This book examines America's economy over the past several decades and the sources of our recent success and comes to surprising conclusions about what we can learn from it.
Hillary Rodham Clinton is known to hundreds of millions of people around the world. But few outside his close friends and family have heard the story of his extraordinary journey. She writes with candor, humor, and passion about her upbringing in suburban, middle-class America in the 1950s and her transformation from Goldwater Girl to student activist to controversial First Lady. Living History…
Traces post-World War II presidential leadership, discussing how the strengths and weaknesses of each president from Truman to Bush have shaped political strategies and historical achievements
The Agenda is a day-by-day, often minute-by-minute account of Bill Clinton's White House. Drawing on hundreds of interviews, confidential internal memos, diaries, and meeting notes, Woodward shows how Clinton and his advisers grappled with questions of lasting importance -- the federal deficit, health care, welfare reform, taxes, jobs. One of the most intimate portraits of a sitting president e…
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.
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…
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…
This forthright book is a bold and unequivocal yet objective analysis of the malady and its remedies. The author, whose distinguished career has brought him a deep knowledge of Asia, has concluded that we cannot have a truly peaceful world until Asia is closer to prosperity and stability. This we cannot impose, but only encourage. Our direct strategic, economic, and even political interests in …
"In the 1990s Americans have been thinking incessantly about the leveling winds of cultural forces. They Have been worrying about the power of those winds swiftly to level the works of government, such as laws and schools, and of centuries, such as families and standards of taste and traditions of civility.
To politicians he was an intellectual. To intellectuals he was a politician. To others he was a shining beacon of hope. Adlai Stevenson's combination of eloquence, vision, sophistication, and popular appeal has few equals in American national life and for many he has remained one of the last great political heroes of our time.