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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
Goddess of the market	Jennifer Burns	Worshipped by her fans, denounced by her enemies, and forever shadowed by controversy and scandal, the novelist and philosopher Ayn Rand was a powerful thinker whose views on government and markets s…	OL13771777W
Then everything changed	Jeff Greenfield	The New York Times bestseller from Jeff Greenfield, the renowned CBS News senior political correspondent and veteran of CNN and ABC news, offering an alternative history of America. These things are …	OL15414395W
Known and Unknown	Donald Rumsfeld	Donald Rumsfeld tells the story of his career serving as a Congressman, and working for several Presidents in different capacities including two stints as Secretary of Defense. He describes Rumsf…	OL15670836W
The whole damn deal	Kathryn J. McGarr	"Robert S. Strauss was for many decades the quintessential Democratic power broker. Born to a poor Jewish family in West Texas, he founded the law firm that became Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld, …	OL15951541W
Haunting legacy	Marvin L. Kalb	"Examines how presidential decisionmaking has been influenced by America's defeat in the Vietnam war, studying presidents Ford, Carter, Reagan, George H. W. Bush, Clinton, George W. Bush, and Obama a…	OL15991324W
Chasing spies	Athan G. Theoharis	Publisher's description: The long history of the Federal Bureau of Investigation under J. Edgar Hoover is studded with serious questions about the Bureau's professionalism and accountability. Revelat…	OL16028951W
Globetrotting	Damion L. Thomas	x, 209 pages ; 23 cm	OL16591941W
To touch the face of God	Kendrick Oliver	"In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth..." In 1968 the world watched as Earth rose over the moonscape, televised from the orbiting Apollo 8 mission capsule. Radioing back to Houston …	OL16654324W
Frank	Barney Frank,Barney Frank	Growing up in Bayonne, New Jersey, Barney Frank made two vital discoveries about himself: he was attracted to government, and to men. He resolved to make a career out of the first and to keep the sec…	OL17102722W
Joe Biden	Jules Witcover	In the first definitive biography of Vice President Joe Biden, journalist Jules Witcover examines the life of a man who, with his tenacity, outspokenness, and charming smile, has shaped Washington po…	OL17676692W
Dispatches from the eastern front	Gerald Felix Warburg	How does one arrive at a life in politics and policy? What happens to one's ideals when confronted with the reality that the only way to get things done in Washington is compromise? Who are the men a…	OL17714678W
The unfinished journey	William Henry Chafe	Considering both the paradoxes and the possibilities of postwar America, William H. Chafe portrays the significant cultural and political themes that have colored our country's past and present, incl…	OL1912830W
The gifted generation	David R. Goldfield	A history of the post-World War II decades traces the efforts of an activist federal government to guide the U.S. toward a realization of the American Dream, exploring the era's unprecedented economi…	OL19726216W
Underdog politics	Matthew N. Green	"In the first comprehensive study of the subject in decades, political scholar Matthew Green disputes the conventional belief that the minority party in the U.S. House of Representatives is an unimpo…	OL19998440W
The life and times of George McGovern	Thomas J. Knock	The biography of the 1972 Democratic presidential candidate who became America's most eloquent and prescient critic of the Vietnam War. In this masterful book, Thomas Knock traces George McGovern's l…	OL20023338W
Who stole the American dream?	Hedrick Smith	Recounts how the American dream has been dismantled over the past forty years by legislative, electoral, and corporate decisions that have compromised the middle class and minimized individual econom…	OL26169456W
Leave us alone	Grover Glenn Norquist	One of the nation's most influential political strategists provides a daring manifesto and vision for conservatives.The modern Republican party is a coalition of groups and tendencies created during …	OL2990130W
Class and Party in American Politics (Transforming American Politics)	Jeffrey M. Stonecash	"This single volume work examines whether class political divisions have increased or decreased over time in America. Most studies have concluded that class differences have declined, and that Democr…	OL3512093W
Henry B. Gonzalez	Brenda Haugen	A biography profiling the life of Henry B. Gonzalez, the Texas and United States politician who became a voice for the poor and downtrodden. Includes source notes and timeline.	OL5717400W
Presidential power	Richard E. Neustadt	The politics of leadership from FDR to Carter.	OL82670W