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Author
Publisher
Putnam
Pub. Date
c1996
Language
English
Description
When a Japanese airliner plows into the Capitol building killing the President and most of the members of his Cabinet and Congress, Jack Ryan reluctantly assumes the role of Commander in Chief and must simultaneously calm the nation, conduct an investigation, reassemble the government, and face off with the country's enemies.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Program highlights: Hierarchies are inevitable, so learn the rules of the game. Qualities that create power and why intelligence is not one of them. How we limit ourselves when it comes to acquiring power. Getting a job, having control over your work, and holding on to a job all require more than simply excelling at what you do. They require an understanding of power. According to Professor Pfeffer, individual power comes from political skill, which...
4) Suicide Pact: The Radical Expansion of Presidential Powers and the Lethal Threat to American Liberty
Author
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
New York Times bestselling author Judge Andrew P. Napolitano exposes the alarming history of presidential power grabs performed in the name of national security. Judge, scholar, bestselling author, and Fox News Senior Judicial Analyst Andrew P. Napolitano is back with a shocking chronicle of America's descent from a free society to a frightening surveillance state. In Suicide Pact , Napolitano details a long, sordid history of governmental -- and...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Imagine you have just been elected president. You are now commander-in-chief, chief executive, chief diplomat, chief legislator, chief of party, chief voice of the people, first responder, chief priest, and world leader. You're expected to fulfill your campaign promises, but you're also expected to solve the urgent crises of the day. What's on your to-do list? Where would you even start? The American presidency is in trouble. It has become overburdened,...
Author
Publisher
Mariner Books
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
A brilliant examination of the growth of presidential power from George Washington to George W. Bush, by a Pulitzer Prize winning historian (Newsweek). From two-time Pulitzer Prize winning historian Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., comes one of the most important and influential investigations of the American presidency. The Imperial Presidency traces the growth of presidential power over two centuries, from George Washington to George W. Bush, examining...
Author
Publisher
University of Texas Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"Who is James K. Polk?" was a rallying cry of the Whigs during the campaign of 1844. Polk answered that question adequately by winning the election against his Whig opponent, Henry Clay. Today the question might be recast -- respectfully, not derisively -- "Who was James K. Polk?" Few persons could give more than a perfunctory answer, even though when he left office the United States was half again larger than it was when he became president. Polk,...
Author
Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"From a preeminent presidential historian comes a groundbreaking and often surprising saga of America's wartime chief executives. Ten years in the research and writing, Presidents of Waris a fresh, magisterial, intimate look at a procession of American leaders as they took the nation into conflict and mobilized their country for victory. It brings us into the room as they make the most difficult decisions that face any President, at times sending...
Author
Publisher
Abrams / Vearsa Limited
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
How do you stop a rogue president? How do you protect our country from a man who lies, who obstructs justice, and who seeks to cheat with foreign powers to get reelected? Our constitution offers one remedy: impeachment. Thanks to the courageous actions of public servants who came forward to report his abuses of power, on December 18, 2019, President Donald J. Trump became just the third president in US history to be impeached by the House of Representatives.
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