Back Door to the White House

Back Door to the White House
Title Back Door to the White House PDF eBook
Author Don Helm
Publisher CreateSpace
Pages 250
Release 2013-10-14
Genre Fiction
ISBN 9781492987024

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A spring day dawns in Washington, D.C. and it is business as usual for the government as it wrestles with taxes, the economy and unrest around the world. All this is about to change in a matter of hours as murder, blackmail, and deception take center stage. Sam Davoran the FBI director carried over from the previous administration finds himself plunged into the center of a baffling investigation that gets more bizarre by the minute. Will he be able to find the answers before it is to late and he has a dead President on his hands added to the body count that is growing daily? The clock is ticking and with time running out Sam becomes the pursued instead of the pursuer, accused of a murder he did not commit. Will the real killer be caught and the plot exposed before a new and corrupt administration moves into the White House? Read this riveting political thriller and enjoy the wild roller coaster ride to the exciting conclusion.

The Path to Power

The Path to Power
Title The Path to Power PDF eBook
Author Robert A. Caro
Publisher Vintage
Pages 961
Release 1990-02-17
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN 0679729453

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The Years of Lyndon Johnson is the political biography of our time. No president—no era of American politics—has been so intensively and sharply examined at a time when so many prime witnesses to hitherto untold or misinterpreted facets of a life, a career, and a period of history could still be persuaded to speak. The Path to Power, Book One, reveals in extraordinary detail the genesis of the almost superhuman drive, energy, and urge to power that set LBJ apart. Chronicling the startling early emergence of Johnson’s political genius, it follows him from his Texas boyhood through the years of the Depression in the Texas hill Country to the triumph of his congressional debut in New Deal Washington, to his heartbreaking defeat in his first race for the Senate, and his attainment, nonetheless, of the national power for which he hungered. We see in him, from earliest childhood, a fierce, unquenchable necessity to be first, to win, to dominate—coupled with a limitless capacity for hard, unceasing labor in the service of his own ambition. Caro shows us the big, gangling, awkward young Lyndon—raised in one of the country’s most desperately poor and isolated areas, his education mediocre at best, his pride stung by his father’s slide into failure and financial ruin—lunging for success, moving inexorably toward that ultimate “impossible” goal that he sets for himself years before any friend or enemy suspects what it may be. We watch him, while still at college, instinctively (and ruthlessly) creating the beginnings of the political machine that was to serve him for three decades. We see him employing his extraordinary ability to mesmerize and manipulate powerful older men, to mesmerize (and sometimes almost enslave) useful subordinates. We see him carrying out, before his thirtieth year, his first great political inspiration: tapping-and becoming the political conduit for-the money and influence of the new oil men and contractors who were to grow with him to immense power. We follow, close up, the radical fluctuations of his relationships with the formidable “Mr. Sam” Raybum (who loved him like a son and whom he betrayed) and with FDR himself. And we follow the dramas of his emotional life-the intensities and complications of his relationships with his family, his contemporaries, his girls; his wooing and winning of the shy Lady Bird; his secret love affair, over many years, with the mistress of one of his most ardent and generous supporters . . . Johnson driving his people to the point of exhausted tears, equally merciless with himself . . . Johnson bullying, cajoling, lying, yet inspiring an amazing loyalty . . . Johnson maneuvering to dethrone the unassailable old Jack Garner (then Vice President of the United States) as the New Deal’s “connection” in Texas, and seize the power himself . . . Johnson raging . . . Johnson hugging . . . Johnson bringing light and, indeed, life to the worn Hill Country farmers and their old-at-thirty wives via the district’s first electric lines. We see him at once unscrupulous, admirable, treacherous, devoted. And we see the country that bred him: the harshness and “nauseating loneliness” of the rural life; the tragic panorama of the Depression; the sudden glow of hope at the dawn of the Age of Roosevelt. And always, in the foreground, on the move, LBJ. Here is Lyndon Johnson—his Texas, his Washington, his America—in a book that brings us as close as we have ever been to a true perception of political genius and the American political process.

Outhouse to Whitehouse

Outhouse to Whitehouse
Title Outhouse to Whitehouse PDF eBook
Author Jimmy Mosley
Publisher Dorrance Publishing
Pages 52
Release 2010-08-12
Genre
ISBN 1434919951

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Presidential Sex

Presidential Sex
Title Presidential Sex PDF eBook
Author Wesley O. Hagood
Publisher Wesley Hagood
Pages 340
Release 1998
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN 9780806520070

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With profiles on Bill Clinton, Thomas Jefferson, FDR, JFK, Lyndon Johnson, and Eisenhower, this book describes the impact that freewheeling sexual behavior has had upon first families, election campaigns, political careers, and the nation itself.

With Kennedy

With Kennedy
Title With Kennedy PDF eBook
Author Pierre Salinger
Publisher Univ of California Press
Pages 436
Release 1966
Genre Presidents
ISBN

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Press secretary and close friend to J F K from the early days through the presidencial years. Cuban missile crisis.

Congressional Record

Congressional Record
Title Congressional Record PDF eBook
Author United States. Congress
Publisher
Pages 1418
Release 1968
Genre Law
ISBN

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My Own Words

My Own Words
Title My Own Words PDF eBook
Author Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Publisher Simon and Schuster
Pages 400
Release 2016-10-04
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN 1501145266

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The New York Times bestselling book from Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg—“a comprehensive look inside her brilliantly analytical, entertainingly wry mind, revealing the fascinating life of one of our generation's most influential voices in both law and public opinion” (Harper’s Bazaar). My Own Words “showcases Ruth Ginsburg’s astonishing intellectual range” (The New Republic). In this collection Justice Ginsburg discusses gender equality, the workings of the Supreme Court, being Jewish, law and lawyers in opera, and the value of looking beyond US shores when interpreting the US Constitution. Throughout her life Justice Ginsburg has been (and continues to be) a prolific writer and public speaker. This book’s sampling is selected by Justice Ginsburg and her authorized biographers Mary Hartnett and Wendy W. Williams, who introduce each chapter and provide biographical context and quotes gleaned from hundreds of interviews they have conducted. Witty, engaging, serious, and playful, My Own Words is a fascinating glimpse into the life of one of America’s most influential women and “a tonic to the current national discourse” (The Washington Post).