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Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
A devastatingly hilarious satire that cuts closer to the truth of than any nonfiction account: The creator and star of Comedy Central’s acclaimed The President Show opens the vault and imagines Donald J. Trump’s presidential archives, exposing documents from his childhood in Queens to his toddlerhood in the Oval Office. The Presidential Archives. Every other president has made a mess of it. Barack Obama is currently spending millions of dollars...
Author
Publisher
Harper Perennial
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
From Thomas Jefferson to William Jefferson Clinton, Scorpion Tongues is a popular history of gossip in American politics. Complete with wickedly delightful anecdotes of major and minor politicians and entertainers over the last 200 years, Gail Collins examines the evolving relationship between politicians and the press and the blurring of the lines between politicians and celebrities. Supported by extensive research and written with an entertaining...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins / Open Road Integrated Media
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Today's Tea Party activists are motivated by the same ideological desires as our nation's Founding Fathers, argues Michael Patrick Leahy in this illuminating work of political history. Today's political class--in both parties and at all levels of government--shows a blatant disregard for both the letter and spirit of the U.S. Constitution. More and more Americans are fed up, and from this sweeping sense of discontent and anger the Tea Party movement...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins / Open Road Integrated Media
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
“Hamilton’s turbulent life, the dramatic birth of a nation, all against the richly evoked gritty background of the 18th century--Randall’s book is propelled with the page-turning intensity of an epic novel.” -- Ronald Blumer, Peabody Award-winning writer A new reissue of this important biography of Alexander Hamilton--arguably one of the most brilliant and complex of our nation’s founders. From his less than auspicious start in 1755 on the...
Author
Publisher
Custom House
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
A brilliant and novel examination of how Abraham Lincoln mastered the art of leadership
"Abraham Lincoln had less schooling than all but a couple of other presidents, and more wisdom than every one of them. In this original, insightful book, Michael Gerhardt explains how this came to be." –H.W. Brands, Wall Street Journal
In 1849, when Abraham Lincoln returned to Springfield, Illinois, after two seemingly uninspiring years in the U.S. House...
Author
Publisher
PublicAffairs
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Nestled in the Golden Triangle of China, Burma, and Nepal, the Wa nation has existed and thrived for over five decades. Like mountain peoples from Chechnya to the Ozarks, the Wa like to do things their own way. A tribal authority called the United Wa State Army (or UWSA) controls their native terrain. The UWSA makes laws, defends the motherland, and builds roads and schools. It even issues driver's licenses. In every sense, it is a government. And...
Author
Publisher
The Kent State University Press
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
The remarkable life of a noteworthy-yet overlooked-Union general turned Reconstruction-era politician
A central figure in Reconstruction-era politics, Adelbert Ames and his contributions during a significant and uncertain time in American history are the focus of Michael J. Megelsh's fascinating study. As Megelsh discusses, Ames's life took many compelling turns. Born on Maine's rocky shore in 1835, he served as a Union general during the American...
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