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Bush, George W. (George Walker) 1946- Political and social views Executive power Executive power United States Executive power United States History Executive power United States History 19th century Lincoln, Abraham 1809-1865 Military leadership Presidents United States Biography United States United States History Civil War, 1861-1865 United States Politics and government 1861-1865Stephanopoulos, George
Summary: "George Stephanopoulos, former senior advisor to President Clinton and for more than 20 years host of This Week and Good Morning America, recounts never-before-told crises that decided the course of history, from the place 12 presidents made their highest-pressure decisions: the White House Situation Room. No room better defines American power and its role in the world than the White House...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central 2024
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 973.09 STEBeschloss, Michael R.
Summary: Presidential historian Michael Beschloss uses original letters, diaries, declassified documents, and interviews to bring us into the room and into the minds of a procession of Chief Executives who took the nation into major conflicts, mobilized Americans for victory, and seized greater power for themselves. From James Madison and the War of 1812 to Lyndon Johnson and Vietnam, we see these...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 355.00973 BESSCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: 355.00973 BOSSullivan, Kevin
Summary: "Sullivan and Jordan deftly illuminate the aims and calculations of key figures. The narrative spools out amid Trump's nonstop tweeting and the infinite echo chamber of social media, which amplified both parties' messages. Sullivan and Jordan, aided by editor Steve Luxenberg, follow the story into the aftermath of Trump's acquittal and the president's payback for those whom he believed had...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 342.73 SULBlumenthal, Sidney
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Publisher / Publication Date: Princeton University Press 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.931 BLUFeldman, Noah
Summary: "An innovative account of Abraham Lincoln, constitutional thinker and doer"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.7092 FELHennessey, Susan
Summary: "How Donald Trump has reshaped the norms of the American presidency"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.933 HENMcPherson, James M.
Summary: Evaluates Lincoln's talents as a commander in chief in spite of limited military experience, tracing the ways in which he worked with, or against, his senior commanders to defeat the Confederacy and reshape the presidential role.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 LINCOLN, ABRAHAM MCPJarecki, Eugene.
Summary: In the sobering aftermath of America's invasion of Iraq, documentarian Jarecki launches a penetrating inquiry into how forces within the American political, economic, and military systems have come to undermine the carefully crafted structure of our republic--upsetting its balance of powers, vastly strengthening the hand of the president in taking the nation to war, and imperiling the workings...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Free Press 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.931 JARSavage, Charlie.
Summary: A critical investigation into how the Bush-Cheney administration has worked to increase presidential power at the cost of democratic constitutional balance reveals a range of questionable executive practices, from wiretapping and conservative judicial nominations to torture and imprisonment without trial.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.931 SAVSchlesinger, Arthur M Jr.
Summary: The title uses the past to illuminate the present and the future. Presidential power, it points out, has been nurtured above all by war.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 1973
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973 SCHMcPherson, James M.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2008
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 973.7092 MCPGergen, David R. (David Richmond)
Summary: An advisor to Nixon and later presidents discusses seven elements of presidential leadership: personal character, moral vision, political skills, media savvy, judgment in choosing advisors, and an interest one's legacy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2000