Category: Used: Politics/Current Events

The inspiring, true coming-of-age story of a ferociously determined young man who, armed only with his intellect and his willpower, fights his way out of despair. In 1993, Cedric Jennings was a bright and ferociously determined honor student at Ballou, a high school in one of Washington D.C.'s most dangerous neighborhoods, where the dropout rate was well into double digits and just 80 students out of more than 1,350 boasted an average of B or better. At Ballou, Cedric had almost no friends. He ate lunch in a classroom most days, plowing through the extra work he asked for, knowing that he was ...
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All Too Human: A Political Education

By: Stephanopoulos, George

Price: $2.00

Publisher: Little, Brown and Company : March 1999

Seller ID: 53577

ISBN-13: 9780316929196

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

George Stephanopoulos's memoir of life on the campaign trail and inside the White House has been widely praised as one of the most insightful political memoirs of our time. It is at once an eyewitness account of unprecedented historical events and a compelling revelation of the American political process.
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American Theocracy: The Peril and Politics of Radical Religion, Oil, and Borrowed Money in the 21st Century

By: Phillips, Kevin

Price: $3.00

Publisher: Viking Adult : March 2006

Seller ID: 416470

ISBN-13: 9780670034864

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

Kevin Phillips, political commentator and analyst, evaluates the current political climate in the US and the inherent dangers posed by such factors as global over-reach, religious fundamentalism, and ballooning debt, in an account that draws on historical examples.
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Arms of Little Value: The Challenge of Insurgency and Global Instability in the Twenty-First Century

By: Lamborn, G. L.

Price: $3.00

Publisher: Casemate : July 2012

Seller ID: 459717

ISBN-13: 9781612001043

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

This book presents a former soldier and CIA officer's insight into the true nature of insurgency and how it will continue to affect the United States in the decades to come. What we've seen in Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, Bahrein, Yemen, and elsewhere is merely the beginning. We are entering an extremely dangerous period in our history. The author has been a student and observer--and sometimes a participant--in various insurgencies since his "initiation" in Vietnam in 1969. This book gives the reader an understanding of the true nature of insurgency and a glimpse at the reasons why we have not alway...
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Bearing Right: How Conservatives Won the Abortion War

By: Saletan, William

Price: $3.00

Publisher: University of California Press : August 2003

Seller ID: 395773

ISBN-13: 9780520086883

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

In his gripping, behind-the-scenes account, journalist William Saletan reveals exactly how, thirty years after Roe v. Wade, "pro-choice" conservatives have won the abortion war. Having successfully turned abortion into a privacy issue, conservatives now prevail on issues ranging from abortion's legality and parental notification to Medicaid, rape, and cloning; consequently, reproductive autonomy is now becoming inaccessible to the young and the poor. This eye-opening expose tells how abortion rights activists--people who desired social change, women's equality, and broader access to health car...
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Civilization: The West and the Rest

By: Ferguson, Niall

Price: $3.00

Publisher: Penguin Press HC, The : November 2011

Seller ID: 405822

ISBN-13: 9781594203053

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

From the bestselling author of The Ascent of Money and The Square and the Tower Western civilization's rise to global dominance is the single most important historical phenomenon of the past five centuries. How did the West overtake its Eastern rivals? And has the zenith of Western power now passed? Acclaimed historian Niall Ferguson argues that beginning in the fifteenth century, the West developed six powerful new concepts, or "killer applications"--competition, science, the rule of law, modern medicine, consumerism, and the work ethic--that the Rest lacked, allowing it to surge past all oth...
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Click on Democracy: The Internet's Power to Change Political Apathy into Civic Action

By: Reeher, Grant, Davis, Steve, Elin, Larry

Price: $2.00

Publisher: Westview Press : September 2002

Seller ID: 49758

ISBN-13: 9780813340050

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Click on Democracy examines the first national election in which the Internet played a major role. The contributors argue that the Internet's most profound political impact on Election 2000 has largely been missed or underestimated. The reason: the difference it made was more social than electoral, more about building political communities than about generating votes and money.Voter turnout has dwindled over the past forty years, and fewer Americans are involved in civic activities. The real story of the Internet is its emergence as a community builder - under the radar of most political obser...
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Crashing the Party: Taking on the Corporate Government in an Age of Surrender

By: Nader, Ralph

Price: $3.00

Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin : October 2002

Seller ID: 394989

ISBN-13: 9780312302580

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

In the year 2000, Ralph Nader ran for the presidency of the United States on a Green Party ticket. This is his account of that campaign and what it takes to challenge the established two-party system.
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Emily Gets Her Gun: But Obama Wants to Take Yours

By: Miller, Emily

Price: $3.00

Publisher: Regnery Publishing : September 2013

Seller ID: 435896

ISBN-13: 9781621571926

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

In the wake of tragic shootings in Newtown and Aurora, the anti-gun lobby has launched a campaign of lies, distortion, misrepresentation, and emotional manipulation that is breathtaking in its vitriol and its denial of basic facts. Their goal is to take away our Second Amendment rights and then disarm law-abiding Americans. Emily Miller tells her personal story of how being a single, female victim of a home invasion drove her to try to obtain a legally registered gun in Washington, D.C. The narrative--sometimes shocking, other times hilarious in its absurdity--gives the reader a real life unde...
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Fair Trade for All: How Trade Can Promote Development (Initiative for Policy Dialogue Series C)

By: Stiglitz, Joseph E., Charlton, Andrew

Price: $2.00

Publisher: Oxford University Press : January 2006

Seller ID: 127162

ISBN-13: 9780199290901

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

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Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House

By: Wolff, Michael

Price: $3.00

Publisher: Henry Holt and Co. : January 2018

Seller ID: 321270

ISBN-13: 9781250158062

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

With extraordinary access to the Trump White House, Michael Wolff tells the inside story of the most controversial presidency of our timeThe first nine months of Donald Trump's term were stormy, outrageous--and absolutely mesmerizing. Now, thanks to his deep access to the West Wing, bestselling author Michael Wolff tells the riveting story of how Trump launched a tenure as volatile and fiery as the man himself.In this explosive book, Wolff provides a wealth of new details about the chaos in the Oval Office. Among the revelations: -- What President Trump's staff really thinks of him -- What in...
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George Soros On Globalization

By: Soros, George

Price: $3.00

Publisher: PublicAffairs : March 2002

Seller ID: 463634

ISBN-13: 9781586481254

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

Over the past decade, "globalization" has become a buzzword for everything that is happening in the world economy or even in international relations generally. But as even a cursory glance at recent headlines reveals, not everyone is happy with globalization. Violent protests are now a regular feature of international summit meetings, and many young people have expressed their strong opposition to policies that they see as enriching the rich at the expense of workers, the environment, and traditional culture. As the world economy has transformed in the 1990s and early 2000s, no individual has...
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Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide

By: Kristof, Nicholas D.,WuDunn, Sheryl

Price: $3.00

Publisher: Knopf : September 2009

Seller ID: 391439

ISBN-13: 9780307267146

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

From two of our most fiercely moral voices, a passionate call to arms against our era's most pervasive human rights violation: the oppression of women and girls in the developing world. With Pulitzer Prize winners Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn as our guides, we undertake an odyssey through Africa and Asia to meet the extraordinary women struggling there, among them a Cambodian teenager sold into sex slavery and an Ethiopian woman who suffered devastating injuries in childbirth. Drawing on the breadth of their combined reporting experience, Kristof and WuDunn depict our world with anger...
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High Noon: 20 Global Problems, 20 Years To Solve Them

By: Rischard, Jean-francois

Price: $2.00

Publisher: Basic Books : May 2003

Seller ID: 72034

ISBN-13: 9780465070107

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

In this ambitious, challenging, yet superbly readable book, Jean-Francois Rischard first tells us what constitutes a global problem and then offers a brief overview of the twenty most important. He finds they all have two things in common: They're getting worse, not better, and the standard strategies for dealing with them, such as international treaties, are woefully inadequate to the task. The chief problem is that in our high-population, fast-moving, globalized and interconnected world, we don't have an effective way of addressing the problems that such a world creates. Our difficulties bel...
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Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution--and How It Can Renew America

By: Friedman, Thomas L.

Price: $3.00

Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux : September 2008

Seller ID: 388037

ISBN-13: 9780374166854

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

Thomas L. Friedman's phenomenal number-one bestseller The World Is Flat has helped millions of readers to see the world in a new way. In his brilliant, essential new book, Friedman takes a fresh and provocative look at two of the biggest challenges we face today: America's surprising loss of focus and national purpose since 9/11; and the global environmental crisis, which is affecting everything from food to fuel to forests. In this groundbreaking account of where we stand now, he shows us how the solutions to these two big problems are linked--how we can restore the world and revive America a...
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Hundred And One Days : A Baghdad Journal

By: SEIERSTAD, ASNE

Price: $3.00

Publisher: Perseus Books Group : March 2006

Seller ID: 172627

ISBN-13: 9780465076017

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

For one hundred and one days Asne Seierstad worked as a reporter in Baghdad. Always in search of a s
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Longitudes and Attitudes : The World in the Age of Terrorism

By: FRIEDMAN, THOMAS L.

Price: $2.00

Publisher: Random House Inc : August 2003

Seller ID: 125121

ISBN-13: 9781400031252

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times columnist and bestselling author of From Beirut to Jerusalem and The Lexus and the Olive Tree comes this smart, penetrating, brilliantly informed book that is indispensable for understanding today's radically new world and America's complex place in it. Thomas L. Freidman received his third Pulitzer Prize in 2002 "for his clarity of vision, based on extensive reporting, in commenting on the worldwide impact of the terrorist threat." In Longitudes and Attitudes he gives us all of the columns he has published about the most momentous news story of o...
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Making Peace

By: Mitchell, George

Price: $2.00

Publisher: Knopf : March 1999

Seller ID: 49373

ISBN-13: 9780375406065

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Molly Ivins Can't Say That, Can She?

By: Ivins, Molly

Price: $2.00

Publisher: Vintage : October 1992

Seller ID: 55195

ISBN-13: 9780679741831

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Whether she's writing about redneck politics in her native Texas or the discreet charms of Bushwazee, Molly Ivins in never less than devastatingly honest--and hilarious. Our toughest, funniest, and savviest columnist delivers the goods on: -Texas politics: Well, our attorney general is under indictment. He ran as 'the people's lawyer'; now we call him 'the people's felon.' -The flag burning debate: Bush's last birthday cake was in the form of the American flag, and he ate it--stars, stripes, and all. Think about where that flag wound up--I call that desecration. -Beign a woman in Texas: There ...
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Nuclear Madness: What You Can Do (Norton History of Modern Europe)

By: Caldicott, Helen

Price: $2.00

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company : May 1994

Seller ID: 102834

ISBN-13: 9780393310115

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

In this completely revised, updated, and expanded edition, Dr. Caldicott defines for the 1990s the dangers of this madness--including the insidious influence of the nuclear power industry and the American government's complicity in medical "experiments" using nuclear material--and calls on us to accept the moral challenge to fight against it, both for our own sake and for that of future generations.

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Open Fire: The Open Magazine Pamphlet Series Anthology, No 1

By: Ruggiero, Greg

Price: $3.00

Publisher: New Press, The : May 1993

Seller ID: 445108

ISBN-13: 9781565840560

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

Open Fire brings together some of the sharpest radical journalism in America. First published as a series of pamphlets, this anthology includes essays by leading commentators on the Gulf War, the civil unrest in Los Angeles, women's rights over their bodies, global warming and other issues.
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Peace Kills: America's Fun New Imperialism

By: O'Rourke, P. J.

Price: $2.00

Publisher: Atlantic Monthly Press : April 2004

Seller ID: 363886

ISBN-13: 9780871139191

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

In his classic best-sellers, O'Rourke has reported from the front lines of world history, braving the bad traffic, weak drinks, and less than stellar golfing of countless hot spots of war, poverty, and repression. Now with his latest collection, Peace Kills, P.J. casts his ever-shrewd and mordant eye on America's latest adventures in warfare. Imperialism has never been more fun. To unravel the mysteries of war, O'Rourke first visits Kosovo, where "NATO tried to start World War III without hurting anyone." Talking to KLA veterans, Albanian refugees, and peacekeepers doing their best impression ...
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People waging peace: Stories of Americans striving for peace and justice in the world today

By: McGuinness, Elizabeth

Price: $3.00

Publisher: Alberti Press : January 1988

Seller ID: 49602

ISBN-13: 9780944758106

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

Political Ideologies and the Democratic Ideal (7th Edition)

By: Ball, Terence,Dagger, Richard

Price: $3.00

Publisher: Longman : March 2008

Seller ID: 405545

ISBN-13: 9780205607372

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

This text surveys the major ideologies which have shaped the political landscape, covering traditional ideologies including liberalism, conservatism, and socialism, and the newly emerging ideologies, like environmentalism.
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Profiles in Courage For Our Time

By: Kennedy, Caroline

Price: $3.00

Publisher: Hyperion : May 2002

Seller ID: 408668

ISBN-13: 9780786867936

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

In the spirit of John F. Kennedy's Pulitzer Prize-winning Profiles in Courage, 13 essays honoring modern-day political heroes, penned by a collection of stellar authors Nearly half a century after then-Senator John F. Kennedy was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Profiles in Courage, his masterful portrait of American heroes, the words "politician" and "courage" are rarely uttered in the same breath. But, as this celebration of modern political bravery amply demonstrates, there are countless examples of heroism among today's elected officials. Profiles in Courage for Our Time pays tribute to 13 s...
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Reinventing Congress for the 21st century: Toward a politics of accountability, participation and consensus

By: Erdman, Sol

Price: $9.95

Publisher: Frontier Press : January 1996

Seller ID: 42377

ISBN-13: 9780964331716

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Acceptable

Safety First: The Making of New Labour

By: Anderson, Paul,Mann, Nyta

Price: $3.00

Publisher: Granta Books : March 1999

Seller ID: 405539

ISBN-13: 9781862070707

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

This is a collective portrait of the people who have formed a new regime for Britain in the Spring of 1997. The Labour Party under Tony Blair is electable and professional. It is single-minded in the pursuit of power, which has eluded the British centre-left for a generation. The party has purged itself of anything that makes Middle-England uneasy. It avoids even the rhetoric of the historic Labour Party, and is unsentimental about the sacred cows of Labour tradition: nationalization, support for trade unions and a belief in redistribution. New Labour is a smiling, teflon party, and its hour h...
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Second Treatise of Government

By: Locke, John

Price: $3.00

Publisher: Hackett Publishing Company : June 1980

Seller ID: 405816

ISBN-13: 9780915144860

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

The Second Treatise is one of the most important political treatises ever written and one of the most far-reaching in its influence.

In his provocative 15-page introduction to this edition, the late eminent political theorist C. B. Macpherson examines Locke's arguments for limited, conditional government, private property, and right of revolution and suggests reasons for the appeal of these arguments in Locke's time and since.

The 9/11 Commission Report: Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States (Authorized Edition)

By: Attacks, National Commission on Terrorist

Price: $3.00

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company : July 2004

Seller ID: 405392

ISBN-13: 9780393326710

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

This volume is the authorized edition of the Commission's final report.
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The 9/11 Commission Report: Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States (Authorized Edition)

By: Attacks, National Commission on Terrorist

Price: $3.00

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company : July 2004

Seller ID: 462088

ISBN-13: 9780393326710

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

This volume is the authorized edition of the Commission's final report.
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The Bill : How Legislation Really Becomes Law: A Case Study of the National Service Bill

By: Waldman, Stephen

Price: $2.00

Publisher: Penguin Books : December 1995

Seller ID: 102841

ISBN-13: 9780140233049

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

"Skillfully guides us, with an engrossing and provocative tale, through the interplay of Congress and the White House, policy and politics. Must reading for students of American government." --Gary Orren, Harvard University

"Full of genuinely juicy details, it is certain to replace Eric Redman's studies in the future." --Charles Peters, editor in chief, The Washington Monthy.
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The Brethren: Inside the Supreme Court

By: Woodward, Bob, Armstrong, Scott

Price: $3.00

Publisher: Simon & Schuster : December 1979

Seller ID: 319491

ISBN-13: 9780671241100

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

The Duel: Pakistan on the Flight Path of American Power

By: Ali, Tariq

Price: $3.00

Publisher: Scribner : September 2008

Seller ID: 317482

ISBN-13: 9781416561019

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

Pakistan is the sixth most populous country in the world. It is the only Islamic state to have nuclear weapons. Its border with Afghanistan extends over one thousand miles and is the likely hideout of Osama bin Laden. It has been under military dictatorship for thirty-three of its fiftyyear existence. Yet it is the linchpin in the United States' war on terror, receiving over $10 billion of American aid since 2001 and purchasing more than $5 billion of U.S. weaponry in 2006 alone.These days, relations between the two countries are never less than tense. Pakistani president Pervez Musharraf repo...
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The Good Soldiers

By: Finkel, David

Price: $3.00

Publisher: Sarah Crichton Books : September 2009

Seller ID: 395528

ISBN-13: 9780374165734

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

It was the last-chance moment of the war. In January 2007, President George W. Bush announced a new strategy for Iraq. He called it the surge. "Many listening tonight will ask why this effort will succeed when previous operations to secure Baghdad did not. Well, here are the differences," he told a skeptical nation. Among those listening were the young, optimistic army infantry soldiers of the 2-16, the battalion nicknamed the Rangers. About to head to a vicious area of Baghdad, they decided the difference would be them. Fifteen months later, the soldiers returned home forever changed. Pulitze...
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The Hydrogen Economy: The Creation of the Worldwide Energy Web and the Redistribution of Power on Earth

By: Rifkin, Jeremy

Price: $2.00

Publisher: TarcherPerigee : August 2003

Seller ID: 269039

ISBN-13: 9781585422548

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

The road to global security," writes Jeremy Rifkin, "lies in lessening our dependence on Middle East oil and making sure that all people on Earth have access to the energy they need to sustain life. Weaning the world off oil and turning it toward hydrogen is a promissory note for a safer world." Rifkin's international bestseller The Hydrogen Economy presents the clearest, most comprehensive case for moving ourselves away from the destructive and waning years of the oil era toward a new kind of energy regime. Hydrogen-one of the most abundant substances in the universe-holds the key, Rifkin arg...
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The Last Innocent White Man in America: And Other Writings

By: Leonard, John

Price: $3.00

Publisher: The New Press : April 1993

Seller ID: 194691

ISBN-13: 9781565840720

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

Far more than simple political commentary, The Last Innocent White Man in America is a passionate marriage of politics and literature that transcends the daily headlines to get at how we imagine ourselves in history. John Leonard is an unrepentant liberal, dissident, scourge, and media critic par excellence. Whether he's writing about bankers or AIDS, Congress or television, Salman Rushdie or Ed Koch, Leonard will make you stop, think, and laugh.

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The New American Poverty

By: Harrington, Michael

Price: $3.00

Publisher: Penguin Books : August 1985

Seller ID: 408253

ISBN-13: 9780140081121

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

The Politics Of Meaning: Restoring Hope And Possibility In An Age Of Cynicism

By: Lerner, Michael

Price: $3.00

Publisher: Basic Books : April 1996

Seller ID: 314017

ISBN-13: 9780201479669

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Drawing both on religious traditions and the insights of psychotherapy, Michael Lerner here proposes and provides a detailed plan for a "politics of meaning" that would reshape our economic and political lives in the twenty-first century.Lerner, the editor of "Tikkun" magazine and a practicing psychotherapist, shows how liberals and progressives can reconstitute themselves as the pro-family and pro-values force in American society. They must, he argues, he argues, accept as legitimate Americans; hunger for meaning in their lives, which until now has led many to embrace the political Right.The ...
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The Presidential Branch: From Washington to Clinton (American Politics Series)

By: Hart, John C.

Price: $3.00

Publisher: Chatham House Pub : October 1994

Seller ID: 351666

ISBN-13: 9781566430104

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

Hart's study of presidential staffing contends that the major institutional trends and developments in the history of the executive office have not only remained unchanged since the mid-1980s but have been reinforced by the controversies of the Bush and Clinton presidencies. The idea of comity survived a 12-year period of divided government; it was tested during those years, but not successfully challenged, and the presidential branch is still almost immune from effective congressional scrutiny. The efforts of reformers to persuade presidents to change the way the presidential staff functions ...
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