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L. Edward Purcell

The Vice Presidents is an expertly written, multiauthor compendium that narrates and explains the lives and careers of America's 45 vice presidents. It is an essential guide for anyone seeking a complete understanding of the development and workings of the United States government, and a great read for those who are fascinated by the interplay of politics and power. The Vice Presidents contains 45 biographies written by prominent experts and scholars; a detailed chronology of the political history of the United States from the Revolution to the second term of Vice President Al Gore; suggested further reading about each vice president; cross-references, a bibliography, and an index; and portraits of all 45 vice presidents.

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Robert Paul Browder

"Covering the years from 1929 to 1935, this is a careful and objective analysis of Soviet-American relations centering around United States recognition of the Soviet Union in 1933, the negotiations leading to recognition, and the disillusionment that followed"--Cover.

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Martin H. Redish

Over the last forty years modern constitutional scholarship has concentrated on an analysis of rights, while principles of constitutional law concerning the structure of government have been largely down-played. The irony of this interpretive emphasis is that the body of the Constitution contains relatively little dealing directly with rights. Rather, it is primarily a blueprint for the establishment of a complex form of federal-democratic structure. The Constitution as Political Structure emphasizes the central role served by the structural portions of the Constitution. Redish argues that these structural values were designed to provide the framework in which our rights-based system may flourish, and that judicial abandonment of these structural values threatens the very foundations of American political theory. In its exposition of the textual and theoretical rationales for judicial enforcement of the structural values embodied in the Constitution, this book presents a principled alternative to the extremes of judicial abdication articulated by certain scholars and Justices on the one hand, and the result-oriented ideological involvement advocated in some quarters on the other. This work will be of great interest to scholars of law and political science.

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Richard Norton Smith

Repeatedly during his eight years as president, George Washington saved the infant republic from the factionalism and the involvement in foreign wars that threatened its existence. He skillfully moderated the feuds among his cabinet -- especially those between Hamilton and Jefferson -- and achieved his own political ends by seeming to be above politics. His actions and character defined the very nature of the presidency and, even more than the Constitution itself, made the new American government work. Better than any biographer before him, Richard Norton Smith gives us the "living" Washington, a working politician beset by crises, a masterly manager of men and events, anything but the time-worn marble monument. - Back cover.