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Category : President's Room (United States Capitol, Washington, D.C.)
Languages : en
Pages : 2
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The President's Room
Author: Ricardo RomeroPublisher: Charco Press
ISBN: 1999722736
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 82
Book Description
A taut, appealing, and often quite funny exploration of existential angst."—Kirkus Reviews In a nameless suburb in an equally nameless country, every house has a room reserved for the president. No one knows when or why this came to be. It’s simply how things are, and no one seems to question it except for one young boy.The room is kept clean and tidy, nobody talks about it and nobody is allowed to use it. It is for the president and no one else. But what if he doesn’t come? And what if he does? As events unfold, the reader is kept in the dark about what’s really going on. So much so, in fact, that we begin to wonder if even the narrator can be trusted...Ricardo Romero has been compared to Franz Kafka and Italo Calvino, and we see why in this eerie, meditative novel narrated by a shy young boy who seems to be very good at lying about the truth. Following in the footsteps of Julio Cortázar and a certain literary tradition of sinister rooms (such as Dr Jekyll’s laboratory), The President’s Room is a mysterious tale based on the suspicion that a house is never just one single home.
The Room Where It Happened
Author: John BoltonPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1982148055
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 608
Book Description
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.
The Presidents
Author: United States. National Park ServicePublisher:
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Category : Historic sites
Languages : en
Pages : 624
Book Description
A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents, 1789-1897: 1869-1881
Author: United States. PresidentPublisher:
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Category : Presidents
Languages : en
Pages : 674
Book Description
Slum Virgin
Author: Gabriela Cabezón CámaraPublisher:
ISBN: 9781999722708
Category : Buenos Aires (Argentina)
Languages : en
Pages : 147
Book Description
A wild, baroque adventure into the margins of Buenos Aires, where poverty, corruption, and gender identity meet a vision of the Virgin Mary.
A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents
Author: United States. PresidentPublisher:
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Category : Presidents
Languages : en
Pages : 816
Book Description
A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents, 1789-1897
Author: United States. PresidentPublisher:
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Category : Presidents
Languages : en
Pages : 672
Book Description
A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents, Prepared Under the Joint Committee on Printing of the House and Senate, Pursuant to an Act of the Fifty-second Congress of the United States (with Additions and Encyclopedic Index by Private Enterprise)
Author: United States. PresidentPublisher:
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Category : Presidents
Languages : en
Pages : 552
Book Description
Rand, McNally & Co.'s Pictorial Guide to Washington and Environs ...
Author: The Standard Guide, Washington
Author: Charles Bingham ReynoldsPublisher:
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Category : Washington (D.C.)
Languages : en
Pages : 206
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