George C Edwards: 12 books
Why the Electoral College Is Bad for America
Third Edition
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2019
A new edition of the best†‘known book critiquing the U.S. electoral college
In this third edition of the definitive book on the unique system by which Americans choose a president—and why that system should be changed—George Edwards includes a new chapter focusing on the 2016 election.
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The Strategic President
Persuasion and Opportunity in Presidential Leadership
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2009
How do presidents lead? If presidential power is the power to persuade, why is there a lack of evidence of presidential persuasion? George Edwards, one of the leading scholars of the American presidency, skillfully uses this contradiction as a springboard to examine--and ultimately challenge--the...
Overreach
Leadership in the Obama Presidency
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2012
When Barack Obama became president, many Americans embraced him as a transformational leader who would fundamentally change the politics and policy of the country. Yet, two years into his administration, the public resisted his calls for support and Congress was deadlocked over many of his major policy...
Predicting the Presidency
The Potential of Persuasive Leadership
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2016
Millions of Americans—including many experienced politicians—viewed Barack Obama through a prism of high expectations, based on a belief in the power of presidential persuasion. Yet many who were inspired by candidate Obama were disappointed in what he was able to accomplish once in the White...
On Deaf Ears
The Limits of the Bully Pulpit
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
American presidents often engage in intensive campaigns to obtain public support for their policy initiatives. This core strategy for governing is based on the premise that if presidents are skilled enough to exploit the bully pulpit,” they can successfully persuade or even mobilize public opinion...
Presidential Leadership
Politics and Policy Making
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2018
With a focus on presidential leadership, the authors address the capacity of chief executives to fulfill their tasks, exercise their powers, and utilize their organizational structures to affect the output of government. The authors examine all aspects of the presidency in rich detail, including the...
Columns to Characters
The Presidency and the Press Enter the Digital Age
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2018
The relationship between the presidency and the press has transformed—seemingly overnight—from one where reports and columns were filed, edited, and deliberated for hours before publication into a brave new world where texts, tweets, and sound bites race from composition to release within a matter...
by George C. Edwards III
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2011
The Historian behind the History
Conversations with Southern Historians
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2014
The Historian behind the History brings together a collection of valuable interviews with prominent southern historians conducted over the course of a decade by graduate students in the University of Alabama’s history program for the journal Southern History. In the interviews, ten notable southern...
by H. C. Edwards, George Cary Eggleston
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
What Happened at Quasi is the story of a Carolina Cruise with the stories about Interstate Chumming, The Story of Quasi, A Programme Subject to Circumstances, Tom Fights it Out, A Rather Bad Night, A Little Sport by the Way, An Enemy in Camp, Cal Begins to Do Things, A Fancy Shot, Tom's Discoveries,...
by Alex Acks, C.S.E. Cooney, Matt Dovey
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2018
Nominated for the World Fantasy Award, the Aurealis Award and the Ditmar Award.
Sword and Sonnet contains twenty-three fantasy and science fiction stories featuring battle poets. A poet in search of the dragon her mother banished. A labyrinth that is the last sanctuary against the hunger consuming...
Santa's Christmas Library: 400+ Christmas Novels, Stories, Poems, Carols & Legends (Illustrated Edition)
The Gift of the Magi, A Christmas Carol, Silent Night, The Three Kings, Little Lord Fauntleroy, Life and Adventures of Santa Claus, The Heavenly Christmas Tree, Little Women, The Tale of Peter Rabbit…
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2018
This holiday, we are offering to you our own Christmas box - filled up to the top with the best Christmas novels, classics to read during holidays, magical Christmas tales, legends, most famous carols and the unique poetry of the giants of literature dedicated to this one and only holiday: The Gift...