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Documents Decoded eBook Series

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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

    R1 151,25

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  • Decision Points

    by George W. Bush ...
    Decision Points is the extraordinary memoir of America's 43rd president. Shattering the conventions of political autobiography, George W. Bush offers a strikingly candid journey through the defining decisions of his life.In gripping, never-before-heard detail, President George W. Bush brings readers inside the Texas Governor's Mansion on the night of the hotly contested 2000 election; aboard Air ... Read more

    R379,14

  • 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

    R366,26

  • A Cruel and Shocking Act

    The Secret History of the Kennedy Assassination

    by Philip Shenon ...
    The questions have haunted our nation for half a century: Was the President killed by a single gunman? Was Lee Harvey Oswald part of a conspiracy? Did the Warren Commission discover the whole truth of what happened on November 22, 1963?Philip Shenon, a veteran investigative journalist who spent most of his career at The New York Times, finally provides many of the answers. Though A CRUEL AND ... Read more

    R357,29

  • 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

    R703,44

  • 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

    R672,85

  • 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

    R672,85

  • 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

    R241,83

  • 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

    R565,79

  • Inventing the Job of President

    Leadership Style from George Washington to Andrew Jackson

    by Fred I. Greenstein ...
    How the early presidents shaped America's highest officeFrom George Washington's decision to buy time for the new nation by signing the less-than-ideal Jay Treaty with Great Britain in 1795 to George W. Bush's order of a military intervention in Iraq in 2003, the matter of who is president of the United States is of the utmost importance. In this book, Fred Greenstein examines the leadership ... Read more

    R350,97

  • Barack Obama and the Myth of a Post-Racial America

    Edited by Mark Ledwidge, Kevern Verney, Inderjeet Parmar ...
    Series series Routledge Series on Identity Politics
    The 2008 presidential election was celebrated around the world as a seminal moment in U.S. political and racial history. White liberals and other progressives framed the election through the prism of change, while previously acknowledged demographic changes were hastily heralded as the dawn of a "post-racial" America. However, by 2011, much of the post-election idealism had dissipated in the wake ... Read more

    R1 308,21

  • Killing Machine

    The American Presidency in the Age of Drone Warfare

    by Lloyd C. Gardner ...
    With Obama's election to the presidency in 2008, many believed the United States had entered a new era: Obama came into office with high expectations that he would end the war in Iraq and initiate a new foreign policy that would reestablish American values and the United States' leadership role in the world.In this shattering new assessment, historian Lloyd C. Gardner argues that, despite cosmetic ... Read more

    R412,15 or Free with Kobo Plus