A definitive biography describes the personal and political life of Dean Acheson, who, in tandem with President Harry S. Truman, created the American force that won the Cold War and established a world order still in existence today. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.

Analyzes the current balance of power between the three branches of U.S. government, detailing how recent clashes over the exercise of powers has exposed a fundamental imbalance between the executive and legislative branches

Analyzes the current balance of power between the three branches of U.S. government, detailing how recent clashes over the exercise of powers has exposed a fundamental imbalance between the executive and legislative branches

Product Description: Now in paperback, a no-holds-barred biography of New York Governor Andrew Cuomo by Vanity Fair writer Michael Shnayerson. He is the most fascinating politician in American today: tactically brilliant, charismatic, yet also dark, brooding, and vindictive...read more

Product Description: Delves into the political and personal life of the New York State governor, who some believe is destined for the White House.

The deposed Chief of Staff charts his political rise and fall, offering a lively critique of the Reagan administration, particularly 'Irangate' and the ensuing chaos for which many blamed Regan

Product Description: “An engrossing personal narrative and a thoughtful reflection on leadership.” ―Henry Kissinger In a life that has spanned nearly nine decades and has taken him across the world and back, W. Michael Blumenthal has borne witness to the world’s convulsions and transformations during the twentieth century...read more

A major historical biography of George C. Marshall - the general who ran the US campaign during the Second World War, the Secretary of State who oversaw the successful rebuilding of postwar Europe, and the winner of the Nobel Peace Prize-and the first to offer a complete picture of his life. While Eisenhower, Patton, Bradley, Montgomery, McArthur, Nimitz, and Leahy waged battles in Europe and the Pacific, one military leader actually ran World War II for America, overseeing personnel and logistics: Chief of Staff of the US Army from 1939 to 1945, George C. Marshall. This interpretive biography of George C. Marshall follows his life from his childhood in Western Pennsylvania and his military training at the Virginia Military Institute to his role during and after World War II and his death in 1959 at the age of seventy-eight. It brings to light the virtuous historical role models who inspired him, including George Washington and Robert E. Lee, and his relationships with the Washington political establishment, military brass, and foreign leaders, from Harry Truman to Chiang Kai Shek. It explores Marshall's successes and failures during World War II and his contributions through two critical years of the emerging Cold War - including the transformative Marshall Plan, which saved Western Europe from Soviet domination, and the failed attempt to unite China's nationalists and communists. Based on breathtaking research and filled with rich detail, George Marshall is sure to be hailed as the definitive work on one of the most influential figures in American history.

Product Description: A major historical biography of George C. Marshall--the general who ran the US campaign during the Second World War, the Secretary of State who oversaw the successful rebuilding of postwar Europe, and the winner of the Nobel Peace Prize--and the first to offer a complete picture of his lifeWhile Eisenhower, Patton, Bradley, Montgomery, McArthur, Nimitz, and Leahy waged battles in Europe and the Pacific, one military leader actually ran World War II for America, overseeing personnel and logistics: Chief of Staff of the US Army from 1939 to 1945, George C...read more

Problems arise for classmate Enid Rollins, who is sure that their small house is not big enough to fit three generations, when her grandmother comes to live with her and her mother.

Henry Morgenthau, Jr. was a young man living in an interesting political and social atmosphere. Surrounded by people who viewed the world through a Social Darwinist lens, and grappling with his identity as an American Jew during the atrocities of WWII in Europe, Henry Morgenthau, Jr. played an integral role as Roosevelt’s secretary of the treasury during a tough economic and political time. Henry Morgenthau, Jr. explores the life of this native New Yorker, growing up in a business-minded family, spending most of his teenage years at boarding school, and feeling isolated from his peers. Morgenthau found true passion in farming, and it served him well during the years that FDR was governor of New York and again after Morgenthau’s retirement from political life. Morgenthau established not only a working relationship with FDR during his presidency, but also a personal relationship, one that allowed him some freedom of expression in what he viewed as a sometimes intolerant era. Herbert Levy has done extensive research at the archives in Hyde Park to include many of Morgenthau’s personal letters in this in-depth account of the man who crafted a controversial plan for the reconstitution of Germany. This book explores the complex and oftentimes frustrating world in which Morgenthau was forced to live and illuminates his odyssey as a Roosevelt technocrat.

Product Description: Mel Martinez, the United States’ first Cuban-American senator, came to Florida in 1962 as part of Operation Pedro Pan. His rags-to-riches climb through county, state, and national politics has the character of a storybook saga.In this evenhanded, inspiring, and deeply satisfying biography, Richard Foglesong demonstrates that Martinez became a politician not from an ego-driven desire to exercise power and capture attention, but from a morally driven desire to return the favor for all that he and his family received from their adopted country...read more