Author: Vance Kincade
Publisher: Praeger
Keywords: presidential, praeger, series, studies, dilemma, heirs, solving, vice, apparent
Number of Pages: 168
Published: 2000-04-30
List price: $106.95
ISBN-10: 0275968669
ISBN-13: 9780275968663

The vice presidency ought to be a springboard to the presidency. However, only Martin Van Buren and George Bush were elected president while serving as vice president. Kincade analyzes their victories and offers a path for future vice presidents seeking the presidency.

Authors:Kurt Ritter, Martin J. Medhurst,
Publisher: TAMU Press
Keywords: presidential, rhetoric, series, revolution, reagan, speechwriting, new
Number of Pages: 248
Published: 2004-03-15
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 1585443921
ISBN-13: 9781585443925

The rise of the media presidency through radio and television broadcasts has heightened the importance of presidential speeches in determining the U.S. president’s effectiveness and popularity. Not surprisingly, this development has also witnessed the rise of professional speechwriters. The chapters in this book (two by former White House speechwriters) give insight into the process of presidential speechwriting, from Franklin D. Roosevelt’s administration to Ronald Reagan’s.

Authors:Martin J. Medhurst, James Arnt Aune,
Publisher: TAMU Press
Keywords: rhetoric, presidential, series, prospect
Number of Pages: 400
Published: 2008-01-17
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 1585446270
ISBN-13: 9781585446278

Culminating a decade of conferences that have explored presidential speech, "The Prospect of Presidential Rhetoric" assesses progress and suggests directions for both the practice of presidential speech and its study. In Part One, following an analytic review of the field by Martin Medhurst, contributors address the state of the art in their own areas of expertise. Roderick P. Hart then summarizes their work in the course of his rebuttal of an argument made by political scientist George Edwards: that presidential rhetoric lacks political impact. Part Two of the volume consists of the forward-l

Author: Paul F. Boller Jr.
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: anecdotes, presidential
Number of Pages: 472
Published: 1996-04-25
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 0195097319
ISBN-13: 9780195097313

Dramatic, poignant, hilarious, and sentimental, anecdotes about our presidents are as varied as the presidents themselves. This new and revised edition of ’Presidential Anecdotes’ recounts some of the most striking stories about America’s 42 chief executives, from Washington to Clinton, shedding light on the presidents as human beings and on the culture that produced them.

Author: Stephen Hess
Publisher: Brookings Inst Pr
Keywords: campaign, presidential
Number of Pages: 132
Published: 1988-01
List price: $16.95
ISBN-10: 0815736002
ISBN-13: 9780815736004

Author: W.E.B. Griffin
Publisher: Putnam Adult
Keywords: novel, agent, presidential, hunters
Number of Pages: 528
Published: 2007-01-02
List price: $26.95
ISBN-10: 0399153799
ISBN-13: 9780399153792

Delta Force Major Charley Castillo returns in the third crackling adventure in Griffin’s #1 New York Times-bestselling series. The first two novels in W. E. B. Griffin’s exciting new Presidential Agent series, By Order of the President and The Hostage, immediately raced up the bestseller lists-The Hostage debuting at #1. The Hunters picks up right where The Hostage left off. Two brutal murders and millions of missing dollars in the growing UN/Iraq oil-for-food scandal have lead Castillo and his team to an estancia in Uruguay, where, to his shock, the man they are seeking is h

Author: Harold Krent
Publisher: NYU Press
Keywords: powers, presidential
Number of Pages: 287
Published: 2005-02-01
List price: $50.00
ISBN-10: 0814747825
ISBN-13: 9780814747827

"Krent’s mastery of both the history and the law surrounding presidential power assures that the book will be a significant and unique contribution to its field." —William Marshall, University of North Carolina School of Law Originally articulated in Article II of the Constitution, presidential powers are dictated today by judicial as well as historical precedent. To better understand the ways the president wields power as well as how this power is kept in check by other branches of government, Harold J. Krent presents three overlapping determinants of the president’s role un