Practical Politics category: 1369 books
by Martin Stanley
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2016
Although it is seldom recognised as such by the public, the civil service is a profession like any other. The UK civil service employs 400,000 people across the country, with over 20,000 students and graduates applying to enter every year through its fast-stream competition alone.
Martin Stanley's...
by Michelle Obama
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2009
The election of Barack Obama has brought worldwide attention not only to what his policies will be, but to what kind of First Lady Michelle Obama will be. Throughout the long campaign season, Michelle Robinson Obama garnered a good amount of attention, kudos and criticism about her words, actions,...
Union Jack
JFK's Special Relationship with Great Britain
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2017
John F. Kennedy carried on a lifelong love affair with England and the English. From his speaking style to his tastes in art, architecture, theater, music, and clothes, his personality reflected his deep affinity for a certain kind of idealized Englishness. In Union Jack, noted biographer Christopher...
Civil Disobedience
An American Tradition
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2013
Eisenhower Volume II
The President
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2014
Eisenhower: The President, the second and concluding volume of Stephen Ambrose's brilliant biography, is the first assessment of a postwar President based on access to the entire record. It covers a wide range of subjects, including Eisenhower's rejection of the near-unanimous advice he received as...
Leadership in War
Essential Lessons from Those Who Made History
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2019
A comparison of nine leaders who led their nations through the greatest wars the world has ever seen and whose unique strengths--and weaknesses--shaped the course of human history, from the bestselling, award-winning author of Churchill and Napoleon
Taking us from the French Revolution to the...
The Color of Truth
McGeorge Bundy and William Bundy: Brothers in Arms
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2017
"Grey is the color of truth."
So observed Mac Bundy in defending America's intervention in Vietnam. Kai Bird brilliantly captures this ambiguity in his revelatory look at Bundy and his brother William, two of the most influential policymakers of the Kennedy and Johnson administrations. It is a portrait...
by Kai Bird
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2017
“Exhaustively researched and remarkably evenhanded.” —The New York Times
“Absorbing…the definitive life story.” —Kirkus Reviews
“A fascinating study.” —Los Angeles Times
In The Chairman, the authoritative biography of John J. McCloy, Pulitzer Prize-winning...
One Million Steps
A Marine Platoon at War
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2014
Battalion 3/5 suffered the highest number of casualties in the war in Afghanistan. This is the story of one platoon in that distinguished battalion.
Aware of U.S. plans to withdraw from the country, knowing their efforts were only a footprint in the sand, the fifty Marines of 3rd Platoon fought...
The Right Man
The Surprise Presidency of George W. Bush
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2003
The Right Manis the first inside account of a historic year in the Bush White House, by the presidential speechwriter credited with the phrase axis of evil. David Frum helped make international headlines when President George W. Bush’s 2002 State of the Union address linked international terrorists...
by NEXOS UNIVERSIDAD DE GUADALAJARA
Language: Spanish
Release Date: November 24, 2017
Language: Spanish
Release Date: November 24, 2017
México enfrenta grandes problemas, y la mayoría de difícil arreglo. ¿Pero cuáles son? ¿Qué riesgos implican? ¿Y qué vías existen para combatirlos?
En esta obra, 34 académicos e intelectuales de primer orden realizan un diagnóstico sistemático de las fallas y carencias de este país....
Trump, el triunfo del showman
Golpe a los medios y jaque al sistema
Language: Spanish
Release Date: January 18, 2017
Estamos ante una mirada periodística de la irrepetible campaña que vivió Estados Unidos, protagonizada por un populista genuinamente americano, Donald Trump. La aparición del magnate, que trivializó la verdad con técnicas de reality show y su dominio del Twitter, fue la provocación perfecta...
At Power's Elbow
Aides to the Prime Minister from Robert Walpole to David Cameron
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2013
Discreet, inconspicuous, prudent... The perfect prime-ministerial aide is always in the background, a low-profile figure unknown outside the Westminster bubble. Unfortunately, reality often falls short of the ideal; for as long as the office of Prime Minister has existed, its occupants have been supported...
by A. J. Langguth
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2013
With meticulous research and page-turning suspense, Patriots brings to life the American Revolution—the battles, the treacheries, and the dynamic personalities of the men who forged our freedom.
George Washington, John Adams, Samuel Adams, Ben Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, Patrick Henry—these...