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The Inaugural Address, 2009
Penguin Group US 2009; US$ 12.00Celebrate the inauguration of America's 44th president with this New York Times bestseller Tying into the official theme for the 2009 inaugural ceremony, "A New Birth of Freedom" from Lincoln's Gettysburg Address , Penguin presents a keepsake edition commemorating the inauguration of President Barack Obama with words of the two great thinkers... more...
State of the Union
CQ Press, a Division of SAGE 2006; US$ 161.00Through an expansive collection of primary source materials and original, informative introduction and headnotes, State of the Union: Presidential Rhetoric from Woodrow Wilson to George W. Bush explores ways in which modern U.S. presidents have appealed directly to the public and how the public has responded. State of the Union: Presidential Rhetoric... more...
The Inaugural Addresses of Twentieth-Century American Presidents
ABC-CLIO 1993; US$ 119.95The essays in Halford Ryan's The Inaugrual Addresses of Twentieth-Century American Presidents explore how presidents have used their addresses to empower themselves in office. The volume's construct holds that the president delivers persuasive speeches to move the Congress and the people, and to move the people to move the Congress if it is... more...
Research in Social Movements, Conflicts and Change
Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2010; US$ 134.95Research in Social Movements, Conflicts and Change showcases deeply empirical and often multi-method research by senior and junior scholars alike. Comparative analysis and qualitative case studies push into new territories in this illuminating and important research which seeks to define and advance the multiple fields reflected in the series title. more...
Full Disclosure
Cambridge University Press 2007; US$ 17.00Full Disclosure is the first analysis of national and international transparency policies. more...
Fellow Citizens
Penguin Group US 2008; US$ 16.00The complete American presidential inaugural addresses featuring historical background by a National Book Award winner A testament to the power of oratory, this stirring and often surprising collection includes all fifty-five United States presidential inaugural addresses, as well as a general introduction and commentary that provides historical... more...
Inside Gitmo
HarperCollins 2009; US$ 19.99The U.S. military detention center at Guantánamo Bay?known to the public as Gitmo?has been called the American Gulag, a scene of medieval horrors where innocent farmers and goat herders swept up in Afghanistan and Iraq have been sequestered, tortured, and abused for years on end without access to legal counsel or basic medical services. Gordon Cucullu,... more...
Fragile Alliances
ABC-CLIO 2005; US$ 175.00How did the alliance between labor and the Democratic Party develop after the First World War? What role does Evansville play in an examination of this alliance? What was the impact of the alliance on U.S politics and society? These are some of the questions that Samuel W. White tackles in his book Fragile Alliances: Labor and Politics in Evansville,... more...
Historical Dictionary of Political Communication in the United States
ABC-CLIO 1999; US$ 101.95Entries in this dictionary focus on the people, organizations, events, and ideas that have been significant in the slightly more than two centuries of political communication in this country. The intent is to highlight those events and ideas that still have significance todayÑthus from the signing of the Declaration of Independence to the threshold... more...
My Fellow Americans
ABC-CLIO 1992; US$ 168.00The presidency, in Theodore Roosevelt's famous words, is a Bully Pulpit. No one has studied the presidency from this vantage point. This book, in a sense, is a study of American political history seen through the prism of selected presidential addresses. It reveals how presidents used major addresses to create a theme for their administrations,... more...









