Looking Over the President's Shoulder
Title | Looking Over the President's Shoulder PDF eBook |
Author | James Still |
Publisher | Dramatic Publishing |
Pages | 68 |
Release | 2004 |
Genre | Butlers |
ISBN | 9781583422298 |
Playbook
Fields, Alonzo
Title | Fields, Alonzo PDF eBook |
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Release | 2001 |
Genre | Butlers |
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A program from the Indiana Repertory Theatre featuring John Henry Redwood in Looking Over the President's Shoulder. The play is about Alonzo Fields who served a butler in the White House for 21 years (1931 to 1953).
American Presidents - A Curious Look at a Unique Cohort
Title | American Presidents - A Curious Look at a Unique Cohort PDF eBook |
Author | V.S. Dharmakumar |
Publisher | Notion Press |
Pages | 846 |
Release | 2019-09-05 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 1645875571 |
Believe it or not, an American president was arrested for running over a woman with his horse. He was not the only one to be arrested (two more were). George Washington preferred fox hunting with his dogs than going to church. Young Abraham Lincoln fell into a deep ditch and was saved by his dog. And after he was assassinated, his dog `Fido’ also was assassinated. Who was the President who worked as a bartender? And the one who once officially served as an executioner? The President of the United States is considered one of the world's most powerful people, leading the world’s only current superpower. His role includes being the commander-in-chief of the world's most expensive military with the largest nuclear arsenal with the nuclear button on his desk. This book is the result of over a decade of research and writing. It is a comprehensive compendium - a single-volume book, about the 44 men the entire world looked upon as the most powerful men in the world. 44 men who formed the 45 presidencies of the United States of America through 58 quadrennial presidential elections in the 230 years from 1789. This book covers the presidency of the successful liquor distributor and owner of a distillery George Washington, to the presidency of Donald Trump, the oldest, wealthiest man without any prior military or government service experience to ever assume the presidency.
Presidential Power and the Modern Presidents
Title | Presidential Power and the Modern Presidents PDF eBook |
Author | Richard E. Neustadt |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Pages | 404 |
Release | 1991-03 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0029227968 |
This is a revised edition of Presidential power, 1980, which was originally published by Wiley in 1960. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Governing at Home
Title | Governing at Home PDF eBook |
Author | Michael Nelson |
Publisher | University Press of Kansas |
Pages | 336 |
Release | 2011-09-01 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 0700618112 |
Domestic policy issues are neglected by the president only at considerable risk, since policies in health care, education, welfare, the environment, and civil rights deeply affect the lives of ordinary Americans. This groundbreaking book on White House domestic policymaking is the first to draw upon both the experiences of former presidential advisers and the expertise of leading presidency scholars to explain how policies reflect campaign promises, emerge and evolve, and are sold to the American people. Covering six administrations from Richard Nixon through George W. Bush-with ample references to Barack Obama-it interweaves those insider and outsider perspectives to convey an eye-opening understanding of the policymaking process and the factors that influence it. The contributors here offer an unusual balance of practical wisdom and social science knowledge. Their insights address a number of key questions throughout the book: What role does the presidential campaign have in shaping the subsequent activity of the White House? How are the specifics of domestic policy, and priorities, established once a president is elected? Who, and what, is routinely involved in trying to sell domestic policy preferences to the American people? And what lessons can be learned from past successes and failures to enhance the ability of future presidents to succeed? "If there is a single overarching lesson to be drawn from this volume," observes contributor Bruce Miroff, "it might be the following: domestic policymaking is hard." These policy advisers know firsthand just how hard it is, and the lack of partisanship in their comments is striking and reassuring. Their accounts of lessons learned from the Oval Office will be especially valuable for years to come for scholars and students who wish to be acquainted with the real job of governing at home.
The Oxford Handbook of the American Presidency
Title | The Oxford Handbook of the American Presidency PDF eBook |
Author | George C. Edwards |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 892 |
Release | 2011-08-04 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 019960441X |
With engaging, new contributions from major figures in the field, 'The Oxford Handbook of the American Presidency' provides the key point of reference for anyone working in American politics today.
Rubbing Shoulders With Two Presidents
Title | Rubbing Shoulders With Two Presidents PDF eBook |
Author | Tom Graciano |
Publisher | Trafford Publishing |
Pages | 201 |
Release | 2013-06-09 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 1466991577 |
The book is a memoir relating the author’s personal experiences as a free-lance journalist working in Jakarta, Indonesia, from 1965 to 1972. The early part of the book describes how he met President Soekarno and became quite close to him during the last year of his presidency. Soekarno made him sit on his chair and his girl friend on his wife’s chair during a performance one night at the president’s summer palace. He told the author, “You play president tonight.” The author also met President Suharto. The president and Mrs. Suharto invited him and a colleague to have lunch with the First Family on Monkey Island, one of the Thousand Islands Group in the Jakarta Bay. Suharto himself drove the car, with his wife next to him, in which the author and his colleague were seated on the passenger seat, on the trip from the president’s residence to the Yacht Club. Then the president was at the helm of the yacht steering her to Monkey Island. These were Indonesia’s first and second heads-of-state, more often than not portrayed by the foreign media as tyrannical and corrupt. But the author got to know the warm, friendly sides of the two leaders which he narrates in the book.