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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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

President Ronald Reagan's Initial Actions Project

by White House Staff & Arthur B. Laffer

When Ronald Reagan took office, he was facing an economic downturn similar to the one our country is currently experiencing. Key members of Reagan’s staff prepared an Initial Actions Project, which takes every...

Bomb Power: The Modern Presidency and the National Security State

by Garry Wills

A groundbreaking examination of how the atomic bomb profoundly altered the nature of American democracy.

In Bomb Power, bestselling author Garry Wills presents a blistering critique of excessive executive...

The Book on Bush: How George W. (Mis)leads America

by Eric Alterman & Mark Green

When George W. Bush became president in January 2001, he took office with a comfortably familiar surname, bipartisan rhetoric, and the promise of calming a public shaken by the convulsions of impeachment and...

Rise of the Vulcans: The History of Bush's War Cabinet

by James Mann

When George W. Bush campaigned for the White House, he was such a novice in foreign policy that he couldn't name the president of Pakistan and momentarily suggested he thought the Taliban was a rock-and-roll...

Taking Heat

by Ari Fleischer

The early years of the twenty-first century were a tumultuous time in America. The country faced a hotly contested presidential election, the largest terrorist attack in the nation's history, and the early stages...