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  • Lady Bird Johnson

    An Oral History

    by Michael L. Gillette ...
    Series series Oxford Oral History Series
    Over a span of eighteen years, Lady Bird Johnson recorded forty-seven oral history interviews with Michael Gillette and his colleagues. These conversations, just released in 2011, form the heart of Lady Bird Johnson: An Oral History, an intimate story of a shy young country girl's transformation into one of America's most effective and admired First Ladies. Lady Bird Johnson's odyssey is one of ... Read more

    $18.09 USD

  • Launching the War on Poverty

    An Oral History

    by Michael L. Gillette ...
    Series series Oxford Oral History Series
    Head Start, Job Corps, Foster Grandparents, College Work-Study, VISTA, Community Action, and the Legal Services Corporation are familiar programs, but their tumultuous beginning has been largely forgotten. Conceived amid the daring idealism of the 1960s, these programs originated as weapons in Lyndon Johnson's War on Poverty, an offensive spearheaded by a controversial new government agency. ... Read more

    $34.19 USD

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  • The Swing Vote

    The Untapped Power of Independents

    by Linda Killian ...
    As our country's politicians engage in bitter partisan battles, focused on protecting their own jobs but not on doing the nation's business, and political pundits shout louder and shriller to improve their ratings, it's no wonder that Americans have little faith in their government. But is America as divided as the politicians and talking heads would have us believe? Do half of Americans stand on ... Read more

    $17.29 USD

  • Invisible Hands

    The Businessmen's Crusade Against the New Deal

    by Kim Phillips-Fein ...
    “A compelling and readable story of resistance to the new economic order.” —Boston GlobeIn the wake of the profound economic crisis known as the Great Depression, a group of high-powered individuals joined forces to campaign against the New Deal—not just its practical policies but the foundations of its economic philosophy. The titans of the National Association of Manufacturers and the chemicals ... Read more

    $12.29 USD

  • Dollarocracy

    How the Money and Media Election Complex is Destroying America

    by John Nichols, Robert W. McChesney ...
    Fresh from the first 10 billion election campaign, two award-winning authors show how unbridled campaign spending defines our politics and, failing a dramatic intervention, signals the end of our democracy.Blending vivid reporting from the 2012 campaign trail and deep perspective from decades covering American and international media and politics, political journalist John Nichols and media critic ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • How to Overthrow the Government

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  • Power in Words

    The Stories behind Barack Obama's Speeches, from the State House to the White House

    by Mary Frances Berry, Josh Gottheimer ...
    Whatever his ratings, Obama remains personally popular, widely acknowledged for his soaring oratory. His words were one of the lasting legacies of his presidential campaign and are proving to be among his most effective governing weapons.In Power in Words, distinguished historian and civil rights activist Mary Frances Berry and former presidential speechwriter Josh Gottheimer introduce Obama’s ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • The Great Society

    50 Years Later

    by The Washington Post ...
    A stirring profile of our 36th president, Lyndon B. Johnson, who presided over one of the most tumultuous eras in our country's history.Lyndon B. Johnson's unprecedented and ambitious domestic vision in the 1960s changed the nation. It unraveled and restitched the very fabric of the American life. It knocked down racial barriers, provided health care for the elderly and food for the poor, ... Read more

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  • The Candidate

    What it Takes to Win - and Hold - the White House

    by Samuel L. Popkin ...
    There are two winners in every presidential election campaign: The inevitable winner when it begins--such as Rudy Giuliani or Hillary Clinton in 2008--and the inevitable victor after it ends. In The Candidate, Samuel Popkin explains the difference between them. While plenty of political insiders have written about specific campaigns, only Popkin--drawing on a lifetime of presidential campaign ... Read more

    $14.29 USD

  • The Eve of Destruction

    How 1965 Transformed America

    by James T. Patterson ...
    At the beginning of 1965, the U.S. seemed on the cusp of a golden age. Although Americans had been shocked by the assassination in 1963 of President Kennedy, they exuded a sense of consensus and optimism that showed no signs of abating. Indeed, political liberalism and interracial civil rights activism made it appear as if 1965 would find America more progressive and unified than it had ever been ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • History Teaches Us to Resist

    How Progressive Movements Have Succeeded in Challenging Times

    by Mary Frances Berry ...
    Historian and civil rights activist proves how progressive movements can flourish even in conservative times.Despair and mourning after the election of an antagonistic or polarizing president, such as Donald Trump, is part of the push-pull of American politics. But in this incisive book, historian Mary Frances Berry shows that resistance to presidential administrations has led to positive change ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

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  • 41

    Inside the Presidency of George H. W. Bush

    Edited by Michael Nelson, Barbara A. Perry ...
    Series series Miller Center of Public Affairs Books
    Although it lasted only a single term, the presidency of George H. W. Bush was an unusually eventful one, encompassing the fall of the Berlin Wall and the reunification of Germany, the dissolution of the Soviet Union, the invasion of Panama, the Persian Gulf War, and contentious confirmation hearings over Clarence Thomas and John Tower. Bush has said that to understand the history of his ... Read more

    $19.99 USD