Practical Politics category: 1369 books
JFK's Last Hundred Days
The Transformation of a Man and the Emergence of a Great President
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2013
**A Kirkus Best Book of 2013
A revelatory, minute-by-minute account of JFK’s last hundred days that asks what might have been**
Fifty years after his death, President John F. Kennedy’s legend endures. Noted author and historian Thurston Clarke argues that the heart of that legend...
Eisenhower
Soldier and President
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2014
Stephen E. Ambrose draws upon extensive sources, an unprecedented degree of scholarship, and numerous interviews with Eisenhower himself to offer the fullest, richest, most objective rendering yet of the soldier who became president.
He gives us a masterly account of the European war theater...
White House Ghosts
Presidents and Their Speechwriters
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2008
In White House Ghosts, veteran Washington reporter Robert Schlesinger opens a fresh and revealing window on the modern presidency from FDR to George W. Bush. This is the first book to examine a crucial and often hidden role played by the men and women who help presidents find the words they hope will...
The Clinton Enigma
A Four and a Half Minute Speech Reveals This President's Entire Life
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 1999
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist David Maraniss, regarded by his peers as the nation's leading expert on Bill Clinton, sat in a darkened television studio in New York on the night of August 17 and watched the president deliver his curious apologia confessing that he had misled the nation about his...
Summary of The Bully Pulpit
by Doris Kearns Goodwin | Includes Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2016
Summary of The Bully Pulpit by Doris Kearns Goodwin | Includes Analysis Preview: Doris Kearns Goodwin describes the life and leadership of Theodore Roosevelt in this historical work. Roosevelt emerges as a large-than-life character who takes on the financial trusts of huge...
Hillary's Scheme
Inside the Next Clinton's Ruthless Agenda to Take the White House
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2004
Can this country survive another Clinton presidency? Two terms of “Slick Willy” were bad enough. Now, numerous political experts and people close to the Clinton family hint that Hillary is plotting to retake the White House and ring in another four—or eight—years of a Clinton as commander...
Eisenhower Volume I
Soldier, General of the Army, President-Elect, 1890-1952
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2014
Stephen E. Ambrose draws upon extensive sources, an unprecedented degree of scholarship, and numerous interviews with Dwight D. Eisenhower himself to offer the fullest, richest, and most objective rendering yet of the soldier who became president.
At various times in his life, Eisenhower was...
by James MacGregor Burns
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2012
A Pulitzer Prize–winning historian examines transformational leaders from Moses to Machiavelli to Martin Luther King Jr. in this “impressive book” (The Washington Post).
Historian and political scientist James MacGregor Burns has spent much of his career documenting the use and misuse...
The Hellhound of Wall Street
How Ferdinand Pecora's Investigation of the Great Crash Forever Changed American Finance
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2010
A gripping account of the underdog Senate lawyer who unmasked the financial wrongdoing that led to the Crash of 1929 and forever changed the relationship between Washington and Wall Street.
In The Hellhound of Wall Street, Michael Perino recounts in riveting detail the 1933 hearings that put...
Los hombres de papa
Cómic ilustrado
Language: Spanish
Release Date: January 31, 2017
Los hombres de papa (patata) esta inspirada en la “Fábula de los Trogloditas” de Montesquieu en sus “Cartas Persas”. El fijó continuamente su atención, en la felicidad del hombre y su relación con la vida política, es un tema muy importante, en el que todos nos preguntamos diariamente,...
La otra guerra secreta
Los archivos prohibidos de la prensa y el poder
Language: Spanish
Release Date: July 15, 2016
Una historia de los mecanismos de propaganda y control informativo en México, en los gobiernos de Gustavo Díaz Ordaz y Luis Echeverría Álvarez.
A partir de documentos de la Dirección Federal de Seguridad y de la Dirección de Investigaciones Políticas y Sociales del Archivo General de...
Henry Clay
The Essential American
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2010
He was the Great Compromiser, a canny and colorful legislator whose life mirrors the story of America from its founding until the eve of the Civil War. Speaker of the House, senator, secretary of state, five-time presidential candidate, and idol to the young Abraham Lincoln, Henry Clay is captured...
La historia detrás del desastre
Crónica de una herencia envenenada
Language: Spanish
Release Date: June 21, 2019
El país se desmoronó día a día, durante seis años.
Hoy pagamos las consecuencias.
El sexenio pasado es recordado por su rastro de corruptelas, omisiones, opacidad y complicidades.
Enrique Peña Nieto empezó su encargo como un salvador de México y lo terminó como uno de...
by Henry M. Robert
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2016
Originally published in 1896, “Robert’s Rules of Order,” remains to this day the manual of choice when it comes to conducting orderly productive proceedings. As General Henry M. Robert describes in his preface to the work, “The object of Rules of Order is to assist an assembly to accomplish in...