Stephen Hess: 13 books
The Professor and the President
Daniel Patrick Moynihan in the Nixon White House
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2014
What happens when a conservative president makes a liberal professor from the Ivy League his top urban affairs adviser? The president is Richard Nixon, the professor is Harvard's Daniel Patrick Moynihan. Of all the odd couples in American public life, they are probably the oddest. Add another Ivy...
Bit Player
My Life with Presidents and Ideas
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2018
An insightful, often humorous look at how Washington works, or doesn't
The title Bit Player perfectly reflects Stephen Hess's long and distinguished career as a Washington insider. As a 25-year-old, recently discharged Army private in 1958, he suddenly found himself as part of President...
America's Political Dynasties
From Adams to Clinton
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2015
The Constitution states that "no title of nobility shall be granted by the United States," yet it seems political nobility is as American as apple pie.
America was founded in rebellion against nobility and inherited status. Yet from the start, dynastic families have been conspicuous...
by Stephen Hess
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2012
Whatever Happened to the Washington Reporters, 19782012, is the first book to comprehensively examine career patterns in American journalism. In 1978 Brookings Senior Fellow Stephen Hess surveyed 450 journalists who were covering national government for U.S. commercial news organizations. His study...
The Little Book of Campaign Etiquette
For Everyone with a Stake in Politicians and Journalists
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2010
Revised and updated just in time for the 2000 campaign, this shrewd and amusing series of observations provides a political etiquette for campaign behavior on the part of both politicians and journalists. Features illustrations by America's foremost political cartoonists, including Herblock, Paul...
by Stephen Hess
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
This is the 30th anniversary edition of a book that was hailed on publication in 1966 as "fascinating" by Margaret L. Coit in the Saturday Review and as "masterly" by Henry F. Graff in the New York Times Book Review.The Constitution could not be more specific: "No title of...
Revue des Deux Mondes mars 2015
Michel Onfray. Pour une sagesse sans Dieu
Language: French
Release Date: March 1, 2015
Pour se revivifier « Cosmos est mon premier livre », écrit Michel Onfray dans l’introduction de cette somme de mille pages, sous-titrée « Vers une sagesse sans morale ». « J’ai publié à ce jour quatre-vingts livres sur bon nombre de sujets : l’éthique, l’esthétique, la bioéthique,...
The Politically Correct University
Problems, Scope, and Reforms
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2009
The Politically Correct University shows how the universities' quest for 'diversity' has produced in too many departments a stifling uniformity of thought. Required reading for those who want American universities to eschew political correctness." — Michael Barone, resident fellow, American Enterprise Institute
Lens of War
Exploring Iconic Photographs of the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2015
Lens of War grew out of an invitation to leading historians of the Civil War to select and reflect upon a single photograph. Each could choose any image and interpret it in personal and scholarly terms. The result is a remarkable set of essays by twenty-seven scholars whose numerous volumes on the...
The Guerrilla Hunters
Irregular Conflicts during the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2017
Throughout the Civil War, irregular warfare—including the use of hit-and-run assaults, ambushes, and raiding tactics—thrived in localized guerrilla fights within the Border States and the Confederate South. The Guerrilla Hunters offers a comprehensive overview of the tactics, motives, and actors...
by John Law, Kalpana Shankar, David Hakken
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2016
The fourth edition of an authoritative overview, with all new chapters that capture the state of the art in a rapidly growing field.
Science and Technology Studies (STS) is a flourishing interdisciplinary field that examines the transformative power of science and technology to arrange and...
The Oneness Hypothesis
Beyond the Boundary of Self
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2018
The idea that the self is inextricably intertwined with the rest of the world—the “oneness hypothesis”—can be found in many of the world’s philosophical and religious traditions. Oneness provides ways to imagine and achieve a more expansive conception of the self as fundamentally connected...
Authority and Leadership
Values, Religion, Media
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2017
This book wrestles with questions of authority and leadership in the digital age, questions that hold particular relevance for religious communication and Church authority. The essays come out of a series of conferences that gathered acadèmic researchers, theologians, and communication scholars together...