Political Science
The Right Moment: Ronald Reagan's First Victory and the Turning Point in American Politics
Ronald Reagan's first great victory, in the 1966 California governor's race, seemed to come from nowhere and has long since confounded his critics. Just two years earlier, when Barry Goldwater lost to Lyndon Johnson by a landslide, the conservative movement was pronounced dead.
Abuse of Power: The New Nixon Tapes
The tapes of Richard Nixon's conversations with political intimates compel our attention, capturing different facets and moods. He was alternately prosaic and articulate, self-centered and empathetic, sad yet often comical.
Eyewitness to Power: The Essence of Leadership Nixon to Clinton
From Nixon to Clinton, Watergate to Whitewater, few Americans have observed the ups and downs of presidential leadership more closely over the past thirty years than David Gergen.
The Breach: Inside the Impeachment and Trial of William Jefferson Clinton
The journalist who co-wrote the original article breaking the Monica Lewinsky scandal for the Washington Post reveals the complete story behind the headlines: a riveting, in-depth account of an event unique in American history - the first impeachment of an elected president.
The Clinton Enigma: A Four and a Half Minute Speech Reveals This President's Entire Life
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist David Maraniss, regarded by his peers as the nation's leading expert on Bill Clinton, sat in a darkened television studio in New York on the night of August 17 and watched the president deliver his curious apologia confessing that he had misled t
The End of Days: Fundamentalism and the Struggle for the Temple Mount
The new millennium dawned quietly, defying modern-day prophets of apocalypse. Yet for countless believers around the globe - Christians, Jews and Muslims - anticipation that the world is about to end burns more intensely than ever.
Bush at War
With his unmatched investigative skill, Bob Woodward tells the behind-the-scenes story of how President George W. Bush and his top national security advisers, after the initial shock of the September 11 attacks, led the nation to war.
America's Crisis
America is steeped in uncertainty. We have been subjected to political terrorism, social aggression, legal anarchy, and media-driven chaos.
The Nobel Peace Prize Lecture
The Nobel Lecture was delivered by Jimmy Carter on December 10, 2002, at the ceremony in Oslo, Norway, where he received the Nobel Prize for Peace.
Amazing Adventure: Joe and Hadassah's Personal Notes on the 2000 Campaign
An Amazing Adventure is a groundbreaking memoir, the personal recollections of Senator Joe Lieberman and his wife, Hadassah, of their 2000 vice presidential campaign. There has never been such a frank account of the American way of running for national office.