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Donald Trump won election as the 45th President of the United States by studying American political stagecraft and learning what helped previous candidates succeed and doomed others to failure. A figure on the periphery of campaigns for decades, he glided down the Trump Tower escalator on June 16, 2015, declared his candidacy and took his place, permanently, as an actor in the country's greatest spectacle.
Twenty-eight years earlier, at the dawn...
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For scholars, pundits, the public, and presidents themselves, presidential approval is an evergreen subject. Its actual impact, however, is often unclear: all too frequently approval is reported in a vacuum, dissociated from the American state writ large. Presidential Leverage reaffirms the importance of this contested metric. By situating approval within the context of public trust in government, Daniel E. Ponder reveals how approval shapes presidential...
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The Bush administration is out but the American public continues to suffer from its disastrous domestic and foreign policies. In this excellently documented work, presidential scholar Shirley Anne Warshaw offers an in-depth analysis and exploration of the political maneuvering that got us into our current mess. Combining her study of the motivations of both Dick Cheney and George W. Bush, knowledge of the spheres in which they operated, and personal...
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You have never campaigned for President? Isn''t it about time you did? Why let the rich and powerful have all the fun? This is a funny, informative guide for the presidential candidate. It covers such topics as what's involved in filing, whether to journey to New Hampshire for the primary or conduct an inexpensive front porch campaign, relations with the news media, what to say if you find yourself in a room with the other presidential candidates,...
5) Obama's Radical Transformation Of America: Year One: The Survival Of Socialism In A Post-Soviet Era
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In only one year, Obama has saddled Americans with a skyrocketing deficit that will leave future generations deeply in debt; a health-care plan that prescribes a cure worse than the illness; catastrophically expensive environmental schemes; and a foreign policy that appeases enemies and punishes friends. In this frank and insightful Broadside, Joshua Muravchikanalyzes these and Obama's other misguided efforts to "fundamentally transform" America during...
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Benghazi could have spelled disaster for Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama. With Clinton's assistance, Obama and his cast of troubadours masterfully concealed known policy failures, inadequate funding and totally lax security directly leading to the deaths of four Americans in Libya. Now, with only 52 days remaining until the 2012 general election, something had to happen to salvage what remained of their political careers. Based on the newly released...
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Born in Ghana, the gold coast of Africa, Tannor has witnessed firsthand the positive impact Hillary Rodham Clinton has made in the United States and worldwide, especially his home country. Recognizing her as the "ideal woman," he questions the sexism that still exists in American politics and continues to plague Clinton's run for the highest office in the free world. Tannor breaks down much of the misinformation her competitors use against her regarding...
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The winner of the presidential election will need to get quickly up-to-speed on how to manage the government. What are the likely issues he will encounter on the first day in the Oval Office? What does he do about the cost of the Iraq War? He'll get blamed if there's another terrorist attack, so what does he need to do that first day and the days and weeks to come to realistically and prudently prevent such an attack? How's the economy? What kind...
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What's happening in global politics? As if overnight, many Democrats revolted and passionately backed a socialist named Bernie Sanders; the United Kingdom voted to leave the European Union; the vituperative billionaire Donald Trump became the presidential nominee of the Republican party; and a slew of rebellious parties continued to win elections in Switzerland, Norway, Italy, Austria, and Greece. John B. Judis, one of America's most respected political...
12) My Views
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This booklet is a compilation of my views on several critical subjects of concern in our current national situation. Some whimsical and tongue and cheek, but the majority very serious. It is addressed to our various representatives in Congress and some members of the administration who are mired in disfunctionality and lack the backbone to resolve issues and lead the way forward.
Contentious times in our society have become a norm. While there are...
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We still imagine ourselves a nation of laws, not of men. This is not merely an article of faith but a bedrock principle of the United States Constitution. Our founding compact provides a remedy against rulers supplanting the rule of law, and Andrew C. McCarthy makes a compelling case for using it. The authors of the Constitution saw practical reasons to place awesome powers in a single chief executive, who could act quickly and decisively in times...
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When he was elected in 2008, Barack Obama had vowed to close Guantánamo, put an end to coercive interrogation and military tribunals, and restore American principles of justice. Yet by the end of his first term, he had backtracked on each of these promises, ramping up the secret war of drone strikes and covert operations. Behind the scenes, wrenching debates between hawks and doves-those who would kill versus those who would capture-repeatedly tested...
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Thirty years after the Church Committee unearthed COINTELPRO and other instances of illicit executive behavior on the domestic and international fronts, the Bush administration has elevated the flaws identified by the committee into first principles of government. Through a constellation of non-public laws and opaque, unaccountable institutions, the current administration has created a "secret presidency" run by classified presidential decisions and...
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On January 8, 2011 a gunman opened fire in the parking lot of a Tucson, Arizona supermarket, where U. S. Representative Gabrielle Giffords was holding an opening meeting with her constituents. Nineteen people were wounded, and six people died. Four days later, at a memorial service at the McKale Memorial Center at the University of Arizona, President Obama gave a speech that remembered those who had died, gave thanks to the heroes of that day, and...
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Central America was the final place where U.S. and Soviet proxy forces faced off against one another in armed conflict. In The Cold War's Last Battlefield, Edward A. Lynch blends his own first-hand experiences as a member of the Reagan Central America policy team with interviews of policy makers and exhaustive study of primary source materials, including once-secret government documents, in order to recount these largely forgotten events and how they...
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In this insightful study, Paul Y. Hammond, an experienced analyst of bureaucratic politics, adapts and extends that approach to explain and evaluate the Johnson administration's performance in foreign relations in terms that have implications for the post—Cold War era. The book is structured around three case studies of Johnson's foreign policy decision making. The first study examines economic and political development. It explores the way Johnson...
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