Theodore H. White

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Oregon

The Making of the President 1956-1980

America in Search of Itself

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Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Michigan

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At the beginning of the century, the majority of Americans were satisfied with the way things were going in the United States. And then a slow decline began, seemingly uninterrupted by changes in party or achievements by the White House. As the campaigning for the next president begins, the question we ask ourselves now is who will be the most competent leader? In Why Presidents Fail and How They Can Succeed Again, Elaine Kamarck asks another important question: When did Americans lose faith in their leaders? And how can they get it back?

Kamarack argues that presidents today spent too much time talking, and not enough time governing. After decades of "imperial" and "rhetorical" presidencies, we are in need of a "managerial" president. In her fully readable and accessible book, she explains the difficulties of governing in our modern political landscape, and offers examples and recommendations of how our next president can not only recreate faith in leadership, but also run a competent, successful administration.
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Why Presidents Fail and How They Can Succeed Again

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Florida

Entertaining, up-to-the minute, and easy-to-use, The Look-It-Up Book of Presidents features a short, lively biography of every president from George Washington through the winner of the 2012 presidential election, plus a chapter on Election 2000--the "year of the chad." It includes concise descriptions of the major events, issues, and achievements of each administration, and is fully illustrated in black and white with engravings, cartoons, and photographs.  In-print and updated after every presidential election since 1968, it's an easy-to-use, affordable alternative to hardcover home reference books like National Geographic's Our Country's Presidents at $24.95. An invaluable resource that the whole family will turn to again and again, The Look-It-Up Book of Presidents is American history in a nutshell.

Look-It-Up Book of Presidents

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David Rubel

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Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

Massachusetts

The Scholastic Encyclopedia of the Presidents and Their Times

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Excellent condition for age except missing dust jacket. 

Pictorial History of American Presidents 

Behind the Scenes with Agents in the Line of Fire and the Presidents They Protect

A behind-the-scenes account of the experiences of Secret Service agents draws on interviews with more than 100 current and former agents who served during the administrations of such presidents as JFK, George W. Bush, and Barack Obama.

In the President's Secret Service

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David C. Whitney

Robin Vaughn Whitney

Kentucky

Biographies of the Chief Executives from Washington Through Clinton

Vivid profiles of the chief executives, from George Washington to Bill Clinton.

The American Presidents

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Sheri Holman

New York

Celebrating the recent birth of eleven babies born to a local couple after fertility treatments, the citizens of Three Chimneys, Virginia, set out to re-create the making of an original Thomas Jefferson-era, 1,235-pound cheese. By the author of The Dress Lodger. 125,000 first printing. $100,000 ad/promo.

The Mammoth Cheese

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Brian Kilmeade

Don Yaeger

New Jersey

The Forgotten War That Changed American History

The forgotten war that changed American history.

Thomas Jefferson and the Tripoli Pirates

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Jenna Bush Hager

Barbara Pierce Bush

Laura Bush

Maryland

Stories from Our Wild and Wonderful Life

#1 New York Times Bestseller Former first daughters and #1 bestselling authors Jenna Bush Hager and Barbara Pierce Bush share intimate stories and reflections from the Texas countryside to the storied halls of the White House and beyond. Born into a political dynasty, Jenna and Barbara Bush grew up in the public eye. As small children, they watched their grandfather become president; just twelve years later they stood by their father's side when he took the same oath. They spent their college years watched over by Secret Service agents and became fodder for the tabloids, with teenage mistakes making national headlines. But the tabloids didn't tell the whole story. In SISTERS FIRST, Jenna and Barbara take readers on a revealing, thoughtful, and deeply personal tour behind the scenes of their lives, as they share stories about their family, their unexpected adventures, their loves and losses, and the sisterly bond that means everything to them.

Sisters First

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Inside the Lives of the World's 250 Most Influential People

In celebration of 15 years of the TV show, Biography, DK has partnered with A&E Network to produce Ultimate Biography, a book featuring 250 of the most important, beloved, influential, and notorious people who have ever lived. Full color.

Ultimate Biography

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Robert Dallek

Delaware

Lyndon Johnson and His Times, 1961-1973

Lone Star Rising, the first volume in Robert Dallek's biography of LBJ, was hailed as "a triumphant portrait of Lyndon Johnson as rich and oversized and complex as the nation that shaped him." Now, in the final volume, Dallek takes us through Johnson's tumultuous years in the White House, hisunprecedented accomplishments there, and the tragic war that would be his downfall.In these pages Johnson emerges as a character of almost Shakespearean dimensions, a man riddled with contradictions, a man of towering intensity and anguished insecurity, of grandiose ambition and grave self-doubt, a man who was brilliant, crude, intimidating, compassionate, overbearing,driven: "A tornado in pants." Drawing on hundreds of newly released tapes and extensive interviews with those closest to LBJ--including fresh insights from Ladybird and his press secretary Bill Moyers--Dallek takes us behind the scenes to give us a portrait of Johnson that is at once even-handedand completely engrossing. We see Johnson as the visionary leader who worked his will on Congress like no president before or since, enacting a range of crucial legislation, from Medicare, environmental protection, and the establishment of the National Endowment of the Arts and Humanities to themost significant advances in civil rights for black Americans ever achieved. And we see for the first time the depth of Johnson's private anguish as he became increasingly ensnared in Vietnam, a war he did not want to expand and which destroyed his hopes for The Great Society and a second term.Exhaustively researched and gracefully written, Flawed Giant reveals both the greatness and the tangled complexities of one of the most extravagant characters ever to step onto the presidential stage.

Flawed Giant

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Nevada

The Shocking Assassination That Changed America

Describes the events surrounding the assassination of Abraham Lincoln and the hunt to track down John Wilkes Booth and his accomplices.

Killing Lincoln

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Biographies of the chief executives from Washington through Carter

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Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

The Little Book of Weird Presidential History

An irreverent look at Presidential foibles, follies, fibs, and moral failures

Were past presidents smarter, more honest, and better behaved that those we elect today? Don't bet on it! White House Confidential shows that commanders-in-chief have been lying, cheating, stealing, and womanizing from the days of the Founding Fathers. Focusing on the qualities that never made it into White House press releases, the authors look at their sexual misdeeds and strange family relationships, scandals that engulfed administrations, fights with enemies, and questionable money matters. Dip into these pages to find out:

Which president was famous for being the richest man alive because of all his brilliant real estate deals?
Which president was born in Canada, and was ineligible to hold the office of president?
Which president caused some problems by trying to grow "strange herbs" in the White House garden?
Which president often ordered White House staff to rub Vaseline into his scalp while he ate breakfast in bed?
Which president often called his deputy chief of staff "Turd Blossom"?

Updated with new material about many presidents including George W. Bush and Barack Obama, White House Confidential will have you laughing (and sometimes cursing!) as you take a second look at the next occupant of the Oval Office.

White House Confidential

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Book has significant wear from age, stain mark to a few pages (see images), still an okay ready copy.

Pennsylvania

A novel of Mary Todd and Abraham Lincoln

Love is Eternal

Presents a biography of the third president of the United States, focusing on his childhood, his writing of the Declaration of Independence, and remembering him today.

Thomas Jefferson

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This is two books one bookings of US presidents workbook with reward stickers grades 3 through 6 and the other is a French math book grades 2-4, see pictures for examples of contents included selling for very affordable price

Virginia

Math

US presidents workbook and French version of division math

Louisiana

Five Presidents and the Legacy of Watergate

Examines the legacy of Watergate in terms of how Nixon's disgrace forever altered American politics and culture

Shadow #5

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Bob Woodward

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Alabama

Shadow

A History of the End of the Cold War

The author of Rise of the Vulcans presents a controversial analysis of the fortieth president's role in ending the cold war, in a provocative report that challenges popular beliefs, reveals lesser-known aspects of the Reagan administration's foreign policy, and cites the contributions of such figures as Nixon, Kissinger, and Gorbachev.

The Rebellion of Ronald Reagan

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Peter Schweizer

#1 New York Times Bestseller!

Peter Schweizer has been fighting corruption―and winning―for years. In Throw Them All Out, he exposed insider trading by members of Congress, leading to the passage of the STOCK Act. In Extortion, he uncovered how politicians use mafia-like tactics to enrich themselves. And in Clinton Cash, he revealed the Clintons’ massive money machine and sparked an FBI investigation.

Now he explains how a new corruption has taken hold, involving larger sums of money than ever before. Stuffing tens of thousands of dollars into a freezer has morphed into multibillion-dollar equity deals done in the dark corners of the world.

An American bank opening in China would be prohibited by US law from hiring a slew of family members of top Chinese politicians. However, a Chinese bank opening in America can hire anyone it wants. It can even invite the friends and families of American politicians to invest in can’t-lose deals.

President Donald Trump’s children have made front pages across the world for their dicey transactions. However, the media has barely looked into questionable deals made by those close to Barack Obama, Joe Biden, John Kerry, Mitch McConnell, and lesser-known politicians who have been in the game longer.

In many parts of the world, the children of powerful political figures go into business and profit handsomely, not necessarily because they are good at it, but because people want to curry favor with their influential parents. This is a relatively new phenomenon in the United States. But for relatives of some prominent political families, we may already be talking about hundreds of millions of dollars.

Deeply researched and packed with shocking revelations, Secret Empires identifies public servants who cannot be trusted and provides a path toward a more accountable government.



Texas

How the American Political Class Hides Corruption and Enriches Family and Friends

From the New York Times bestselling author of Clinton Cash comes an explosive new political expose!

Secret Empires

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Abraham Lincoln

A Book of Quotations

From the most eloquent of American presidents — nearly 400 astute observations on subjects ranging from women and warfare to slavery and storytelling.

The Wit and Wisdom of Abraham Lincoln

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Nancy J. Skarmeas

A chronicle of America's leaders paths to the presidency, the events that defined their terms, and the activities that they pursued after leaving office. It includes photos or paintings of the president and an excerpt from a speech.

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Theodore H. White

America in Search of Itself

Elaine C. Kamarck

Why Presidents Fail and How They Can Succeed Again

Wyatt Blassingame; Alice Jonaitis (Editor)

Look-It-Up Book of Presidents

David Rubel

The Scholastic Encyclopedia of the Presidents and Their Times

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Pictorial History of American Presidents

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In the President's Secret Service

David C. Whitney; Robin Vaughn Whitney

The American Presidents

Sheri Holman

The Mammoth Cheese

Brian Kilmeade; Don Yaeger

Thomas Jefferson and the Tripoli Pirates

Jenna Bush Hager; Barbara Pierce Bush; Laura Bush

Sisters First

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Ultimate Biography

Robert Dallek

Flawed Giant

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Killing Lincoln

David C. Whitney

The American Presidents

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White House Confidential

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Love is Eternal

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Thomas Jefferson

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US presidents workbook and French version of division math

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The Wit and Wisdom of Abraham Lincoln

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