المؤلفون: Carty, Thomas (Thomas Joseph)

مصطلحات موضوعية: Women ambassadors -- United States -- Biography., Ambassadors -- United States -- Biography., Women politicians -- United States -- Biography., Politicians -- United States -- Biography.

Subject Person: Whittlesey, Faith Ryan.

جغرافية الموضوع: United States -- Politics and government -- 1981-1989., United States -- History -- 1969-

الوصف: "Ginger Rogers did everything that Fred Astaire did," so the saying goes, "but she did it backwards and in high heels." Faith Whittlesey popularized this quotation during the 1980s, and many books attribute the line to her. The message clearly resonated with a generation of American men and women coming to age in the late 20th century, when all things seemed possible. In this book Faith Whittlesey gives concrete meaning to the quotation through her life and career as an effective "Madam Ambassador" in the worlds of both money and politics. Raised in western New York State by highly motivated Irish-American parents of limited means, she worked to reach an eminent position as Ronald Reagan's Ambassador to Switzerland (twice), and to serve as the highest-ranking woman on Reagan's White House staff from 1983-1985.
There she occupied the West Wing office soon to be Hillary Clinton's, and as a widow (since 1974) with three children provided a female influence of her own to a presidential culture well before it was fashionable. In addition to her activities in U.S. policy and politics, for more than 30 years Whittlesey has proven to be one of the most important liaisons between the United States and Switzerland, a sister republic as well as financial superpower. Whether operating from her second floor office in the White House's West Wing or the bucolic Ambassador's residence in Bern, Switzerland, Whittlesey made a practice to advocate Reagan's policies through thoughtful debate and persuasive argumentation.
After leaving government service, she practiced private-sector diplomacy, serving from 1989 as Chairman and then Emeritus of the American Swiss Foundation, which endeavors to promote understanding between the two nations, organizing several private high-level delegations to visit China, and participating, both publicly and also at times "behind the scenes," in discussion of the most significant public policy issues of recent decades. This book provides a fascinating look into how one woman, despite daunting obstacles, was able to achieve exceptional influence, thence use her position for the furtherance of common good.

المؤلفون: Walsch, Neale Donald.

مصطلحات موضوعية: Women politicians -- United States -- Biography., Politicians -- United States -- Biography., Futurologists -- United States -- Biography., Prophets -- United States -- Biography., Biography.

Subject Person: Hubbard, Barbara Marx, 1929-

جغرافية الموضوع: United States -- Biography.

الوصف: A biography of politician Barbara Marx Hubbard.

المؤلفون: Boys, James D., author.

مصطلحات موضوعية: Women politicians -- United States -- Biography., Presidents -- United States -- Election -- 2016., Presidential candidates -- United States., Biography., Biographies.

Subject Person: Clinton, Hillary Rodham.

الوصف: On 12 April 2015, Hillary Clinton formally announced her intention to run for President in 2016, casting herself as the 'champion of everyday Americans'. With near-universal name recognition and the promise to make history as the first female occupant of the Oval Office, all seems set for Hillary to secure the one role that has eluded her to date, but what drives this most intriguing and polarising of political figures? Will she be able to shake off her past mistakes and finally secure the Democratic Party's nomination? What are her chances of winning the White House? And, perhaps more importantly, what kind of President would she make? Drawing on original interviews with close associates of both Bill and Hillary, as well as a wealth of recently declassified materials from the Clinton archive, James D. Boys offers a clearsighted, non-partisan analysis of Hillar/s rise to the pinnacle of American power, revealing the political ideology and core principles that have remained a constant throughout.

المؤلفون: Huys, Twan, 1964- author.

مصطلحات موضوعية: Presidents -- United States -- Biography., Presidents' spouses -- United States -- Biography., Women politicians -- United States -- Biography., Women presidential candidates -- United States -- Biography.

Subject Person: Clinton, Bill, 1946-, Clinton, Hillary Rodham.

المؤلفون: Hess, Stephen, author.

مصطلحات موضوعية: Politicians -- Family relationships -- United States., Politicians -- United States -- Biography., Politicians., Politicians -- Family relationships., Politics and government., Biography.

جغرافية الموضوع: United States -- Biography., United States -- Politics and government., United States.

المؤلفون: Ellis, Joseph J.

مصطلحات موضوعية: HISTORY / United States / Revolutionary Period (1775-1800), Statesmen -- United States -- Biography., Politicians -- United States -- Biography., Confederation of states -- United States -- History -- 18th century., Federal government -- United States -- History -- 18th century., Constitutional history -- United States., HISTORY / United States / General., HISTORY / Revolutionary., Confederation of states., Constitutional history., Federal government., Politicians., Politics and government., Statesmen., Biographies., Biography., History.

جغرافية الموضوع: United States -- Politics and government -- 1783-1789., United States.

Time: 1700 - 1799

الوصف: "The prizewinning author of Founding Brothers and American Sphinx now gives us the unexpected story--brilliantly told--of why the thirteen colonies, having just fought off the imposition of a distant centralized governing power, would decide to subordinate themselves anew. The triumph of the American Revolution was neither an ideological nor political guarantee that the colonies would relinquish their independence and accept the creation of a federal government with power over their individual autonomy. The Quartet is the story of this second American founding and of the men responsible--some familiar, such as George Washington, Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, and James Madison, and some less so, such as Robert Morris and Gouverneur Morris. It was these men who shaped the contours of American history by diagnosing the systemic dysfunctions created by the Articles of Confederation, manipulating the political process to force a calling of the Constitutional Convention, conspiring to set the agenda in Philadelphia, orchestrating the debate in the state ratifying conventions, and, finally, drafting the Bill of Rights to assure state compliance with the constitutional settlement"--

المؤلفون: Kittelstrom, Amy, author.

مصطلحات موضوعية: Politicians -- United States -- Biography., Intellectuals -- United States -- Biography., Christians -- United States -- Biography., Liberalism -- United States -- History., Democracy -- United States -- History., Christianity and politics -- United States -- History., HISTORY / United States / 19th Century., HISTORY / United States / General., RELIGION / History., Christianity and politics., Christians., Democracy., Intellectual life., Intellectuals., Liberalism., Moral conditions., Politicians., Politics and government., Religion., Biography., History.

Subject Person: Adams, John, 1735-1826., Emerson, Mary Moody, 1774-1863., Channing, William Ellery, 1780-1842., James, William, 1842-1910., Davidson, Thomas, 1840-1900., Salter, William Mackintire, 1853-1931., Addams, Jane, 1860-1935.

جغرافية الموضوع: United States -- Politics and government., United States -- Intellectual life., United States -- Religion., United States -- Moral conditions., United States.

الوصف: "A history of religion's role in the American liberal tradition through the eyes of seven transformative thinkers. Today we associate liberal thought and politics with secularism. When we argue over whether the nation's founders meant to keep religion out of politics, the godless side is said to be liberal. But the role of religion in American politics has always been far more nuanced and complex than today's debates would suggest and closer to the heart of American intellectual life than is commonly understood. American democracy was intended by its creators to be more than just a political system, and in The Religion of Democracy, historian Amy Kittelstrom shows how religion and democracy have worked together as universal ideals in American culture--and as guides to moral action and the social practice of treating one another as equals who deserve to be free.
The first people in the world to call themselves 'liberals' were New England Christians in the early republic, for whom being liberal meant being receptive to a range of beliefs and values. The story begins in the mid-eighteenth century, when the first Boston liberals brought the Enlightenment into Reformation Christianity, tying equality and liberty to the human soul at the same moment these root concepts were being tied to democracy. The nineteenth century saw the development of a robust liberal intellectual culture in America, built on open-minded pursuit of truth and acceptance of human diversity. By the twentieth century, what had begun in Boston as a narrow, patrician democracy transformed into a religion of democracy in which the new liberals of modern America believed that where different viewpoints overlap, common truth is revealed. The core American principles of liberty and equality were never free from religion but full of religion.
The Religion of Democracy re-creates the liberal conversation from the eighteenth century to the twentieth by tracing the lived connections among seven thinkers through whom they knew, what they read and wrote, where they went, and how they expressed their opinions--from John Adams to William James to Jane Addams; from Boston to Chicago to Berkeley. Sweeping and ambitious, The Religion of Democracy is a lively narrative of quintessentially American ideas as they were forged, debated, and remade across our history"--

المؤلفون: Clemenceau, François.

مصطلحات موضوعية: Presidents' spouses -- United States -- Biography., Women presidential candidates -- United States., Women legislators -- United States., Women politicians -- United States -- Biography., Cabinet officers -- United States -- Biography.

Subject Person: Clinton, Hillary Rodham., Clinton, Hillary Rodham -- Career in politics.

جغرافية الموضوع: United States -- Politics and government -- 1993-2001., United States -- Politics and government -- 21st century.

المؤلفون: Leibovich, Mark.

مصطلحات موضوعية: Politicians -- United States -- Biography., Political culture -- United States., Political psychology -- United States., Elite (Social sciences) -- Washington (D.C.), Political culture -- Washington (D.C.), Political psychology -- Washington (D.C.), POLITICAL SCIENCE / Government / General., POLITICAL SCIENCE / Essays., Biography.

جغرافية الموضوع: United States -- Politics and government -- 2001-2009., United States -- Politics and government -- 2009-2017., Washington (D.C.) -- Social life and customs., Washington (D.C.) -- Social conditions.

الوصف: "A collection of political profiles and other reportage by Mark Leibovich, the author of This Town"--
"Author of the groundbreaking #1 New York Times bestseller This Town, Mark Leibovich returns with a masterly collection of portraits of Washington's elite, and wannabe elites. Hailed by The Washington Post as a 'master of the political profile,' Leibovich has spent his career writing memorable, buzz-worthy, and often jaw-dropping features about politicians and other notables. Currently chief national correspondent for The New York Times Magazine, Leibovich punctures the inflated personas of the powerful, and in Citizens of the Green Room, he reveals the lives, stories, and peculiarities behind the public masks. A brilliant reporter with a talent for subversive, engaging storytelling, Leibovich maintains a refreshing conviviality with many of his subjects even as he renders incisive and unflinching assessments. His features have driven the national conversation while exposing the fallibilities of the kingmakers and media stars: consider his 2007 profile of Hillary Clinton, which unearthed a treasure trove of old letters that the then senator had written as a vulnerable young college student; or his much-talked-about 2010 portrait of Glenn Beck, which laid bare the tortured soul and precarious standing of the once invincible host and his uneasy relationship with his soon-to-be ex-employer FOX News. In the political arena, Leibovich's portraits of John Kerry, Paul Ryan, Chris Christie, and John McCain are already classics; they invariably remind us that great journalism and stylish writing are not only essential to the Republic but necessary to maintain the citizenry's sanity and humor in the face of made-for-TV government"--

المؤلفون: Smith, Richard Norton, 1953-

مصطلحات موضوعية: Politicians -- United States -- Biography., Philanthropists -- United States -- Biography., Businessmen -- United States -- Biography., Biography.

Subject Person: Rockefeller, Nelson A. (Nelson Aldrich), 1908-1979.

الوصف: The definitive life of one of the most complex and compelling figures of the twentieth century, this biography draws on thousands of newly available documents and interviews, including Rockefeller's own unpublished reminiscences. Grandson of oil magnate John D. Rockefeller, Nelson coveted the White House from childhood. Before he was thirty he had helped his father develop Rockefeller Center and his mother establish the Museum of Modern Art. At 32 he was Franklin Roosevelt's wartime coordinator for Latin America. As New York's four-term governor he set national standards in education, the environment, and urban policy. The charismatic face of liberal Republicanism, Rockefeller championed civil rights and health insurance for all. Three times he sought the presidency--arguably in the wrong party. At the Republican National Convention in San Francisco in 1964, locked in an epic battle with Barry Goldwater, Rockefeller denounced extremist elements in the GOP, a moment that changed the party forever. But he could not wrest the nomination from the Arizona conservative, or from Richard Nixon four years later. In the end, he had to settle for two dispiriting years as vice president under Gerald Ford. Here, historian Richard Norton Smith re-creates Rockefeller's improbable rise to the governor's mansion, his politically disastrous divorce and remarriage, and his often surprising relationships with presidents and political leaders from FDR to Henry Kissinger. From the deadly 1971 prison uprising at Attica and unceasing battles with New York City mayor John Lindsay to his son's unsolved disappearance, the punitive drug laws that bear his name, and the much-gossiped-about circumstances of his death, Nelson Rockefeller's was a life of astonishing color, range, and relevance.--From publisher description.