Author:
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781578520091
Category : History, Modern
Languages : en
Pages : 1290
Book Description
Facts on File Yearbook, 1997
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781578520091
Category : History, Modern
Languages : en
Pages : 1290
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781578520091
Category : History, Modern
Languages : en
Pages : 1290
Book Description
The 1990s
Author: Richard Alan Schwartz
Publisher: Infobase Publishing
ISBN: 143810880X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 513
Book Description
Traces the history of the United States during the 1990s through such primary sources as memoirs, letters, contemporary journalism, and official documents.
Publisher: Infobase Publishing
ISBN: 143810880X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 513
Book Description
Traces the history of the United States during the 1990s through such primary sources as memoirs, letters, contemporary journalism, and official documents.
Facts on File World News Digest Yearbook
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Foreign news
Languages : en
Pages : 1512
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Foreign news
Languages : en
Pages : 1512
Book Description
The Facts on File Guide to Research
Author: Jeff Lenburg
Publisher: Infobase Publishing
ISBN: 1438110405
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 593
Book Description
The Facts On File Guide to Research is a comprehensive guide to doing thorough and accurate research. It includes a detailed listing of available resources and explains general research methods and proper citation of sources. An invaluable reference, this book helps researchers make use of the many new resources available today. Divided into four sections, this easy-to-use guide helps students and general readers prepare for research papers and class studies. Step-by-step guides, detailed explanations, and valuable appendixes covering style guides, such as APA. MLA, and The Chicago Manual of Style, combine to create an incredibly authoritative accessible reference.
Publisher: Infobase Publishing
ISBN: 1438110405
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 593
Book Description
The Facts On File Guide to Research is a comprehensive guide to doing thorough and accurate research. It includes a detailed listing of available resources and explains general research methods and proper citation of sources. An invaluable reference, this book helps researchers make use of the many new resources available today. Divided into four sections, this easy-to-use guide helps students and general readers prepare for research papers and class studies. Step-by-step guides, detailed explanations, and valuable appendixes covering style guides, such as APA. MLA, and The Chicago Manual of Style, combine to create an incredibly authoritative accessible reference.
The Presidential Difference
Author: Fred I. Greenstein
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0743203119
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
As Americans choose and install a new president for a new century they could do no better than to read this work by one of our keenest observers of the modern presidency. Drawing on a quarter-century's immersion in the presidential record and scores of interviews, Fred I. Greenstein provides a fascinating and instructive account of the qualities that have served well and poorly in the Oval Office from Franklin D. Roosevelt's first hundred days to the end of the Clinton administration. Greenstein offers a series of bottom-line judgments on each of his eleven subjects and a bold new explanation of why presidents succeed or fail. Previous analysts have placed their bets on the president's political prowess or personal character. Yet by the first standard, LBJ should have been our greatest president, and by the second the nod would go to Jimmy Carter. Greenstein surveys each president's record in public communication, political skill, vision, cognitive style, and emotional intelligence. He concludes that the last is by far the most important. According to Greenstein, FDR provides endless positive lessons but is a source of warnings. Truman let his bizarre readings of history lead him astray. Eisenhower was wise but failed to communicate a vision. Kennedy had no vision. Reagan was Carter in reverse. It is Ford who is most unappreciated and genuinely interesting. Ford balanced many conflicting demands, kept his poise, and left the office much stronger than he found it. Presidents can avoid failure if they are willing to accept the warnings of failures past and act accordingly. But it is not only presidents who should read this book with care. Some flaws cannot be overcome no matter how otherwise talented the man. Only three of Greenstein's eleven modern presidents were "fundamentally free of distracting emotional perturbations." When we choose our presidents, we will do well to listen to Greenstein and "Beware the presidential contender who lacks emotional intelligence. In its absence all else may turn to ashes."
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0743203119
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
As Americans choose and install a new president for a new century they could do no better than to read this work by one of our keenest observers of the modern presidency. Drawing on a quarter-century's immersion in the presidential record and scores of interviews, Fred I. Greenstein provides a fascinating and instructive account of the qualities that have served well and poorly in the Oval Office from Franklin D. Roosevelt's first hundred days to the end of the Clinton administration. Greenstein offers a series of bottom-line judgments on each of his eleven subjects and a bold new explanation of why presidents succeed or fail. Previous analysts have placed their bets on the president's political prowess or personal character. Yet by the first standard, LBJ should have been our greatest president, and by the second the nod would go to Jimmy Carter. Greenstein surveys each president's record in public communication, political skill, vision, cognitive style, and emotional intelligence. He concludes that the last is by far the most important. According to Greenstein, FDR provides endless positive lessons but is a source of warnings. Truman let his bizarre readings of history lead him astray. Eisenhower was wise but failed to communicate a vision. Kennedy had no vision. Reagan was Carter in reverse. It is Ford who is most unappreciated and genuinely interesting. Ford balanced many conflicting demands, kept his poise, and left the office much stronger than he found it. Presidents can avoid failure if they are willing to accept the warnings of failures past and act accordingly. But it is not only presidents who should read this book with care. Some flaws cannot be overcome no matter how otherwise talented the man. Only three of Greenstein's eleven modern presidents were "fundamentally free of distracting emotional perturbations." When we choose our presidents, we will do well to listen to Greenstein and "Beware the presidential contender who lacks emotional intelligence. In its absence all else may turn to ashes."
Cold War America, 1946 To 1990
Author: Facts on File Inc
Publisher: Infobase Publishing
ISBN: 1438107986
Category : Cold War
Languages : en
Pages : 689
Book Description
Uses statistical tables, charts, photographs, maps, and illustrations to explore everyday life in the United States during the Cold War period.
Publisher: Infobase Publishing
ISBN: 1438107986
Category : Cold War
Languages : en
Pages : 689
Book Description
Uses statistical tables, charts, photographs, maps, and illustrations to explore everyday life in the United States during the Cold War period.
DeathQuest
Author: Robert M. Bohm
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1437755402
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 496
Book Description
The first true textbook on the death penalty, this text provides an exhaustive introduction, starting with its history and taking the reader through the facts, issues, opinions and controversies surrounding capital punishment. The author’s motivation has been to understand what motivates the "deathquest" of the American people, leading a large percentage of the public to support the death penalty. The book will educate readers so that whatever their death penalty opinions are, they are informed ones. Discussion questions accompany each chapter. Appendix contains ABA guidelines for appointment and performance of defense counsel in death penalty cases.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1437755402
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 496
Book Description
The first true textbook on the death penalty, this text provides an exhaustive introduction, starting with its history and taking the reader through the facts, issues, opinions and controversies surrounding capital punishment. The author’s motivation has been to understand what motivates the "deathquest" of the American people, leading a large percentage of the public to support the death penalty. The book will educate readers so that whatever their death penalty opinions are, they are informed ones. Discussion questions accompany each chapter. Appendix contains ABA guidelines for appointment and performance of defense counsel in death penalty cases.
An Outsider in the White House
Author: Betty Glad
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 9780801448157
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
Based on recently declassified documents in the Carter Library and interviews, this book is a nuanced depiction of the relationship between policy and character. It is also a poignant history of damaged ideals.
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 9780801448157
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
Based on recently declassified documents in the Carter Library and interviews, this book is a nuanced depiction of the relationship between policy and character. It is also a poignant history of damaged ideals.
Taiwan
Author: Linda K. Colding
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Taiwan
Languages : en
Pages : 56
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Taiwan
Languages : en
Pages : 56
Book Description
Facts on File Yearbook, 1991
Author: Facts On File, Incorporated
Publisher: Facts on File
ISBN: 9780816027576
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 1284
Book Description
Weekly news digests cover all of the year's major events and report on such areas as science, sports, medicine, religion, plays, and prominent personalities.
Publisher: Facts on File
ISBN: 9780816027576
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 1284
Book Description
Weekly news digests cover all of the year's major events and report on such areas as science, sports, medicine, religion, plays, and prominent personalities.