Download or read book The President of an Empty Room written by Steven Knight and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stage debut at National Theatre for Oscar-nominated writer of Dirty Pretty Things.
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Download or read book The President s Hero written by Louis V. Rohr and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2014-03-11 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jack Malloy, former All American football player from Notre Dame and a running back for the New York Jets, becomes a bum when his football days are over. His classmate, Sam Shalom, becomes the president of the United States. As president Shalom is concerned with the high cost of incarcerating prisoners. He plans to use an abandoned Naval base in the South Pacific to determine if 500 prisoners can support themselves. He needs someone to represent him on the island. The individual must be courageous, strong, likeable, and a bit crazy. He thinks of Jack Malloy. The FBI finds Jack in jail with a bunch of drunks. Jack is brought to Washington D.C. where he meets the first lady and falls in love with her. Jacks mind rebels at the idea of coping with hundreds of hardened criminals on an isolated island, but hes desperate for work, needs food, and a place to live. Moreover, he wants to get as far away as possible from the first lady. Hes a drunk but he doesnt want to make a fool of himself. He agrees to help the President and join the criminals on the island.
Download or read book The Empty House written by and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The President s House Is Empty written by Michael Hardt and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2019-04-30 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The President's House is Empty: Losing and Gaining Public Goods explores the question of what we—the public—owe each other as free and equal members of a democratic society. With essays by writers and thinkers like Bonnie Honig, this collection attempts to make sense of the current administration's disdain for public things like the White House, public education, and clean water.
Download or read book The President s Lady written by Irving Stone and published by HarperChristian + ORM. This book was released on 1996-08-13 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this acclaimed biographical novel, Irving Stone brings to life the tender and poignant love story of Rachel and Andrew Jackson. "Beyond any doubt one of the great romances of all time." -- The Saturday Review of Literature
Download or read book The Room Where It Happened written by John Bolton and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2020-06-23 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As President Trump’s National Security Advisor, John Bolton spent many of his 453 days in the room where it happened, and the facts speak for themselves. The result is a White House memoir that is the most comprehensive and substantial account of the Trump Administration, and one of the few to date by a top-level official. With almost daily access to the President, John Bolton has produced a precise rendering of his days in and around the Oval Office. What Bolton saw astonished him: a President for whom getting reelected was the only thing that mattered, even if it meant endangering or weakening the nation. “I am hard-pressed to identify any significant Trump decision during my tenure that wasn’t driven by reelection calculations,” he writes. In fact, he argues that the House committed impeachment malpractice by keeping its prosecution focused narrowly on Ukraine when Trump’s Ukraine-like transgressions existed across the full range of his foreign policy—and Bolton documents exactly what those were, and attempts by him and others in the Administration to raise alarms about them. He shows a President addicted to chaos, who embraced our enemies and spurned our friends, and was deeply suspicious of his own government. In Bolton’s telling, all this helped put Trump on the bizarre road to impeachment. “The differences between this presidency and previous ones I had served were stunning,” writes Bolton, who worked for Reagan, Bush 41, and Bush 43. He discovered a President who thought foreign policy is like closing a real estate deal—about personal relationships, made-for-TV showmanship, and advancing his own interests. As a result, the US lost an opportunity to confront its deepening threats, and in cases like China, Russia, Iran, and North Korea ended up in a more vulnerable place. Bolton’s account starts with his long march to the West Wing as Trump and others woo him for the National Security job. The minute he lands, he has to deal with Syria’s chemical attack on the city of Douma, and the crises after that never stop. As he writes in the opening pages, “If you don’t like turmoil, uncertainty, and risk—all the while being constantly overwhelmed with information, decisions to be made, and sheer amount of work—and enlivened by international and domestic personality and ego conflicts beyond description, try something else.” The turmoil, conflicts, and egos are all there—from the upheaval in Venezuela, to the erratic and manipulative moves of North Korea’s Kim Jong Un, to the showdowns at the G7 summits, the calculated warmongering by Iran, the crazy plan to bring the Taliban to Camp David, and the placating of an authoritarian China that ultimately exposed the world to its lethal lies. But this seasoned public servant also has a great eye for the Washington inside game, and his story is full of wit and wry humor about how he saw it played.
Download or read book Gunsmith Giant 14 written by J. R. Roberts and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2009-10-27 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Clint Adams is on the trail of a forgotten hero—a hero with a rep for revenge… Clint Adams knows that it only takes one bullet to make a man a legend. Such was the case with Boston Corbett--the man who shot Lincoln's assassin, John Wilkes Booth. But some legends can't be lived up to, and Corbett ended up in a Topeka insane asylum—until he escaped. Now Adams is trying to bring Corbett back alive and in one piece. But there are others hunting him with more lethal ends in mind. And the Gunsmith must find the living legend before a killer's bullet makes him history… OVER 15 MILLION GUNSMITH BOOKS IN PRINT!
Download or read book John Kenneth Galbraith written by Richard Parker and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2015-05-12 with total page 862 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The life and times of America's celebrated economist, assessing his lessons-and warnings-for us today. John Kenneth Galbraith's books—among them The Affluent Society and American Capitalism—are famous for good reason. Written by a scholar renowned for energetic political engagement and irrepressible wit, they are models of provocative good sense that warn prophetically of the dangers of deregulated markets, war in Asia, corporate greed, and stock-market bubbles. Galbraith's work has also deeply-and controversially-influenced his own profession, and in Richard Parker's hands his biography becomes a vital reinterpretation of American economics and public policy. Born and raised on a small Canadian farm, Galbraith began teaching at Harvard during the Depression. He was FDR's "price czar" during the war and then a senior editor of Fortune before returning to Harvard and to fame as a bestselling writer. Parker shows how, from his early championing of Keynes to his acerbic analysis of America's "private wealth and public squalor," Galbraith regularly challenged prevailing theories and policies. And his account of Galbraith's remarkable friendship with John F. Kennedy, whom he served as a close advisor while ambassador to India, is especially relevant for its analysis of the intense, dynamic debates that economists and politicians can have over how America should manage its wealth and power. This masterful chronicle gives color, depth, and meaning to the record of an extraordinary life.
Download or read book The Presidential Papers written by John Kessel and published by PM Press. This book was released on 2024-10-29 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mixing satire, farce, and dystopia, the stories in John Kessel's The Presidential Papers deconstruct the character and politics of five imagined presidents, some of whom bear striking resemblance to individuals who have occupied the Oval Office over the last thirty years. Who are these men and what makes them so funny, when they are not terrifying? How damaged does a person need to be to seek such power, why do we vote for them, and what do they think about the 1959 Washington Senators? In "The Franchise," aging career minor leaguer George H.W. Bush faces ace New York Giants pitcher Fidel Castro in the 1959 World Series. "The Last American" outlines the career of the final president of the United States and his thirty-three years in office. Can the megalomaniac President of the Solar System evade the consequences of his moronic rule in the original play "A Brief History of the War with Venus"? In our Outspoken Interview we learn about crossing Mary Shelley with Jane Austen, about having classic SF writer James Gunn as a mentor, about being a spy in the English department, and about industrial capitalism, immigrants, and Buffalo, New York.
Download or read book Everybody s Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 906 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States written by United States. President and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 854 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Containing the public messages, speeches, and statements of the President", 1956-1992.
Download or read book Bellum Sanctum written by Nicholas Anthony and published by Austin Macauley Publishers. This book was released on 2024-04-26 with total page 652 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Parallel discoveries of a God-like power inflame a thousand-year-old hatred. Radical science and religious fervour combine in a new form of terror... When former eco-warrior Dr Daniel Bayford discovers something extraordinary in the hills of Southern France, he and meteorologist Dr Kara Williams become the unwitting targets of a powerful secret guild and the world’s most-wanted terrorist group. Bizarre events, betrayal, and stubborn curiosity propel them on a dangerous quest to uncover dark truths and sinister connections... ...and prevent the mother of all religious wars.
Download or read book My American Journey written by Colin L. Powell and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2010-12-29 with total page 701 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “A great American success story . . . an endearing and well-written book.”—The New York Times Book Review Colin Powell is the embodiment of the American dream. He was born in Harlem to immigrant parents from Jamaica. He knew the rough life of the streets. He overcame a barely average start at school. Then he joined the Army. The rest is history—Vietnam, the Pentagon, Panama, Desert Storm—but a history that until now has been known only on the surface. Here, for the first time, Colin Powell himself tells us how it happened, in a memoir distinguished by a heartfelt love of country and family, warm good humor, and a soldier’s directness. My American Journey is the powerful story of a life well lived and well told. It is also a view from the mountaintop of the political landscape of America. At a time when Americans feel disenchanted with their leaders, General Powell’s passionate views on family, personal responsibility, and, in his own words, “the greatness of America and the opportunities it offers” inspire hope and present a blueprint for the future. An utterly absorbing account, it is history with a vision.
Download or read book Remembering America written by Richard N. Goodwin and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2014-08-05 with total page 483 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the speechwriter and top adviser to presidents Kennedy and Johnson: A behind-the-scenes history of the most momentous decade in American politics. Richard N. Goodwin entered public service in 1958 as a law clerk for Supreme Court Associate Justice Felix Frankfurter. He left politics ten years later in the aftermath of Senator Robert F. Kennedy’s assassination. Over the course of one extraordinary decade, Goodwin orchestrated some of the noblest achievements in the history of the US government and bore witness to two of its greatest tragedies. His eloquent and inspirational memoir is one of the most captivating chronicles of those turbulent years ever published. From the Twenty-One quiz-show scandal to the heady days of John F. Kennedy’s presidential campaign to President Lyndon Johnson’s heroic vote wrangling on behalf of civil rights legislation, Remembering America brings to life the most fascinating figures and events of the era. As a member of the Kennedy administration, Goodwin charted a new course for US relations with Latin America and met in secret with Che Guevara in Uruguay. He wrote Johnson’s historic civil rights speech, “We Shall Overcome,” in support of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 and formulated the concept of the Great Society and its programs, which sought to eradicate poverty and racial injustice. After breaking with Johnson over the president’s commitment to the Vietnam War, Goodwin played a pivotal role in bringing antiwar candidate Eugene McCarthy to within a few hundred votes of victory in the 1968 New Hampshire primary. Three months later, he was with his good friend Robert F. Kennedy in Los Angeles the night that the young senator’s life—and the progressive movement that had rapidly brought about such significant change—came to a devastating end. Throughout this critical decade, Goodwin held steadfast to the passions and principles that had first led him to public service. Remembering America is a thrilling account of the breathtaking victories and heartbreaking disappointments of the 1960s, and a rousing call to action for readers committed to justice today.
Download or read book Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States Ronald Reagan 1987 written by Reagan, Ronald and published by Best Books on. This book was released on 1989-01-01 with total page 852 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States
Download or read book Portraying the President written by Michael Grossman and published by Johns Hopkins University Press. This book was released on 1981-02-01 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The media have become principal actors on the American political scene. Politicians and their press secretaries release news items with one eye on the event and the other on the millions of voters who depend on the White House press corps to keep them informed about the workings of their government. Portraying the President explores the inner workings of the relationship between the White House and the press. Rather than emphasize the well-publicized sparring between inquisitive reporters and evasive administrative spokesmen intent on enhancing the President's public image, the authors stress the vast amount of cooperation between journalists and their sources. They point out the similarities of the White House-media relationship in recent administrations and suggest what shape it is likely to take in the future. The authors also address the key issues of information management and manipulation by both the administration and the press. Grossman and Kumar demonstrate that, whether a lower level staff member leaks a news item to elevate his own status or an official spokesman mentions a new policy proposal in order to gather support, the release of information to the White House press corps involves complicated strategies among a number of administrative personnel. Washington reporters, aware of some of these tactics, compensate by cultivating personal sources and trading information with officials. Nevertheless, the routine nature of White House reporting and the competitiveness of modern news organizations often trap the reporter into what has been called "pack journalism." Interviews with current and former White House reporters, including Bob Schieffer, Tom Brokaw, James Naughton, James Reston, and John Osborne, give Portraying the President an authentic, firsthand sound and feel. Comments from Ron Nessen, Gerald Rafshoon, Jody Powell, and other presidential spokesmen and advisors, give insight into White House operations during the Nixon, Ford, and Carter administrations. Portraying the President provides information vital to an appreciation of the modern American political system. Its thought-provoking conclusions will be of interest political scientists, media specialists, and anyone interested in current affairs.
