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Eyewitness to Watergate
ISBN: 9780872894167 / Angielski / Twarda / 375 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Eyewitness to Watergate traces the events, characters, and outcomes of one of the greatest scandals in U.S. political history. No other work for the high school researcher contains so rich a collection of primary government documents, vital news stories from the time period, and expert, unbiased commentary and analysis.
Eyewitness to Watergate traces the events, characters, and outcomes of one of the greatest scandals in U.S. political history. No other work for the h...
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577,15 zł |
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President George W. Bush: A Remarkable Record of Achievement
ISBN: 9780976090120 / Angielski / Miękka / 48 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This document portrays President George W. Bush's first term as having been among the most consequential and successful in modern times and contends that he has provided steady leadership in the face of unprecedented challenges.
This document portrays President George W. Bush's first term as having been among the most consequential and successful in modern times and contends t...
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43,46 zł |
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America Needs a Woman President
ISBN: 9780976684350 / Angielski / Miękka / 36 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "America Needs a Woman President will appeal to any woman or man of any political persuasion (or none at all) who hungers for wise and bold leadership. It is a love poem, a visionary rant, a call to action, a cry for sanity. America needs this funny, brilliant, and beautiful book."--Elizabeth Lesser, author of The New American Spirituality Imagine a president who leads with a mother's love, the forgiving humor of a grandmother, and the wisdom of a medicine woman. These words, beautifully illustrated by artist Eben Dodd, give hope for a new paradigm of leadership at a... "America Needs a Woman President will appeal to any woman or man of any political persuasion (or none at all) who hungers for wise and bold ... |
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52,42 zł |
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Attention Deficit Democracy
ISBN: 9781403976666 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Is American democracy in a death spiral? Why do Americans ignore political frauds and swallow pervasive lies from president after president, in campaign after campaign? In Attention Deficit Democracy, James Bovard diagnoses a national malady whose symptoms include a citizenry indifferent to facts and unable to judge when their rights are under attack. He exposes the frightening national reality of absolute presidential power and argues that our current myopia has dire consequences for America's future. His is an authentic voice urging citizens to return to the principles of the... Is American democracy in a death spiral? Why do Americans ignore political frauds and swallow pervasive lies from president after president, in cam... |
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100,42 zł |
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Religion and the American Presidency
ISBN: 9781403977717 / Angielski / Twarda / 302 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume opens a new avenue toward understanding the politics and policies of many US presidents. As the essays in this book reveal, religion has had an enormous impact on many critical presidencies in US history. Contrary to the conventional wisdom, these essays reveal the deeply religious side to Truman, Eisenhower, and Reagan, among others.
This volume opens a new avenue toward understanding the politics and policies of many US presidents. As the essays in this book reveal, religion has h...
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195,42 zł |
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Religion and the Bush Presidency
ISBN: 9781403980076 / Angielski / Twarda / 268 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. George W. Bush has invited more analysis and controversy over the impact of religion on his presidency than perhaps any chief executive of the modern era. Opinion on Bush's religiosity is intensely divisive, with conservative evangelicals seeing him as a man of deep faith and principles and at the same time many progressives seeing the president as almost dangerously fanatical. This volume is a scholarly review and analysis of the role of religion in the Bush presidency. It is divided into two sections of essays by leading scholars: The first examines the impact of various religious voting...
George W. Bush has invited more analysis and controversy over the impact of religion on his presidency than perhaps any chief executive of the modern ...
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195,42 zł |
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Is George Bush the Antichrist?
ISBN: 9781411609839 / Angielski / Miękka / 211 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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86,59 zł |
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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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72,51 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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121,89 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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67,32 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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130,82 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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117,89 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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787,03 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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157,35 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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62,91 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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119,29 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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386,61 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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220,03 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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109,16 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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126,63 zł |
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