bush's second term as vice president and four years as president, David Valdez had a standing invitation to be present in meetings and personal private moments in the Bush administration. George Herbert Walker Bush: A...
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Seasons of Her Life: A Biography of Madeleine Korbel Albright
by Ann Blackman Publisher Comments When Madeleine Korbel Albright was sworn in as secretary of state in January 1997, she made headlines around the world. She was the first woman to rise to the top tier of American government and had a reputation for defining foreign policy in blunt one...
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Regulation & the Reagan Era: Politics, Bureaucracy & the Public Interest
by Roger E Meiners Publisher Comments Was the so-called “Reagan Revolution” a disappointment regarding the federal systems of special-interest regulation? Many of that administration’s friends as well as its opponents think so. But under what criteria? To what extent? And...
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Friends in High Places: The Rise and Fall of Clark Clifford
by Douglas Frantz Synopsis For more than forty years, Clark Clifford was Washington's consummate Democratic power broker - attorney and adviser to the nation's most influential leaders. His 1991 memoir, Counsel to the President, looked back on a remarkable career of public service....
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Rostenkowski: The Pursuit of Power and the End of the Old Politics
by Richard E Cohen Synopsis This scrupulous political biography of Dan Rostenkowski follows his rise to power from modest origins in the Democratic ward politics of Chicago's Polish northwest side, through his national legislative triumphs, and ultimately to his criminal conviction...
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Eighties : America in the Age of Reagan (05 Edition)
by John Ehrman Publisher Comments During the Reagan years, Americans witnessed an extraordinary array of changes, from major technological advances to sweeping revisions of the tax code to the deregulation of major industries and the advent of the culture wars. America emerged from the...
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George H. W. Bush (American Presidents (Times))
by Timothy Naftali Publisher Comments The judicious statesman who won victories abroad but suffered defeat at home, whose wisdom and demeanor served America well at a critical time George Bush was a throwback to a different era. A patrician figure not known for eloquence, Bush dismissed...
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Shadow: Five Presidents and the Legacy of Watergate
by Bob Woodward Publisher Comments A New York Times Notable Book of the Year Twenty-five years ago, after Richard Nixon resigned the presidency, Gerald Ford promised a return to normalcy. "My fellow Americans, our long national nightmare is over," President Ford declared. But it was not...
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