by Mitchell B. Lerner (2005)
"Drawing upon a wealth of new sources, including recently released phone conversations, these authors shine a bright and probing light on LBJ's beleaguered White House tenure. Collectively, they reinforce the image of Johnson as a highly complex president whose very real achievements have been overshadowed by character flaws and events well beyond his control."--BOOK JACKET.
Herbert Y. Schandler
This book examines the events that led up to the day--March 31, 1968--when Lyndon Johnson dramatically renounced any attempt to be reelected president of the United States. It offers one of the best descriptions of U.S. policy surrounding the Tet offensive of that fateful March--a historic turning point in the war in Vietnam that led directly to the end of American military intervention.
Jerry Zeifman
Without Honor documents that the Judiciary Committee's investigation of Watergate was a sham in which present First Lady Hillary Clinton, recent White House counsel Bernard Nussbaum, and others who served on the impeachment inquiry staff abdicated their responsibilities to conduct a thorough investigation. Instead, the sham inquiry was structured by its leaders - all of whom were high Justice Department officials during the Kennedy administration - to avoid disclosure of the crimes of Camelot.
Daniel D. Stid
A political scientist who went on to become president, Woodrow Wilson envisioned responsible government, in which a strong leader and principled party would integrate the separate executive and legislative powers - but this ideal was constantly challenged by political reality. Daniel Stid explores Wilson's evolving views on the notion of responsible government and his endeavors as a statesman to establish it in the United States. Stid graphically describes how Wilson grappled, with the constitutional separation of powers, first as an academic and then as president, and he demonstrates the importance of Wilson's effort for American political thought and history.
E.J. Dionne Jr. and Joy-Ann Reid
Barack Obama's political life can be chronicled through a series of major addresses in which he spoke to the nation with a voice uniquely his own. His eloquence, both written and spoken, propelled him to national prominence and ultimately made it possible for the son of a Kenyan man and a white woman from Kansas to become the first black president of the United States.