Benghazi could have spelled disaster for Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama. With Clinton's assistance, Obama and his cast of troubadours masterfully concealed known policy failures, inadequate funding and totally lax security directly leading to the deaths of four Americans in Libya. Now, with only 52 days remaining until the 2012 general election, something had to happen to salvage what remained of their political careers. Based on the newly released...

Born in Ghana, the gold coast of Africa, Tannor has witnessed firsthand the positive impact Hillary Rodham Clinton has made in the United States and worldwide, especially his home country. Recognizing her as the "ideal woman," he questions the sexism that still exists in American politics and continues to plague Clinton's run for the highest office in the free world. Tannor breaks down much of the misinformation her competitors use against her regarding...

For scholars, pundits, the public, and presidents themselves, presidential approval is an evergreen subject. Its actual impact, however, is often unclear: all too frequently approval is reported in a vacuum, dissociated from the American state writ large. Presidential Leverage reaffirms the importance of this contested metric. By situating approval within the context of public trust in government, Daniel E. Ponder reveals how approval shapes presidential...

Inside this Instaread Summary & Analysis of The Last of the President's Men • Summary of book • Introduction to the Important People in the book • Analysis of the Themes and Author's Style

On January 8, 2011 a gunman opened fire in the parking lot of a Tucson, Arizona supermarket, where U. S. Representative Gabrielle Giffords was holding an opening meeting with her constituents. Nineteen people were wounded, and six people died. Four days later, at a memorial service at the McKale Memorial Center at the University of Arizona, President Obama gave a speech that remembered those who had died, gave thanks to the heroes of that day, and...

A book to challenge the status quo, spark a debate, and get people talking about the issues and questions we face as a country!

We have served America through one of the most consequential periods of our history... President George W. Bush, 2006 State of the Union.

Inside this Instaread Key Takeaways, Analysis & Review of Plunder and Deceit • Overview of the book • Important People • Key Takeaways • Analysis of Key Takeaways

Spin Control, originally published in 1992, chronicles the development of the powerful White House Office of Communications and its pivotal role in molding our perception of the modern presidency. In this new edition, John Maltese brings his analysis up to date with a chapter detailing the media techniques of the Bush administration, the 1992 presidential campaign (including the use of talk shows like 'Larry King Live'), and the early Clinton administration....

There is no shortage of opinions on the legacy that George W. Bush will leave as 43rd President of the United States. Recognizing that Bush the Younger has been variously described as dimwitted, opportunistic, innovative, and bold, it would be presumptuous to draw any hard and fast conclusions about how history will view him. Nevertheless, it is well within academia's ability to begin to make preliminary judgments by weighing the evidence we do have...