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  • Presidential Power

    Documents Decoded

    by Brian M. Harward ...
    Series series Documents Decoded
    This volume uses essential and illuminating primary documents as a portal for understanding the evolution and present parameters of presidential power, the relationship between America's three branches of government, and why wartime often leads presidents to claim expansive powers and authority.Presidential Power: Documents Decoded provides a thorough examination of the historical and political ... Read more

    $105.99 CAD

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  • Fire and Fury

    Inside the Trump White House

    by Michael Wolff ...
    #1 New York Times BestsellerWith extraordinary access to the West Wing, Michael Wolff reveals what happened behind-the-scenes in the first nine months of the most controversial presidency of our time in Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House.Since Donald Trump was sworn in as the 45th President of the United States, the country—and the world—has witnessed a stormy, outrageous, and absolutely ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

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  • Promise Me, Dad

    A Year of Hope, Hardship, and Purpose

    by Joe Biden ...
    The instant #1 New York Times bestseller: From President Joe Biden, a deeply moving memoir about the year that would change both a family and a country.In November 2014, thirteen members of the Biden family gathered on Nantucket for Thanksgiving, a tradition they had been celebrating for the past forty years. But this year felt different from all those that had come before. Joe and Jill Biden's ... Read more

    $19.19 CAD

  • Insane Clown President

    Dispatches from the 2016 Circus

    by Matt Taibbi ...
    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Dispatches from the 2016 election that provide an eerily prescient take on our democracy’s uncertain future, by the country’s most perceptive and fearless political journalist.In twenty-five pieces from Rolling Stone—plus two original essays—Matt Taibbi tells the story of Western civilization’s very own train wreck, from its tragicomic beginnings to its apocalyptic ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Game of Thorns

    The Inside Story of Hillary Clinton's Failed Campaign and Donald Trump's Winning Strategy

    by Doug Wead ...
    Here is the first, insider, account of the precipitous fall of Hillary Clinton. How the scandals of a lifetime finally reached critical mass. How, in the last few days of the campaign, some on her staff saw the ghostly shroud of defeat creeping over them but were helpless to act, frozen by the self-denial of the group.Here is an explanation of why the national media and their corporate owners kept ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Despot's Apprentice

    Donald Trump's Attack on Democracy

    by Brian Klaas ...
    ”[A] primer on the threat to democracy posed by—and I can’t believe I’m saying this—the current president of the United States.”—David Litt, New York Times bestselling authorDonald Trump isn’t a despot. But he is increasingly acting like The Despot’s Apprentice, an understudy in authoritarian tactics that threaten to erode American democracy, including:Attacking the pressThreatening rule of law by ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Presidential Leadership and the Creation of the American Era

    by Joseph S. Nye Jr. ...
    Series series The Richard Ullman Lectures
    This book examines the foreign policy decisions of the presidents who presided over the most critical phases of America's rise to world primacy in the twentieth century, and assesses the effectiveness and ethics of their choices. Joseph Nye, who was ranked as one of Foreign Policy magazine's 100 Top Global Thinkers, reveals how some presidents tried with varying success to forge a new ... Read more

    $26.39 CAD

  • The Presidency of George W. Bush

    A First Historical Assessment

    Edited by Julian E. Zelizer ...
    An in-depth look at Bush’s presidency by some of America’s top historiansThe Presidency of George W. Bush brings together some of today's top American historians to offer the first in-depth look at one of the most controversial U.S. presidencies. Emotions surrounding the Bush presidency continue to run high—conservatives steadfastly defend its achievements, liberals call it a disgrace. This book ... Read more

    $50.59 CAD

  • The Liberty of Servants

    Berlusconi's Italy

    by Maurizio Viroli ...
    Translated by Antony Shugaar ...
    A compelling look at how a people can be unfree even though they are not oppressedItaly is a country of free political institutions, yet it has become a nation of servile courtesans, with Silvio Berlusconi as their prince. This is the controversial argument that Italian political philosopher and noted Machiavelli biographer Maurizio Viroli puts forward in The Liberty of Servants. Drawing upon the ... Read more

    $48.39 CAD

  • The Presidential Difference

    Leadership Style from FDR to Barack Obama - Third Edition

    by Fred I. Greenstein ...
    Fred I. Greenstein has long been one of our keenest observers of the modern presidency. In The Presidential Difference, he provides a fascinating and instructive account of the presidential qualities that have served well and poorly in the Oval Office, beginning with Franklin D. Roosevelt's first hundred days. He surveys each president's political skill, vision, cognitive style, organizational ... Read more

    $48.39 CAD

  • The Professor and the President

    Daniel Patrick Moynihan in the Nixon White House

    by Stephen Hess ...
    What happens when a conservative president makes a liberal professor from the Ivy League his top urban affairs adviser? The president is Richard Nixon, the professor is Harvard's Daniel Patrick Moynihan. Of all the odd couples in American public life, they are probably the oddest. Add another Ivy League professor to the White House staff when Nixon appoints Columbia's Arthur Burns, a conservative ... Read more

    $21.29 CAD

  • The Strategic President

    Persuasion and Opportunity in Presidential Leadership

    by George C. Edwards, III, III ...
    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 dominant paradigm of presidential leadership. The Strategic President contends that presidents cannot ... Read more

    $40.69 CAD