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61) Power
Pub. Date
1999.
Language
English
Description
This film depicts the political candidates tactics as they try to get elected and the media consultants hired to sell them to the public.
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
The filmmaker deftly fuses the personal, the political and the just plain surreal as it charts the rise and fall of Fox News Chairman, Roger Ailes. Variously called a bulldog, a kingmaker, and the Ernest Hemingway of campaign advisors, Ailes was a key media consultant to Presidents Nixon, Reagan and George H.W. Bush, powerfully shaping American political history over the last fifty years. In 2016, Ailes was forced out of Fox amid multiple allegations...
Author
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
Español
Description
Desafiando las expectativas, estadísticas y estereotipos, Alberto Gonzales se ha convertido en uno de los hombres más poderosos de América. Gonzales es una figura clave en la administración de Bush, mantiene puntos de vista espinosos y posiciones muy influyentes acerca de los asuntos que polarizan a la nación. Su apoyo indiscutible a George W. Bush, cuya presidencia va más allá de lo "controversial," es un estudio fascinante en la política...
67) Nixon's White House wars: the battles that made and broke a president and divided America forever
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"Pat Buchanan, bestselling author and former senior adviser to President Richard Nixon in the White House, for the first time describes his years advising the president throughout the two terms of his administration, up until he resigned office in August 1974 in the wake of Watergate"--
"From Vietnam to the Southern Strategy, from the opening of China to the scandal of Watergate, Pat Buchanan--speechwriter and senior adviser to President Nixon--tells...
Author
Pub. Date
2008.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
A revelatory look at the decisions that led to the U.S. involvement in Vietnam, drawing on the insights and reassessments of one of the war's architects
"I had a part in a great failure. I made mistakes of perception, recommendation and execution. If I have learned anything I should share it."
These are not words that Americans ever expected to hear from McGeorge Bundy, the national security adviser to Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson....
Author
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Franklin Roosevelt was the first great hero of American Jews. FDR's promise of economic and social justice was consonant with the mainstays of Jewish culture and with the ethos of the Old Testament and the prophets. And of course, these themes were especially resonant during the desperate days of the Great Depression.
The Jews who so deeply admired Roosevelt made up the richest, most influential Jewish community in the world, leaders in government,...
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