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Obama's Wars

by Bob Woodward

In Obama’s Wars, Bob Woodward provides the most intimate and sweeping portrait yet of the young president as commander in chief. Drawing on internal memos, classified documents, meeting notes and hundreds...

The Endgame: The Inside Story of the Struggle for Iraq, from George W. Bush to Barack Obama

by Michael R. Gordon & Bernard E. Trainor

A Wall Street Journal Best Nonfiction Book of 2012

In this follow-up to their national bestseller Cobra II, Michael Gordon and General Bernard E. Trainor deftly piece together the story of the most widely...

Blacklash: How Obama and the Left Are Driving Americans to the Government Plantation

by Deneen Borelli

One of the most visible and outspoken black conservatives in the country stands up against the destructive progressive tyrants whose politics threaten to send America into a nosedive.

This country is at a crossroads....

The Right Fights Back: Playbook 2012 (POLITICO Inside Election 2012)

by Evan Thomas, Politico & Mike Allen

Two of America’s most perceptive political reporters join forces for an unprecedented behind-the-scenes look at the race for the White House in POLITICO’s Playbook 2012, a series of four instant digital...

Of Thee I Zing: America's Cultural Decline from Muffin Tops to Body Shots

by Laura Ingraham & Raymond Arroyo

While Laura Ingraham was walking through a Northern Virginia shopping mall one Saturday afternoon, it all became clear to her. Everywhere she turned, she saw signs of the impending disaster: zombie teens texting...

A Charge Kept: The Record of the Bush Presidency 2001 - 2009

by George W Bush

We have served America through one of the most consequential periods of our history... President George W. Bush, 2006 State of the Union

Centrist Rhetoric: The Production of Political Transcendence in the Clinton Presidency

by De Velasco, Antonio

Focused on the centrist rhetoric of President Bill Clinton, Centrist Rhetoric explores questions about the basic nature and function of pleas to transcend partisan division. Using close textual analysis in the...

Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States, Barack Obama, 2009, Book 1

by Office of the Federal Register

Each Public Papers volume contains the papers and speeches of the President of the United States issued by the Office of the Press Secretary during the specified time period. The material is presented in chronological...

Presimetrics: What the Facts Tell Us About How the Presidents Measure Up On the Issues We Care About

by Mike Kimel & Nigel Holmes

The authors cut through party bias to present the quantifiable facts about how modern presidents have performed on critical national issues

Politicians and the media spend a lot of time telling Americans how...

Acting Alone

by Bradley F. Podliska

Acting Alone: A Scientific Study of American Hegemony and Unilateral Use-of-Force Decision Making is a straight-forward analysis of unilateral U.S. military actions, which are dependent upon the power disparity...

Appendix, Budget of the United States Government, Fiscal Year 2012

by Office of Management and Budget

Contains detailed information on the various appropriations and funds that constitute the budget and is designed primarily for the use of the U.S. Appropriations Committee/ The Appendix contains detailed financial...

Budget of the United States Government, Fiscal Year 2012

by Office of Management and Budget

Contains the Budget Message of the President, information on the President's budget and management priorities, and budget overviews organized by government agency

The Obama Presidency in the Constitutional Order: A First Look

by Carol McNamara

The Obama administration is shaping up to be one of the most consequential in recent American history. In this book, a diverse group of presidential scholars step back from the partisan debate to consider the...

Presidential Lessons in Leadership: What Executives (and Everybody Else) Can Learn from Six Great American Presidents

by Ron Felber

This book crystallizes the methods of leadership from America's greatest presidents during moments of personal challenge and turns them into concrete lessons that business leaders, and anyone interested in becoming...

Deconstructing Obama: The Life, Loves, and Letters of America's First Postmodern President

by Jack Cashill

Did Obama write his own books and is the story they tell true?

“I've written two books,” Barack Obama told a crowd of teachers in July of 2008. “I actually wrote them myself.” The teachers exploded in...

The Obama Diaries

by Laura Ingraham

The Diary of President Barack Obama

The White House

May 19, 2010

I was going to write about tonight’s state dinner for Mexico and the amnesty plan, but we’ve got a national crisis here! I think somebody’s...

Radical-in-Chief: Barack Obama and the Untold Story of American Socialism

by Stanley Kurtz

President Barack Obama surprised many voters during a pre-election interview when he approvingly noted that Ronald Reagan had “changed the trajectory of America” in a way that other presidents had not. In...

Young Guns: A New Generation of Conservative Leaders

by Eric Cantor, Paul Ryan & Kevin McCarthy

America urgently needs a new direction. But who will provide it?

The time has come to move the country forward with a clear agenda based on common sense for the common good.

THERE IS A BETTER WAY.

Make no...

The Post-American Presidency: The Obama Administration's War on America

by Robert Spencer, Pamela Geller & John Bolton

Popular conservative blogger Pamela Geller and New York Times bestselling author Robert Spencer sound a wake-up call for Americans to stop the Obama administration from limiting our hard-won freedoms, silencing...

Listen Up, Mr. President: Everything You Always Wanted Your President to Know and Do

by Helen Thomas & Craig Crawford

Helen Thomas has covered the administrations of ten presidents in a career spanning nearly sixty years. She is known for her famous press conference closing line, "Thank you, Mr. President," but here she trades...