[PDF] The Battle For The White House From Bush To Obama eBook

Author : Mary Frances Berry
Publisher : Beacon Press
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 30,75 MB
Release : 2010
Category : History
ISBN : 080700104X

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Collection of 18 of Obama's most memorable speeches between 2002 and 2008, each introduced by Berry and Gottheimer with political analysis, historical context, and commentary from the speechwriters.

Author : Martha Joynt Kumar
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 34,79 MB
Release : 2015-06-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1421416603

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An expert on presidential transitions illuminates the factors necessary for a successful handoff. Winner of the CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title of the Choice ACRL It's one of the hallmarks of American democracy: on inauguration day, the departing president heeds the will of the people and hands the keys to power to a successor. The transition from one administration to the next sounds simple, even ceremonial. But in 2009, as President George W. Bush briefed President-elect Barack Obama about the ongoing wars and plummeting economy he'd soon inherit, the Bush team revealed that they were grappling with a late-breaking threat to the presidency: U.S. intelligence sources believed that a terror group with links to Al Qaeda planned to attack the National Mall during the inaugural festivities. Although this violence never materialized, its possibility made it clear that well-laid contingency plans were essential. Political scientist Martha Joynt Kumar uncovered this secret peril while interviewing senior Bush and Obama advisers for her latest book. In Before the Oath, Kumar documents how two presidential teams—one outgoing, the other incoming—must forge trusting alliances in order to help the new president succeed in his or her first term. Kumar enjoyed unprecedented access to several incumbent and candidate transition team members, and she combines in-depth scholarship with one-on-one interviews to put readers squarely behind the scenes. Using the Bush-Obama handoff as a lens through which to examine the presidential transition process, Kumar interweaves examples from previous administrations as far back as Truman-Eisenhower. Her subjects describe in vivid detail the challenges of sowing campaign ideals across a sprawling executive branch as Congress, the media, and external events press in. Kumar's lively account of lessons learned and pitfalls encountered during past presidential transitions provides an essential road map for presidential aspirants and their advisers, as well as campaign workers, federal employees, and political appointees.

Author : A. Bennett
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 35,21 MB
Release : 2015-12-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781349443512

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Anthony Bennett guides us through the events of the four elections of the 21st century, showing how this era of partisanship has reshaped not only presidential nominations and elections, but the American presidency and politics itself.

Author : Bert A. Rockman
Publisher : CQ Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 21,73 MB
Release : 2011-07-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1544350228

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In the latest volume in this classic series, Rockman, Rudalevige, and Campbell once again bring together top-notch scholars, this time to take a comprehensive look at the first two years of Barack Obama’s presidency. Assessing Obama’s political strategy, as well as his administration’s successes and setbacks, chapter authors critically examine a presidency marked by continued partisanship, major policy battles, and continued global turmoil.

Author : A. Bennett
Publisher : Springer
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 46,54 MB
Release : 2013-10-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1137268638

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Anthony Bennett guides us through the events of the four elections of the 21st century, showing how this era of partisanship has reshaped not only presidential nominations and elections, but the American presidency and politics itself.

Author : John A. Torres
Publisher : Enslow Publishing, LLC
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 35,87 MB
Release : 2017-07-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0766085368

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From humble beginnings and a nontraditional upbringing, Barack Obama worked his way through law school and then onto Chicago’s political scene. After serving in the state legislature and one term in the Senate, Obama became the first African American president elected in the United States. His mettle would immediately be tested as he inherited a country at war—with terror. This ongoing conflict seems to have no end in sight. Read about the president’s actions to defeat the terror organizations that threaten America’s safety. Quotes from the two-term president himself bring readers into the Situation Room, where matters of life and death are decided.

Author : Richard Wolffe
Publisher : Crown
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 15,64 MB
Release : 2010-11-16
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0307717437

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Revival is the dramatic inside story of the defining period of the Obama White House. It is an epic tale that follows the president and his inner circle from the crisis of defeat to historic success. Over the span of an extraordinary two months in the life of a young presidency, Obama and his senior aides engaged in a desperate struggle for survival that stands as the measure of who they are and how they govern. Bestselling Obama biographer Richard Wolffe draws on unrivaled access to the West Wing to write a natural sequel to his critically acclaimed book about the president and his campaign. Starting at the first anniversary of the inauguration, Wolffe paints a portrait of a White House at work under exceptional strain across a sweeping set of challenges: from health care reform to a struggling economy, from two wars to terrorism.

Author : Chuck Todd
Publisher : Little, Brown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,76 MB
Release : 2014-11-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780316079570

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Chuck Todd's gripping, fly-on-the-wall account of Barack Obama's tumultuous struggle to succeed in Washington. Barack Obama won the presidency in 2008 partly because he was a Washington outsider. But if he'd come to the White House thinking he could change the political culture, he soon discovered just how difficult it was to swim against an upstream of insiders, partisans, and old guard networks allied to undermine his agenda---including members of his own party. He would pass some of the most significant legislation in American history, but his own weaknesses torpedoed some of his greatest hopes. In THE STRANGER, Chuck Todd draws upon his unprecedented inner-circle sources to create a gripping account of Obama's White House tenure, from the early days of drift and helplessness to a final stand against the GOP in which an Obama, at last liberated from his political future, finally triumphs.

Author : Ralph Nader
Publisher : Seven Stories Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 10,73 MB
Release : 2018-08-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1609808487

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America’s number one citizen Ralph Nader’s latest book shows us how unchecked corporate power has led to the wrecking ball that is the Trump presidency. Nader brings together the outrages of the Trump administration with the key flaws and failures of the previous administrations—both Republican and Democratic—that have led our nation to its current precipice. It’s all in the details and Ralph Nader knows them all. Trump didn’t come out of nowhere. Bush and Obama led the way. Writing as a Washington, DC, activist and people’s advocate for over fifty years―someone who has saved more lives and caused more impactful legislation to be enacted than almost any sitting president or legislator—Nader shows how Trump’s crimes and misdemeanors followed the path of no resistance of the Obama, Bush and Clinton regimes, which ushered in the extreme rise of corporate power and the abandonment of the poor and middle classes.