US Politics & Presidency

David Mendell / Obama : From Promise to Power (Large Paperback)

  A method for annotating a message executes at a computing device having one or more processors and memory. The memory stores one or more programs configured for execution by the one or more...

David Olive / An American Story : The Speeches of Barack Obama (Large Paperback)

   Barack Obama, junior senator from Illinois, first captured America's attention with his keynote address to the Democratic National Convention in 2004. Now, as presumptive Democratic...

David Remnick / The Bridge : The Life and Rise of Barack Obama

 The rise of Barack Obama is one of the great stories of this century: a defining moment for America, and one with truly global resonance. This is the book of his phenomenal journey to election,...

Diana Walker / Public and Private: Twenty Years Photographing the Presidency (Coffee Table Book)

TIME magazine's award-winning photographer offers a fascinating array of 130 photographic images that provide a unique glimpse of the public and private sides of six presidential administrations,...

Donald Rumsfeld / Known and Unknown (Large Paperback)

  Few Americans have spent more time near the center of power than Donald Rumsfeld, whose widely commented-on memoir offers many previously undisclosed details about his service with four U.S...

Donald W. Shriver Jr. / Honest Patriots : Loving a Country Enough to Remember Its Misdeeds (Hardback)

In Honest Patriots , renowned public philosopher and ethicist Donald W. Shriver, Jr. argues that we must acknowledge and repent of the morally negative events in the US nation's past. The failure to...

Edward M. Kennedy / True Compass: A Memoir (Hardback)

 In this landmark autobiography, five years in the making, Senator Edward M. Kennedy tells his extraordinary personal story--of his legendary family, politics, and fifty years at the center of...

Eric Alterman, Mark J. Green / The Book on Bush: How George W. (Mis)leads America (Hardback)

   Both authors are well known and have appeared on the Today show, Larry King, Oprah, The Tonight Show, The Daily Show, Book Notes, Charlie Rose, Crossfire, Nightline, and NewsHour with...

Evan Osnos / Joe Biden : American Dreamer (Large Paperback)

 The new biography of President Joe Biden by National Book Award winner and New Yorker staff writer Evan Osnos - A Financial Times, Guardian and Daily Express Book of the Year'A thoroughly...

Feather Schwartz Foster / Mary Lincoln's Flannel Pajamas (Signed by the Author) (Large Paperback)

Did Mary Lincoln really wear flannel pajamas? Why was Martha Washington's "dress" turned into a pincushion? How did Julia Grant's hat show support for the Confederacy? Did Edith Wilson really track...

G. John Ikenberry / Liberal Leviathan: The Origins, Crisis, and Transformation of the American World Order (Hardback)

 A new vision for the American world orderIn the second half of the twentieth century, the United States engaged in the most ambitious and far-reaching liberal order building the world had yet...

Garen Thomas / Yes We Can : A Biography of President Barack Obama

  In this biography, author Garen Thomas tells the fascinating story of Barack Obama: from his childhood, through his youth, his term as senator from Illinois, to his historic and...