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Bush League Diplomacy: How the Neoconservatives Are Putting the World at Risk
ISBN: 9781591021766 / Angielski / Twarda / 268 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Argues how the Bush administration has destroyed years of foreign policy accomplishments, and discusses how the United States needs to improve its reputation in the global community.
Argues how the Bush administration has destroyed years of foreign policy accomplishments, and discusses how the United States needs to improve its rep...
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138,33 |
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Presidents' Most Wanted: The Top 10 Book of Extraordinary Executives, Colorful Campaigns, and White House Oddities
ISBN: 9781597970747 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The presidency is a special office. Along with the vice president, the victorious candidate is our only nationally elected official, and the position has come to symbolize American government worldwide. In many ways, the office is greater than the people who have occupied it. In the 200-plus years of our nation's history, the presidency has grown and evolved dramatically. With the exception of Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Jackson, the nineteenth-century office holders exerted little executive power and mostly deferred to Congress on domestic affairs. Teddy Roosevelt began to change all that,...
The presidency is a special office. Along with the vice president, the victorious candidate is our only nationally elected official, and the position ...
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53,82 |
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Empire Burlesque - High Crimes and Low Comedy in the Bush Imperium
ISBN: 9781847289704 / Angielski / Miękka / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Secret History of the Bush Regime From the Award-Winning journalist comes a much-anticipated collection of his penetrating and prescient coverage of the Bush Administration. Never has the American Republic stood in such a degraded state as it does today: terrorized, militarized, subjected to arbitrary rule, riddled with corruption, despised and feared around the world - and more exposed to attack than ever before. How the hell did we get here? Empire Burlesque tells the tale, giving us the secret history of the Bush Regime - the backroom deals, the covert ops, and the monstrous betrayals...
The Secret History of the Bush Regime From the Award-Winning journalist comes a much-anticipated collection of his penetrating and prescient coverage ...
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105,24 |
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The Executive Branch of Federal Government: People, Process, and Politics
ISBN: 9781851097913 / Angielski / Twarda / 511 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. How has the role of the president changed since George Washington? How does the president interact with Congress? The courts? The states? Other nations? These are just a few of the overarching questions addressed in this volume in ABC-CLIO's About Federal Government set devoted to the president and the executive branch he manages. "The Executive Branch of the Federal Government" provides a brief history of the presidency, then looks at the constitutional powers of the office, the day-to-day functions of the federal bureaucracy, general elections, and presidential relationships with... How has the role of the president changed since George Washington? How does the president interact with Congress? The courts? The states? Other nat... |
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360,89 |
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A Tragic Legacy: How a Good vs. Evil Mentality Destroyed the Bush Presidency
ISBN: 9780307354280 / Angielski / Miękka / 321 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The first true character study of a lost president and his disastrous legacy
In this fascinating, timely book, Glenn Greenwald examines the Bush presidency and its long-term effect on the nation, charting the rise and steep fall of the current administration, dissecting the rhetoric, and revealing the faulty ideals upon which George W. Bush built his policies. Enlightening and eye-opening, this is a powerful look at the man whose incapability and cowboy logic have left America at risk. The first true character study of a lost president and his disastrous legacy
In this fascinating, timely book, Glenn Greenwald examines the Bush p... |
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84,78 |
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Undermining Science: Suppression and Distortion in the Bush Administration
ISBN: 9780520256262 / Angielski / Miękka / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This vitally important expose shows how the Bush administration has systematically misled Americans on a wide range of scientific issues affecting public health, foreign policy, and the environment by ignoring, suppressing, manipulating, or even distorting scientific research. It is the first book to focus exclusively on how this explosive issue has played out during the presidency of George W. Bush and the first to comprehensively document his administration's abuses of science. This paperback edition contains a new preface bringing to light the most up-to-date research on these abuses....
This vitally important expose shows how the Bush administration has systematically misled Americans on a wide range of scientific issues affecting pub...
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194,85 |
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Takeover: The Return of the Imperial Presidency and the Subversion of American Democracy
ISBN: 9780316118057 / Angielski / Miękka / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Praised everywhere as a stunning work of reportage, TAKEOVER lays bare a hidden agenda, three decades in the making, to allow the White House to wield enormous powers, unchecked by Congres or the courts--an agenda that links warrantless wiretapping and Bush's judicial nominees, torture and Cheney's energy task force, the faith-based initiative and the imprisonment of citizens without trial. TAKEOVER tells the story of how a group of true believers, led by Cheney, set out to establish near-monarchical executive powers that, in the words of one conservative critic, "will lie around like a...
Praised everywhere as a stunning work of reportage, TAKEOVER lays bare a hidden agenda, three decades in the making, to allow the White House to wield...
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96,30 |
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Dead Certain: The Presidency of George W. Bush
ISBN: 9780743277297 / Angielski / Miękka / 480 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this ambitious work of political narrative, Robert Draper takes us inside the Bush White House and delivers an intimate portrait of a tumultuous decade and an embattled administration.Virtually every page of this book crackles with scenes, anecdotes, and dialogue based on access to every principal actor in the Bush administration, including six newsmaking interviews with the president himself.
In this ambitious work of political narrative, Robert Draper takes us inside the Bush White House and delivers an intimate portrait of a tumultuous de...
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111,71 |
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The Anti-Intellectual Presidency: The Decline of Presidential Rhetoric from George Washington to George W. Bush
ISBN: 9780195342642 / Angielski / Twarda / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Why has it been so long since an American president has effectively and consistently presented well-crafted, intellectually substantive arguments to the American public? Why have presidential utterances fallen from the rousing speeches of Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt, Wilson, and FDR to a series of robotic repetitions of talking points and sixty-second soundbites, largely designed to obfuscate rather than illuminate? In The Anti-Intellectual Presidency, Elvin Lim draws on interviews with more than 40 presidential speechwriters to investigate this relentless qualitative decline, over...
Why has it been so long since an American president has effectively and consistently presented well-crafted, intellectually substantive arguments to t...
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437,82 |
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The Presidency, the Public, and the Parties
ISBN: 9780872899575 / Angielski / Miękka / 241 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume examines the presidents historical and current relationships with a political parties, the news media, the general public, and interest groups. It considers how presidential leadership depends on its ability to gain the support or acquiescence of key constituencies outside government. Thoroughly updated with coverage through the second term of George W. Bush, The Presidency, the Public, and the Parties, Third Edition includes a new chapter that looks at the presidency in popular culture. The introduction is written by Michael Nelson, Fulmer Professor of Political Science at Rhodes...
This volume examines the presidents historical and current relationships with a political parties, the news media, the general public, and interest gr...
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244,89 |
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Utter Incompetents: Ego and Ideology in the Age of Bush
ISBN: 9780312385668 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Tom Oliphant is one of the true chroniclers of America. He uses his wit and wisdom to offer critical, insightful, and loving observations of our politics, culture, and society. He is the Will Rogers of our time." ---Madeleine Albright The collapse of the Bush presidency is a broadly acknowledged fact. By any fair assessment, much of the past seven years has been disastrous. The challenge is to understand why. From domestic policy to international goofs, from soaring energy prices to the health care crisis---Thomas Oliphant tackles it all, closely inspecting the initial... "Tom Oliphant is one of the true chroniclers of America. He uses his wit and wisdom to offer critical, insightful, and loving observations of our p... |
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88,59 |
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Ambushed!: A Cartoon History of the George W. Bush Administration
ISBN: 9781594515828 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist teams up with a noted political commentator. For everyone who loves to hate the Bush administration and is ready to laugh about it Ambushed recounts the exploits of the Bush administration, at home and abroad, 2001 to 2008, through the lens of a Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist for the Miami Herald and the analysis of a leading political scientist at Boston University and Harvard University. The book begins with the ways in which American voters were ambushed in two presidential elections and ranges widely among the ensuing disasters from Enron...
A Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist teams up with a noted political commentator. For everyone who loves to hate the Bush administration and ...
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107,70 |
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Winning the White House, 2004: Region by Region, Vote by Vote
ISBN: 9781403968807 / Angielski / Twarda / 223 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. What does it take to win the White House? This book helps students understand both the issues and how and why people vote for one candidate. After discussing the dynamics of the primary campaigns, the authors examine three broad sets of issues that play a key role in voting: foreign policy, domestic policies, and the culture wars. This sets the foundations for an examination of regional similarities and differences in voting patterns, as the varying salience and valence of issues-whether general or specific-is explored across and within regions. Special attention is paid to battleground...
What does it take to win the White House? This book helps students understand both the issues and how and why people vote for one candidate. After dis...
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201,24 |
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Eloquence Of The United States V4 (1827)
ISBN: 9780548886694 / Angielski / Miękka / 512 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.
This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia...
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176,74 |
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President & Foreign Policy: Chieft Architect or General Contractor?
ISBN: 9781594544903 / Angielski / Twarda / 121 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Represent attempts to understand presidential foreign policymaking in a global context. Within the parameters of the metaphorical question, the authors analyse the Atoms for Peace and Star Wars proposals of the Eisenhower and Reagan presidencies. They assess foreign policymaking in the William J Clinton and George W Bush administrations.
Represent attempts to understand presidential foreign policymaking in a global context. Within the parameters of the metaphorical question, the author...
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572,21 |
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First Woman President
ISBN: 9781604565720 / Angielski / Miękka Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Gathers a variety of gender issues relating to the US presidency including, issues on presidential campaigns and other roles activated by women in the White House. This book dives into the controversy of female presidents for future America.
Gathers a variety of gender issues relating to the US presidency including, issues on presidential campaigns and other roles activated by women in the...
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206,17 |
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Spinner in Chief: How Presidents Sell Their Policies and Themselves
ISBN: 9781594512674 / Angielski / Twarda / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. As the U.S. enters the last lap of the 2008 presidential election season, the media and the candidates are in full gear exploiting each other, often at the expense of public information and awareness. This book looks at how presidents and presidential candidates use television, the Internet, and newspapers to promote their policies and themselves, even as they are sometimes manipulated by the media they so avidly seek. Looking at White House media strategies relating to the Iraq War and occupation, health care reform, tax and budget debates, the debate over Bush's competence, the...
As the U.S. enters the last lap of the 2008 presidential election season, the media and the candidates are in full gear exploiting each other, often a...
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538,76 |
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Spinner in Chief: How Presidents Sell Their Policies and Themselves
ISBN: 9781594512681 / Angielski / Miękka / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. As the U.S. enters the last lap of the 2008 presidential election season, the media and the candidates are in full gear exploiting each other, often at the expense of public information and awareness. This book looks at how presidents and presidential candidates use television, the Internet, and newspapers to promote their policies and themselves, even as they are sometimes manipulated by the media they so avidly seek. Looking at White House media strategies relating to the Iraq War and occupation, health care reform, tax and budget debates, the debate over Bush's competence, the...
As the U.S. enters the last lap of the 2008 presidential election season, the media and the candidates are in full gear exploiting each other, often a...
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146,88 |
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On the Presidency: Teacher, Soldier, Shaman, Pol
ISBN: 9781594514906 / Angielski / Twarda / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In an election year in which everyone seems to be looking for change, Tom Cronin reminds us that it is important to look back at presidential precedents and pitfalls, carrying forward these lessons as we look ahead in the "search for the perfect president." America has never had a perfect president, nor are we likely to. We yearn for qualities of mind, character, and experience that are rarely found in one person. Candidates always have the flaws associated with being human. Noted presidential scholar Thomas E. Cronin helps us consider these realities with clarity and empathy, as one who has...
In an election year in which everyone seems to be looking for change, Tom Cronin reminds us that it is important to look back at presidential preceden...
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783,64 |
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On the Presidency: Teacher, Soldier, Shaman, Pol
ISBN: 9781594514913 / Angielski / Miękka / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In an election year in which everyone seems to be looking for change, Tom Cronin reminds us that it is important to look back at presidential precedents and pitfalls, carrying forward these lessons as we look ahead in the "search for the perfect president." America has never had a perfect president, nor are we likely to. We yearn for qualities of mind, character, and experience that are rarely found in one person. Candidates always have the flaws associated with being human. Noted presidential scholar Thomas E. Cronin helps us consider these realities with clarity and empathy, as one who has...
In an election year in which everyone seems to be looking for change, Tom Cronin reminds us that it is important to look back at presidential preceden...
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181,17 |
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