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Summary of The Romanovs by Simon Sebag Montefiore | Includes Analysis Preview: Simon Sebag Montefiore's The Romanovs: 1613-1918 is a chronicle of the Romanov dynasty over its 300-year reign in Russia. The book focuses on the personalities, choices, and actions of the royal family including their sexual and romantic relationships. Montefiore provides extensive quotations from the letters and diaries of the Romanovs, many of them unpublished. By telling...
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Summary of The President's Book of Secrets by David Priess | Includes Analysis Preview: The President's Book of Secrets by David Priess is a journalistic examination of the history of the President's Daily Brief (PDB), a short, top-secret summary of the most important intelligence delivered to the president of the United States each day. The PDB is a document with some of the tightest access controls in the world. Prior to Harry Truman's presidency,...
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Have lawmakers helped themselves while helping the country? After the nation's financial crisis led Congress to unprecedented economic intervention, the Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington Post began an investigation that pierced the secrecy of the deeply flawed financial disclosure system that governs the 535 men and women who draft the nation's laws. Members of Congress directed millions of dollars to infrastructure projects near their residences...
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Focuses on foreign policy. Table of Contents: Preface, Kenneth W. Thompson, Director, White Burkett Miller Center; ^IIntroduction, Kenneth W. Thompson; The President and the National Security Process, Robert J. Pranger, the American Enterprise Institute; The President and the National Security Council Advisor, McGeorge Bundy, former President of the Ford Foundation and NSC advisor under JFK; Foreign Policy in the Eighties: The President and the International...
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America finds itself in a moment of profound and complex governing challenges. A crushing recession followed by a feeble recovery have shaken the foundations of our financial and economic system. We are struggling with the exploding costs of health-care and entitlement spending, and fiscal disaster looms as our society ages. American families are anxious about wage stagnation, barriers to social mobility, and the nation's competitiveness in an era...
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The new edition of this popular book is reorganized to present pairs of contrasting views on what it means to be a man in contemporary Western culture. Addressing such issues as sex differences, fatherhood, intimacy, homosexuality, and oppression; the collection also includes new discussions of paternity, pornography, mixed-race marriage, impotence, and violence. Rethinking Masculinity is an excellent text for gender studies, ethics, and social philosophy...
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In its entirety, through the use of clearly constructed charts, graphs, visuals and text, you will come to understand Ryan's vision for "The Path to Prosperity" including:
- A Blueprint for American Renewal
- Providing for the Common Defense
- Restoring Economic Freedom
- Repairing the Social Safety Net
- Strengthening Health and Retirement Security
- Pro-Growth Tax Reform
- Changing Washington's Culture of Spending
- Lifting the Crushing...
8) En-trampa-miento a la participación en la implementación del Acuerdo de Paz en Colombia (2016-2021)
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En este libro se analizan los procesos y las tendencias de la participación política, en general, y social y comunitaria, en particular, en la implementación del Acuerdo Final de Paz (AFP) firmado entre el Estado colombiano y la guerrilla de las FARC-EP en el 2016. La escogencia de este tema de investigación obedeció a la importancia que le otorgó la Mesa de Conversaciones de la Habana a la participación activa de la sociedad en la terminación...
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Summary, Analysis & Review of Ruth Bader Ginsburg's & et al My Own Words by Instaread Preview: My Own Words is a collection of Ruth Bader Ginsburg's public writing and speeches. It includes biographical information and a discussion of her intellectual interests and positions. Ginsburg was born in 1933 in Brooklyn to a Russian Jewish immigrant family. She excelled in academics and showed an early interest in human rights as evidenced by an eighth-grade...
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The Pulitzer Prize-nominated examination of the United States drone campaign, and U.S. counterterrorism policies. On January 30, 2013, President Barack Obama acknowledged publicly what most Americans already knew: The U.S. government was operating a covert drone campaign in Pakistan. Even as Obama maintained policy was for judicious actions only, his own administration was drawing up secret plans to institutionalize targeted killings in U.S. counter-terrorism...
12) Judging Bush
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There is no shortage of opinions on the legacy that George W. Bush will leave as 43rd President of the United States. Recognizing that Bush the Younger has been variously described as dimwitted, opportunistic, innovative, and bold, it would be presumptuous to draw any hard and fast conclusions about how history will view him. Nevertheless, it is well within academia's ability to begin to make preliminary judgments by weighing the evidence we do have...
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Summary of Crisis of Character by Gary J. Byrne and Grant M. Schmidt | Includes Analysis Preview: Gary J. Byrne was a member of the uniformed division of the Secret Service during the Clinton administration in the 1990s. He was stationed outside the door of the Oval Office and was able to closely observe Bill and Hillary Clinton. His experiences showed him that the Clintons were unfit for high office. Byrne was born in Pennsylvania to Irish American...
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Recent research on the U.S. House of Representatives largely focuses on the effects of partisanship, but the strikingly less frequent studies of the Senate still tend to treat parties as secondary considerations in a chamber that gives its members far more individual leverage than congressmen have. In response to the recent increase in senatorial partisanship, Why Not Parties? corrects this imbalance with a series of original essays that focus exclusively...
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In a democracy, the legitimacy of authority derives from the consent of the governed. Constitutions or long-standing norms typically impose constraints on government authority, but under extraordinary circumstances-emergencies-normal and procedural standards can be overridden or suspended. Such was the case when the COVID-19 pandemic erupted in the spring of 2020. This book describes the emergency powers that existed in the American states at the...
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This little red book brings together many of the longtime Detroit Mayor's most unforgettable lines in a format meant to recall the famous little red book of quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-Tung. It was first published in 1991 by Droog Press, a small Detroit-based press founded by a long-time reporter and editor at the Detroit Free Press. This new edition features quotations that did not make it into the original book and a chronology outlining Coleman...
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Much has been made of the 2016 electoral flip of traditionally Democratic states like Michigan, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, and Ohio to tip Donald Trump into the presidency. Countless think pieces have explored this newfound exotic constituency of blue voters who swung red. But what about those who remain true blue? Red State Blues speaks to the lived experience of progressives, activists, and ordinary Democrats pushing back against simplistic narratives...
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Christopher Wolfe is Professor of Political Science at Marquette University. He is the author of How to Interpret the Constitution, Judicial Activism, and The Rise of Modern Judicial Review.
The role of the United States Supreme Court has been deeply controversial throughout American history. Should the Court undertake the task of guarding a wide variety of controversial and often unenumerated rights? Or should it confine itself to enforcing specific...
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Thieves, liars, killers, and conspirators-it's a criminal world out there, and someone has got to write about it. An eclectic collection of the year's best reportage, The Best American Crime Reporting 2007 brings together the murderers and muscle men, the masterminds, and the mysteries and missteps that make for brilliant stories, told by the aces of the true crime genre. This latest addition to the highly acclaimed series features guest editor Linda...
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E. Scott Adler is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Colorado, Boulder. His current research examines the factors that effect legislative activity and specialization by members of Congress over the course of their careers. He has published articles in the American Journal of Political Science, Legislative Studies Quarterly, and Urban Affairs Review, and is the author of Why Congressional Reforms Fail: Reelection and the...
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