Reggie Love is a unique witness to history, whose introduction to Washington was working in Junior Senator Barack Obama’s mailroom. As “body man” to Obama during his first presidential campaign, Love’s job was to stay one step behind the candidate, but think and act three steps ahead during a typical eighteen-hour workday. As President Obama’s personal aide during that momentous first term, Love sat yards from the Oval Office and often spent more time with the President than anyone else. While his experiences were unique, the lessons he learned during his tenure with the President are universal. Persistence. Responsibility. Passion for a cause greater than yourself. In short, maturity.Love has been singularly lucky in his mentors. At Duke University, where he was a walk-on and a captain of its fabled basketball team, Love learned from Coach Krzyzewski that sports builds character—from President Obama, Love learned that how you conduct your life defines your character. Accountability and serving with honor were learned during unsought moments: co-coaching with Malia Obama’s and Sasha Obama’s basketball team with the President; lending Obama his tie ahead of a presidential debate; managing a personal life when no hour is truly your own. From his first interview with Senator Obama, to his near-decision not to follow the President-elect to the White House, Love drew on Coach K’s teachings as he learned to navigate Washington. But it was while owning up to (temporarily) losing the President’s briefcase, playing pick-up games in New Hampshire to secure votes, babysitting the children of visiting heads of state, and keeping the President company at every major turning point of his historic first campaign and administration, that Love learned how persistence and passion can lead not only to success, but to a broader concept of adulthood. Power Foward is a professional coming of age story like no other.

The woman who served as counselor to President George W. Bush describes her work in the White House and her decision to place her family first and leave her position in the nation's capital to return home to Austin, Texas.

An inside look at the life of Karen Hughes, President George W. Bush's most respected aide and confidante.

A timely and intimate look into Abraham Lincoln’s White House through the lives of his two closest aides and confidantsLincoln’s official secretaries John Hay and John Nicolay enjoyed more access, witnessed more history, and knew Lincoln better than anyone outside of the president’s immediate family. Hay and Nicolay were the gatekeepers of the Lincoln legacy. They read poetry and attendeded the theater with the president, commiserated with him over Union army setbacks, and plotted electoral strategy. They were present at every seminal event, from the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation to Lincoln’s delivery of the Gettysburg Address—and they wrote about it after his death.In their biography of Lincoln, Hay and Nicolay fought to establish Lincoln’s heroic legacy and to preserve a narrative that saw slavery—not states’ rights—as the sole cause of the Civil War. As Joshua Zeitz shows, the image of a humble man with uncommon intellect who rose from obscurity to become a storied wartime leader and emancipator is very much their creation.Drawing on letters, diaries, and memoirs, Lincoln’s Boys is part political drama and part coming-of-age tale—a fascinating story of friendship, politics, war, and the contest over history and remembrance.

In this collection of essays, a number of critics offer commentary on the crime fiction genre, exploring the kinds of pleasure it offers. Looking under the attractive surface of these books, the contributors discover a number of complex issues.

Product Description: The things we love are the things that last... Which people touched your life most deeply? In what way do those memories define you today? Which positive pieces of your past have you carried with you into adulthood?In The Forever Box, Kristin Clark Taylor embarks on a journey into the happiest days of her own youth...read more

Product Description: February 6th, 2011 would have been the 100th birthday of a man who is remembered as a friend, as a father, as a movie actor -- and as the leader of the free world for two terms during a time of major world change. John A. Svahn's There Must Be a Pony in Here Somewhere is a candid reflection from one of Ronald Reagan's chief policy advisors, given the opportunity to observe many meaningful moments and events...read more

Product Description: The powerful story an illegitimate, black foster care child, the unwavering faith of his white adoptive mother, and their improbable journey to prove that when hard work, determination and grace meet opportunity… anything can happen...read more

Product Description: The Shepherd's Path is the story of one Texas frontier family's journey across the stage of a historic century and how it impacted the life of a firstborn daughter, Georgia Brister Morris. These chronicled events provide a taste of what life was like for families who lived through the first quarter of the twentieth century, the challenges of the Great Depression, the grief and sacrifices of World War II, and the explosion of golden opportunities following the war...read more

Highlights the life and accomplishments of Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, the second woman and the first African American to hold that office.

A completely up-to-date text for one of the most dynamic upper-level and graduate courses in marketing departments today. It offers the entire range of international marketing topics beginning with start-up operations, continuing with new market entry considerations, and concluding with the international issues confronting giant global marketers.

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This fourth edition has been updated to reflect changes in the field since the last edition of 1988. It features two new sections, one covering microsensors and the other detailing the many organizations pertinent to electronics engineering. There is material on digital computing, measurement and control circuits, computer-aided design, reliability, lasers and optoelectronics, video, audio and telecommunications.