Author: William Warner BishopPublisher:
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Category : Libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 26
Book Description
Pamphlets and Reprints
Author: William Warner BishopPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 26
Book Description
The Kansas Historical Quarterly
Author: Kirke MechemPrairie Fever: British Aristocrats in the American West 1830-1890
Author: Peter PagnamentaPublisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393072398
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 379
Book Description
Recounts the lives and adventures of British aristocrats who explored and settled in the American West between 1830 and 1890, becoming landowners and making social adjustments to rub elbows with fur traders, Indians, and buffalo.
Lexington Quarterly
Author: The Publishers Weekly
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1030
Book Description
The Power of Habeas Corpus in America
Author: Anthony GregoryPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107036437
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 433
Book Description
This book tells the story of habeas corpus from medieval England to modern America, crediting the rocky history to the writ's very nature as a government power. The book weighs in on habeas's historical controversies - addressing the writ's role in the power struggle between the federal government and the states, and the proper scope of federal habeas for state prisoners and for wartime detainees from the Civil War and World War II to the War on Terror.
Subject Guide to Books in Print
Author: Publisher:
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 2476
Book Description
Dictionary Catalog of the History of the Americas
Author: New York Public Library. Reference DepartmentPublisher:
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Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 1140
Book Description
Quarterly Review of Military Literature
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Military art and science
Languages : en
Pages : 628
Book Description
Republic of Spin: An Inside History of the American Presidency
Author: David GreenbergPublisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393285502
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 575
Book Description
“A brilliant, fast-moving narrative history of the leaders who have defined the modern American presidency.”—Bob Woodward In Republic of Spin—a vibrant history covering more than one hundred years of politics—presidential historian David Greenberg recounts the rise of the White House spin machine, from Teddy Roosevelt to Barack Obama. His sweeping, startling narrative takes us behind the scenes to see how the tools and techniques of image making and message craft work. We meet Woodrow Wilson convening the first White House press conference, Franklin Roosevelt huddling with his private pollsters, Ronald Reagan’s aides crafting his nightly news sound bites, and George W. Bush staging his “Mission Accomplished” photo-op. We meet, too, the backstage visionaries who pioneered new ways of gauging public opinion and mastering the media—figures like George Cortelyou, TR’s brilliantly efficient press manager; 1920s ad whiz Bruce Barton; Robert Montgomery, Dwight Eisenhower’s canny TV coach; and of course the key spinmeisters of our own times, from Roger Ailes to David Axelrod. Greenberg also examines the profound debates Americans have waged over the effect of spin on our politics. Does spin help our leaders manipulate the citizenry? Or does it allow them to engage us more fully in the democratic project? Exploring the ideas of the century’s most incisive political critics, from Walter Lippmann and H. L. Mencken to Hannah Arendt and Stephen Colbert, Republic of Spin illuminates both the power of spin and its limitations—its capacity not only to mislead but also to lead.