In order to gain and hold onto power, the Clinton administration has acted recklessly, allowing the wrong people to gain access to our most important political and economic secrets. Any number of Chinese arms dealers, spies, narcotics traffickers, gangsters, pimps, accomplices to mass murder, communist agents, and other undesirables will appear in these pages, all associated in one way or anoth…
Dalam buku Dimensi Publik Politik Luar Negeri, mantan Wakil Menteri Luar Negeri dan Duta Besar Amerika Serikat David D. Newson menawarkan analisis tajam dari sudut pandangannya sebagai seorang yang dalam jangka waktu panjang telah mengabdi dalam batas pemerintahan, tentang bagaimana politik luar negeri Amerika Serikat dibentuk dan kadang-kadang dibentuk secara salah. Mulai dengan penjelasan men…
The Best and the Brightest answers these questions more directly and more completely than any other book written on America in the last decade. From the self-doubting of the post-McCarthy era to the phenomenal hubris of the mid-sixties, America is captured within these pages with a lucidity and intelligence that is fascinating. The Best and the Brightest is an enormously important book.
Without neglecting political history, it contains more social history than any other book of similar size. It treats of popular sports and pastimes, such as shooting, fishing, horse racing, and sail- ing: eating and drinking customs; devel- opments in fine arts, music, and medicine; deals with the revolution in sexual mores, and pays particular attention to the American Indian. The parallel his…
I was tired after six and one-half tumultuous years, and I felt that memoirs couldeasily be self-serving. Turn over the documents to the historians, I thought. Soon my energy returned and, as I looked into my record, I felt a renewed sense of excitement about what had happaned on my watch, and a desire to set out the flow of events as they appeared from my own point of view.
In this gripping memoir, John F. Kennedy's closest advisor recounts in full for the first time his experience counseling Kennedy through the most dramatic moments in American history. Sorensen returns to January 1953, when he and the freshman senator from Massachusetts began their extraordinary professional and personal relationship. Rising from legislative assistant to speechwriter and advisor…
Audacity of Hope is Barack Obama's call for a new kind of politics — one built on the shared understanding that unites us as Americans. Lucid in his vision of America's place in the world, candidly candid about his family life and time in the Senate, Obama here sets out his political beliefs and inspires us to believe in the steady optimism that has long defined us and that is our best hope g…
This book is about the crisis Europe. The author has stated the dilemma of Europe with brilliant clarity, precision, and urgency, and because he has had the further audacity to point the way to a solution.
This book offers a historian's reflection on the past and the future of the American experiment. The word 'experiment' is used advisedly. The men who established the United States of America believed that they were trying something new under the sun. The idea that a democratic republic might endure ran against all the teachings of history. The vindication of this idea, said Washington in his fi…
When Hillary Clinton spoke of "a vast right-wing conspiracy" determined to bring down the president, many people dismissed the idea. Yet if the first lady's accusation was exaggerated, the facts that have since emerged point toward a covert and often concerted effort by Bill Clinton's enemies--abetted by his own reckless behavior--which led inexorably to impeachment. Clinton's foes launched a c…