The Environmental Presidency (SUNY series on the Presidency: Contemporary Issues)
Although the framers gave the president little authority, George Washington knew whatever he did would set precedents for generations of future leaders. To ensure their ability to defend the nation, he simply ignored the Constitution when he thought it necessary. In a revealing new look at the birth of American government, "Mr. President" describes Washington's presidency in a time of continual crisis, as rebellion and attacks by foreign enemies threatened to destroy this new nation. Constantly...
An essential responsibility of the U.S. Congress is holding the president accountable for the conduct of foreign policy. In this in-depth look at formal oversight hearings by the Senate Armed Services and Foreign Relations committees, Linda Fowler evaluates how the legislature's most visible and important watchdogs performed from the mid-twentieth century to the present. She finds a noticeable reduction in public and secret hearings since the mid-1990s and establishes that American foreign polic...
Looks at how the office of the presidency has changed, argues that the president has become too central to national politics, and suggests ways to restore the constitutional balance.
The So Called Same-Sex Marriage, Sweet But The Most Horrific Enemy
by Hea Sook Son
Exploring the Unknown - Selected Documents in the History of the U.S. Civilian Space Program Volume II
by Dwayne A. Day, Roger D. Launius, and John M. Logsdon
A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents Volume 4 Part 2
by James D Richardson
The Republican Impeachment Rebuttal
by House of Representative On Intelligence
"The 1990s was a decade of extreme change. Seismic shifts in culture, politics, and technology radically altered the way Americans did business, expressed themselves, and thought about their role in the world. At the center of it all was Bill Clinton, the talented, charismatic, and flawed Baby Boomer president and his controversial, polarizing, but increasingly popular wife Hillary. Although it was in many ways a Democratic Gilded Age, the final decade of the twentieth century was also a time of...
Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States, Ronald Reagan, 1981, Book 1, January 20 to December 31, 1981
The American presidency is not what it once was. Nor, Stephen F. Knott contends, what it was meant to be. Taking on an issue as timely as Donald Trump's latest tweet and old as the American republic, the distinguished presidential scholar documents the devolution of the American presidency from the neutral, unifying office envisioned by the framers of the Constitution into the demagogic, partisan entity of our day. The presidency of popular consent, or the majoritarian presidency that we have t...
With sharp, detail-filled style Morris and McGann are sure to stir up controversy with the hard facts laid out in this book. From claims about the slave state of Dubai; secretly buying everything from MGM to the Queen Mary to credit card companies abuse; charging interest every way they can, Screen-Studios product; and, placing tobacco in PG films and outrageous corporate salaries: $249M for Capital One's CEO, $230M for Yahoo's - this book is sure to add fuel to the election fires.
Though practically unknown to the public today, Stephen T. Early was one of the most influential men in mid-twentieth-century America. As the press secretary of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, he was chiefly responsible for getting the president's message out to the press and he helped to shape Roosevelt's image in the eyes of Americans through the dramatic years of the Great Depression and World War II. It is no exaggeration to say that, had there been no Stephen Early, the presidency of Frank...
The Presidencies of William Henry Harrison and John Tyler (American Presidency)
by Norma Lois Peterson
Wearied by the hotly contested Log Cabin and Hard Cider campaign that unseated the Democratic incumbent, Martin Van Buren, Harrison succumbed to pneumonia after only one month in office, the first chief executive to die in the White House. His death precipitated a governmental crisis, which Vice President John Tyler promptly resolved--to the consternation of his Whig Party--by claiming the office and title of president, thus setting a precedent that only later was codified in the Twenty-fifth Am...