books about: presidency     books:       The Terror Presidency: Law and Judgment Inside the Bush Administration29 reviews Jack L. Goldsmith W. W. Norton, 2007 A very important look at a critical issue I found this to be an extremely valuable book on a radioactive topic--the purported legal justifications for the Bush Administration's "war on terror" and its treatment of detainees. The book takes an unique perspective--the author served for 9 months as the head of the Office of Legal Counsel ("OLC") at the Department of Justice. Those of us who are "alums" of DOJ know how critical the work of ...             Angler: The Cheney Vice Presidency9 reviews Barton Gellman Penguin Press HC, The, 2008 Angler As a reader with advanced degrees in Political Science and Public Policy, and 20 years of employment in senior government service, this is the best expose with the required restraint and research that I have read in 30 years. A MASTERPIECE.             The Evolving Presidency: Landmark Documents, 1787-2008 (Evolving Presidency: Landmark Documents)1 review Michael Nelson CQ Press, 2007 Excellent Primary Sourcebook Compilation My upper-division undergraduate Political Science class has been assigned this as one of our requisite books, and it has proven a great help as a supplement. Perhaps I use the wrong word in "supplement"; the documents contained in these books are often integral to understanding the broader concepts presented in class. Given that there are easily hundreds of important, formative ...             The Presidency And The Political System3 reviews CQ Press, 2005 It looks boring, but is isn't This is a collection of essays on the presidency. It doesn't look like an interesting book, but many of the pieces are in fact quite interesting. The book covers many different aspects of the presidency, and one can learn a lot merely by reading this book. Although it is definitely an academic book, it is not so dry that it cannot be read by those that are not involved with academics.             The Imperial Presidency8 reviews Jr. Arthur M. Schlesinger Mariner Books, 2004 Back and Improved...At Last! The year before George W. Bush took office as president I attended a professional conference where a graduate student offered a paper that posed the question whether Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.'s "Imperial Presidency" was still valid. Quite a debate ensued. Today, in the wake of the Bush Doctrine of preemptive war, and its application in Iraq, I am compelled to offer that this revised volume, ...             The Cult of the Presidency: America's Dangerous Devotion to Executive Power8 reviews Gene Healy Cato Institute, 2008 A blend of scholarly research, legal analysis, and cultural commentary THE CULT OF THE PRESIDENCY: AMERICA'S DANGEROUS DEVOTION TO EXECUTIVE POWER emphasizes that just changing the presidency does not eliminate the concerns the Bush years have provoked over a resurgent Imperial Presidency. This book argues that the fault lies not in what leader is in office, but in our own expectations and definitions of the commander-in-chief, and chapters offer a blend of ...             The Anti-Intellectual Presidency: The Decline of Presidential Rhetoric from George Washington to George W. ...2 reviews Elvin T. Lim Oxford University Press, USA, 2008 Lim provides the proof This book offers compelling proof that presidents have dumbed down their public speech in the last two centuries. It is one of the very few political books I've read that is not at all partisan - Lim places equal blame on Clinton as he does on Bush. Lim nevertheless makes it clear that because presidents now tell us what we want to hear rather than what we need to hear, we are headed for ...             The American Presidency: Origins and Development, 1776-2007, 5th Edition (American Presidency (CQ)) Sidney M. Milkis and Michael Nelson CQ Press, 2007             The Modern Presidency1 review James P. Pfiffner Wadsworth Publishing, 2007 Outstanding and Fascinating Modern Presidency Reading The material has been thoroughly revised and updated to take account of developments in exproring new ideas of modern presidency. It provides a convenient and informative work of reference for those who studying the presidency and practitioners. Through this book, James P.Pfiffner has created an outstanding reading material and absolutely fascinating though on modern presidency reference.             The Politics of the Presidency1 review Joseph A. Pika, John Anthony Maltese CQ Press, 2008 A good overview of the changing face of the Am. Presidency I have this book as a text for a political science class I'm taking at the Rochester Institute of Technology. Though a bit pricey at $40, I truly find this a solid read. It should be appropriate for all levels of reader, though it seems to be geared towards those with at least basic knowledge of the American political system.             Obama's Challenge: America's Economic Crisis and the Power of a Transformative Presidency9 reviews Robert Kuttner Chelsea Green Publishing, 2008 Another great book from Kuttner This is an interesting subject and Kuttner does a nice job of explaining the huge obstacles that Obama will need to overcome in order to have a successful presidency. I also enjoyed very much seeing him expose Sean Hannity as the petulant man-child that he is on Faux News last night..classic!             Packaging The Presidency: A History and Criticism of Presidential Campaign Advertising4 reviews Kathleen Hall Jamieson Oxford University Press, USA, 1996 Jamieson opens the door of Packaging the presidency is the most complete and accurate book about presidential advertising and communication of the period ending with the 1992 presidential election. Sometimes humorous, sometimes cynical, Kathleen Jamieson takes us in a travel back in time within the intricacies of political communication strategies. This is the best book that I have ever read on this subject. This book ...             The Modern American Presidency2 reviews Lewis L. Gould University Press of Kansas, 2004 Excellent overview of Presidency from McKinley to GW Bush This book is both erudite and accessible, and it's an excellent survey of the modern Presidency, which Gould, a respected University of Texas historian, points out has been transformed in roughly the past hundred years from an intimate, folksy, at times nearly one-man operation into an unwieldy, unworkable, and dangerously out-of-touch apparatus that has far less to do with running the country ...             The Paradoxes of the American Presidency3 reviews Thomas E. Cronin, Michael A. Genovese Oxford University Press, USA, 2003 And Yet Nonetheless True In Chapter 1, the authors observe: "We admire presidential power, yet fear it. We yearn for the heroic, yet are also inherently suspicious of it.We demand dynamic leadership, yet grant only limited powers to the president. We want presidents to be dispassionate analysts and listeners, yet they must also be decisive. We are impressed with presidents who have great self-confidence, yet we dislike ...             The Rhetorical Presidency1 review Jeffrey K. Tulis Princeton University Press, 1988 Excellent -- an absolute must-have. Tulis has written a brilliant account of the changing styles of presidential rhetoric. His essential argument is that the Framers intended the President to use rhetoric only to speak directly to Congress, rarely if ever to the masses, and always to put his ideas in a constitutional framework. But post-Woodrow Wilson, presidents speak directly to the public, even when ostensibly speaking to ...             The American Presidency: Origins and Development, 1776-2002 (American Presidency) (American Presidency (CQ))1 review Sidney M. Milkis, Michael Nelson CQ Press, 2003 Everything you wanted to know about the presidency... ...but were afraid to ask. Comprehensive, readable, well-organized. A must-have for every serious scholar of the presidency, certainly. I think it will also prove very useful to the intended audience as a textbook for courses on the American presidency, especially those looking at it from a historical angle. Well-written and a page turner, which is a rarity in political science.             The American Presidency4 reviews Houghton Mifflin, 2004 Thought-Provoking, Perhaps Controversial Interpretations For non-scholars such as I, Brinkley and Dyer have assembled and edited generally outstanding essays written by eminent academics, each of whom focuses her or his attention on one of the 43 presidents of the United States. They are indeed "concise and thorough accounts," as Brinkley and Dyer suggest in their Preface, but they also attempt to do more than that. "They are deliberately and frankly ...             The Evolving Presidency: Addresses, Cases, Essays, Letters, Reports, Resolutions, Transcripts, and Other ... CQ Press, 2004 The ideal primary documents reader for any history or political science course focusing on the presidency. This fascinating--and very affordable--collection of 50 primary source documents offers a compact yet broad-based look at the development of the executive office. With judicious editing and contextual headnotes by Michael Nelson, students get a look at both the personalities and ideas that have shaped the institution, as well ...             Takeover: The Return of the Imperial Presidency and the Subversion of American Democracy37 reviews Charlie Savage Back Bay Books, 2008 Great Read! Well written, accessible, compelling, and disturbing This book is a great read. Yes the title is sensationalistic. I look past that at the content. It's easy to read through, and explains complex issues well. More than that it's something that anyone who cares about democracy and balance of power should read.             Understanding the Presidency (5th Edition) James P. Pfiffner, Roger H. Davidson Longman, 2008 Updated with new readings on the war in Iraq, the war on terror, the frontloaded nomination process, and President Bush?s place in history, the new edition of this popular reader gives students the analytical tools needed to make sense of the modern presidency and its relationship with other key players in our political system.   The selections in this reader were chosen with two aims in mind: (1) to provide a historical perspective, so ...              search for books 1776-2002, 1776-2007, 1787-2004, 1787-2008, addresses, administration, advertising, american, anti-intellectual, campaign, challenge, criticism, dangerous, democracy, development, documents, executive, intellectual, packaging, paradoxes, political, presidency, presidential, resolutions, rhetorical, subversion, transcripts, transformative, understanding, washington books:    Kindle - Amazon's New Wireless Reading Device This is the future of book reading. 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