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The American Ali Baba: George W. Bush and His 40 Thieves
ISBN: 9781418486709 / Angielski / Miękka / 120 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In The American Ali Baba, the author draws an amazing parallel between an ancient Arabic folktale and the tragedy of the current American Presidency. Full of intrigue and drama, both plots revolve around thievery, lies, deception, trickery and murder, all veiled in intense secrecy. Both stories portray central characters on greedy missions to amass a fortune, at the expense of others. The book presents an abbreviated version of the ancient tale and an overview of the American forefathers' intent and Bill of Rights. Finally, the modern tragedy unfolds through a clear, concise examination of...
In The American Ali Baba, the author draws an amazing parallel between an ancient Arabic folktale and the tragedy of the current American Presidency. ...
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67,63 zł |
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The American Ali Baba: George W. Bush and His 40 Thieves
ISBN: 9781418486716 / Angielski / Twarda / 120 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In The American Ali Baba, the author draws an amazing parallel between an ancient Arabic folktale and the tragedy of the current American Presidency. Full of intrigue and drama, both plots revolve around thievery, lies, deception, trickery and murder, all veiled in intense secrecy. Both stories portray central characters on greedy missions to amass a fortune, at the expense of others. The book presents an abbreviated version of the ancient tale and an overview of the American forefathers' intent and Bill of Rights. Finally, the modern tragedy unfolds through a clear, concise examination of...
In The American Ali Baba, the author draws an amazing parallel between an ancient Arabic folktale and the tragedy of the current American Presidency. ...
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113,68 zł |
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A Letter to America: Is President Bush Leading Us in the Right Direction?
ISBN: 9781418495299 / Angielski / Miękka / 135 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Currently, there are many books which have been written documenting the issues of the Bush Presidency; A Letter to America draws the reader a clearer more concise picture of major policies of this White House. The author, a trauma surgeon, uses multiple forms of data to analyze and treat an injured patient. He uses those same skills to dissect the policies of Bush's White House. Written in a fluid, crisp style, the author draws on his experience as a surgeon and an American to examine the White House from many angles. He leads one to the conclusion that the only prescription for America is...
Currently, there are many books which have been written documenting the issues of the Bush Presidency; A Letter to America draws the reader a clearer ...
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62,78 zł |
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Personality, Character, and Leadership in the White House: Psychologists Assess the Presidents
ISBN: 9781574888164 / Angielski / Miękka / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Personality, Character, and Leadership in the White House is the first book-length work to present truly scientific personality evaluations of the American presidents. This benchmark work dramatically improves the state-of-the-art in classifying presidents and predicting performance in the White House. Dr. Steven Rubenzer and Dr. Thomas Faschingbauer asked 120 experts, including biographers, historians, presidential advisers, and other knowledge-able sources, to rate the presidents by filling out standardized personality tests. For each president that fell within their area of...
Personality, Character, and Leadership in the White House is the first book-length work to present truly scientific personality evaluations of ...
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122,02 zł |
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Power and Prudence: The Presidency of George H. W. Bush
ISBN: 9781585442911 / Angielski / Twarda / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. When George H. W. Bush took office in January 1989, he brought to the presidency an impressive resume. A former member of Congress, national party leader, CIA director, ambassador to China, and two-term vice president, he had the credentials and experience for a uniquely successful presidency. Less than four years later, the American electorate resoundingly proclaimed his administration a failure. Many pundits and scholars have echoed the voters' judgement. In a considered and balanced reassessment, Mark J. Rozell and Ryan J. Barilleaux ask whether the public and the pundits have applied the...
When George H. W. Bush took office in January 1989, he brought to the presidency an impressive resume. A former member of Congress, national party lea...
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163,40 zł |
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The Prospect of Presidential Rhetoric
ISBN: 9781585446278 / Angielski / Miękka / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Culminating a decade of conferences that have explored presidential speech, The Prospect of Presidential Rhetoric assesses progress and suggests directions for both the practice of presidential speech and its study.
In Part One, following an analytic review of the field by Martin Medhurst, contributors address the state of the art in their own areas of expertise. Roderick P. Hart then summarizes their work in the course of his rebuttal of an argument made by political scientist George Edwards: that presidential rhetoric lacks political impact. Part Two of the volume consists of the... Culminating a decade of conferences that have explored presidential speech, The Prospect of Presidential Rhetoric assesses progress and suggests direc...
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136,99 zł |
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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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109,96 zł |
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The Effective Presidency: Lessons on Leadership from John F. Kennedy to George W. Bush
ISBN: 9781594514104 / Angielski / Twarda / 284 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Every four years the American public goes to the polls in hopes of electing a hero to the presidency, trying to find someone larger than life. But heroes are hard to find and sometimes they turn out to be villains. Senior presidential scholar Erwin Hargrove recommends that we shift our sights to electing an effective president instead, and here he shows us how to assess effective presidencies. To address the central question of whether presidents make a difference, Hargrove asks about the most important things each president attempted. He finds that much of the time, "eventful" leadership...
Every four years the American public goes to the polls in hopes of electing a hero to the presidency, trying to find someone larger than life. But her...
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801,19 zł |
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Effective Presidency: Lessons on Leadership from John F. Kennedy to Barack Obama
ISBN: 9781594514111 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Every four years the American public goes to the polls in hopes of electing a hero to the presidency, trying to find someone larger than life. But heroes are hard to find and sometimes they turn out to be villains. Senior presidential scholar Erwin Hargrove recommends that we shift our sights to electing an effective president instead, and here he shows us how to assess effective presidencies. To address the central question of whether presidents make a difference, Hargrove asks about the most important things each president attempted. He finds that much of the time, "eventful" leadership...
Every four years the American public goes to the polls in hopes of electing a hero to the presidency, trying to find someone larger than life. But her...
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160,19 zł |
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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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60,04 zł |
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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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111,26 zł |
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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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368,97 zł |
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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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89,63 zł |
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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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205,64 zł |
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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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101,81 zł |
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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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118,10 zł |
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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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423,76 zł |
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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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250,37 zł |
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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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93,66 zł |
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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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110,11 zł |
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