George W. Bush

Congressional scholars Thomas Mann and Norman Ornstein identify two overriding problems that have led Congress—and the United States—to the brink of institutional collapse....

This landmark, myth-shattering work chronicles the most powerful institution in America....

Can an honest man become president? In The Race, this timely and provocative novel from bestselling author Richard North Patterson, a maverick candidate takes on his political enemies and the ruthless machinery of American politics....

Conservative shock-mistress Ann Coulter continues her pillorying of American liberals with a follow-up to Slander....

As violence in Iraq reaches unnerving levels in 2006, a second front in the war rages at the highest levels of the Bush administration....

Leaders and leadership are perennial topics of debate. What is leadership? How does one become a leader? Keith Grint offers provocative answers to these questions, prompting listeners to rethink their assumptions about what leadership is....

In The Way to Win, two of the country's most accomplished political reporters explain what separates the victors from the victims....

Robert Kagan, one of the country’s most influential strategic thinkers, paints a vivid, alarming picture of what the world might look like if the United States were truly to let its influence wane....

Former secretary of state and best-selling author Madeleine Albright offers provocative ideas about how to confront the striking array of challenges that the next commander-in-chief will face....

This scathing critique of US political culture is a brilliant analysis of the Iran-Contra scandal....

A groundbreaking book about the modern presidency, The Clinton Tapes invites readers into private dialogue with a gifted, tormented, resilient President of the United States....

Barack Obama won the presidency in 2008 partly because he was a Washington outsider. But when he got to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, that distinction turned out to be double-edged....

Beneath the surface events of the Bush presidency lies a secret history, a series of hidden events that makes a mockery of current debate....

Exhaustively researched and compellingly presented, The Presidents and the Constitution shines new light on America's brilliant constitutional and presidential history....

Osamah Khalil argues that the militarization of US domestic and foreign affairs was the product of America's failure in Vietnam. Unsettled by their inability to prevail in Southeast Asia, US leaders increasingly came to see a host of problems as immune to political solutions.

Americans frequently criticize US foreign policy for being overly costly and excessively militaristic. With its rising defense budgets and open-ended "forever wars," US foreign policy often appears disconnected from public opinion....

Two-time New York City police commissioner Ray Kelly opens up about his remarkable life, taking us inside 50 years of law enforcement leadership....

Set during the tumultuous middle of the George W. Bush years, Landfall brings Thomas Mallon's cavalcade of contemporary American politics, which began with Watergate and continue with Finale, to a vivid and emotional climax....

America's decision to go to war in Iraq in 2003 is arguably the most important foreign policy choice of the entire post-Cold War era. Nearly two decades after the event, it remains central to understanding current international politics and US foreign relations....

Reflections will delight Barbara Bush's millions of admirers with the former First Lady's warmth and wit, as well as with candid revelations and anecdotes from a full and fascinating life....