Posts Tagged ‘Presidency’

Candice Millard

June 18 . 2012

Destiny of the Republic is author Candice Millard‘s account of James A. Garfield rise from poverty to the presidency and the history of his assassination and legacy.

Nancy Gibbs, Michael Duffy

May 14 . 2012

In The Presidents Club, journalists and presidential historians Nancy Gibbs and Michael Duffy offer a new tool to understand the presidency by exploring the club as a hidden instrument of power that has changed the course of history.

Darrin Grinder

April 18 . 2012

Darrin Grinder’s, The Presidents and Their Faith is a fascinating and informative look at how every U.S. president exercised their personal faith, exerted presidential power, and led a religiously diverse nation.

David Corn, Mark Potok

April 16 . 2012

In Showdown, political journalist David Corn captures the dilemmas faced by a president assailed by disappointed progressives and defiantly obstructionist Republicans determined to see his defeat. Then, Mark Potok with the Southern Poverty Law Center talks about the rise of racial intolerance in the Trayvon Martin case.

Timothy Stanley

April 4 . 2012

Timothy Stanley‘s, The Crusader tells the fascinating life story of Pat Buchanan, the three-time presidential candidate, Nixon confidant, White House communications director during Iran-Contra, pundit, and bestselling author.

Thomas Mallon

March 30 . 2012

In Watergate, Thomas Mallon conveys the drama and high comedy of the Nixon presidency through the urgent perspectives of seven characters we only thought we knew before now.

Gary Dorrien

March 22 . 2012

Many progressives charge that Obama has betrayed the causes that he espoused in 2008 but Gary Dorrien offers a critique of the president and presents a powerful case saying that those supporters should not give up on him in The Obama Question.

Elizabeth Price Foley

March 5 . 2012

In The Tea Party, Elizabeth Price Foley takes on the mainstream media’s characterization of the movement, saying that it has been distorted in a way that prevents meaningful political dialogue and may even be dangerous for America’s future.

Andy Andrews, Elaine Tyler May

February 27 . 2012

Andy Andrews is the author of How Do You Kill 11 Million People? about voter apathy and America’s current political culture. Then, Elaine Tyler May, professor at the University of Minnesota and author of America and the Pill talks about her piece in the Washington Post, “How the Catholic Church almost came to accept birth control‘.

Sally Denton

February 24 . 2012

In The Plots Against the President, Sally Denton follows Franklin D. Roosevelt as he struggled to right the teetering nation, armed with little more than indomitable optimism and the courage to try anything.