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The complete American presidential inaugural addressesfeaturing historical background by a National Book Awardwinner A testament to the power of oratory, this stirring and oftensurprising collection includes all fifty-five United Statespresidential inaugural addresses, as well as a general introductionand commentary that provides historical context for each speech.Marking pivotal moments in American history, readers willlearn: ? How George Washington came to ad-lib “So help me, God” at theend of his first inaugural address ? Why Thomas Jefferson’s first inaugural address is consideredone of the finest ever delivered ? The historical background behind Franklin D. Roosevelt’s “Theonly thing we have to fear is fear itself” and John F. Kennedy’s “Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what youcan do for your country.”

From the woman who has reported on every president from Kennedy to Clinton comes a privileged glimpse into the White House -- and a telling record of the ever-changing relationship between the presidency and the press. Helen Thomas wanted to be a reporter from her earliest years. She turned a copy-aide job at the Washington Daily News into a powerful and successful career spanning thirty-seven years and eight U.S. presidents. Assigned to the White House press corps in 1961. Thomas was the first woman to close a press conference with "Thank you. Mr. President." She was also the first female president of the White House Correspondents Association and the first woman member, later president, of the Gridiron Club. In this revealing memoir, which includes hundreds of anecdotes, observations, and personal details. Thomas looks back on a career spent with presidents at home and abroad, on the ground and in the air. Providing a unique view of the past four decades of presidential history. Front Row at the W

In The Social Contract Rousseau (1712-1778) argues for the preservation of individual freedom in political society. An individual can only be free under the law, he says, by voluntarily embracing that law as his own. Hence, being free in society requires each of us to subjugate our desires to the interests of all, the general will.

Jefferson Davis is one of the most complex and controversialfigures in American political history (and the man whom Oscar Wildewanted to meet more than anyone when he made his tour of the UnitedStates). Elected president of the Confederacy and later accused ofparticipating in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, he is asource of ongoing dissension between northerners and southerners.This volume, the first of its kind, is a selected collection of hiswritings culled in large part from the authoritative Papers ofJefferson Davis , a multivolume edition of his letters andspeeches published by the Louisiana State University Press, andincludes thirteen documents from manu* collections and oneprivately held document that have never before appeared in a modernscholarly edition. From letters as a college student to his sister,to major speeches on the Constitution, slavery, and sectionalissues, to his farewell to the U.S. Senate, to his inauguraladdress as Confederate president, to letters from prison to hiswif

In this amazing and at times ribald story, Laton McCartneytells how Big Oil handpicked Warren G. Harding, an obscure Ohiosenator, to serve as our twenty-third president. Harding and his“oil cabinet” made it possible for cronies to secure vast fuelreserves that had been set aside for use by the U.S. Navy. Inexchange, the oilmen paid off senior government officials, bribednewspaper publishers, and covered the GOP campaign debt. When newsof the scandal finally emerged, the consequences were disastrous.Drawing on contemporary records newly made available to McCartney,The Teapot Dome Scandal reveals a shocking, revelatory picture ofjust how far-reaching the affair was, how high the stakes, and howpowerful the conspirators–all told in a dazzling narrativestyle.

No public figure in contemporary life has elicited more polarized reactions than Hillary Rodhan Clinton.The first presidential spouse who pursued a major policy-making role,the belea-guered first lady has been a heroine and role model to her feminist allies—and,to her conservative foes,a malevolent ,power-mad shrew.Is she Bill Clinton's greatest asset,or his greatest liability? Now David Brock ,America's most controver-sial journalist,has taken on the most controversial first lady in history,producing a boldly incisive yet surprisingly sensitive portrait.The Hillary Rodham who emerges from these pages is not just a fasci-nating and unofficial leader of an activist lib-eral cohortthat was born in the social and civil unrest of the1960s and has risen tothe highest lev-els of Americna goernment .A political biography of the highet order,the Seducion of Hillary Rodham is the story of one strong-willed wonan's struggle tomaintain her personal and political intergrity in the face ofpowerfuly seductive forces

GOVERNOR HOWARD DEAN'S GRASSROOTS BID FOR THE PRESIDENCY IS GENERATING EXCITEMENT IN EVERY CORNER OF AMERICA. In Winning Back America, Governor Dean writes for the first time about his life and the people and events that have shaped him, beginning with his upbringing in New York and taking us through his medical career, eleven and a half years as governor of Vermont, and finally into his presidential campaign. Howard Dean writes about: The years at college that changed the way he looks at America His decision to attend medical school and the origins of his commitment to children and to universal health care Meeting his wife, Judith Steinberg, and bringing up a family in Vermont One dramatic day that he began as an internist and ended as governor The successes of his governorship His decision to run for president of the United States His vision for the country Winning Back America is Howard Dean in his own words. Dean tells h

“Saudi Arabia is more and more an irrational state—a place thatspawns global terrorism even as it succumbs to an ancient anddeeply seated isolationism, a kingdom led by a royal family thatcan’t get out of the way of its own greed. Is this the fulcrum wewant the global economy to balance on?” In his explosive New York Times bestseller, See No Evil ,former CIA operative Robert Baer exposed how Washington politicsdrastically compromised the CIA’s efforts to fight globalterrorism. Now in his powerful new book, Sleeping with the Devil,Baer turns his attention to Saudi Arabia, revealing how ourgovernment’s cynical relationship with our Middle Eastern ally andAmerica’ s dependence on Saudi oil make us increasingly vulnerableto economic disaster and put us at risk for further acts ofterrorism. For decades, the United States and Saudi Arabia have been locked ina “harmony of interests.” America counted on the Saudis for cheapoil, political stability in the Middle East, and lucrative businessrelati

Perhaps the best-known American diplomatist og the twentidth century .Henry Kissinger is a major figure in world history. winner of the Nobel Peace Prize,and arguably one of the most brilliant minds ver placed at the service og American foreign policy .as well as ine of the shrewdest ,best -informed,and most articulate men ever to occupy a position of power in Washington. The eagerly awaited third and final volume of his memoirs completes a mljor work of comtemporary history .It is at ince an important historical document and a brilliantly gold narrative of almost Shadespearean intensity,full of startling insights,umusual (and often unsparing)candor,and a sweeping sense of history.Years of Renewal is the triumphant comclusion of a major achievenent and a book that will stand the test of time as a histori-cal document of the first rank. 作者简介: HENRY A.KISSNGER was the fifty-sixth Secretary of State. Born in Ger-many,Dr.Kissinger camme to the United States in 1983 and was naturalizde Unitded atate

If the Watergate scandal was a previous generation'sNational Nightmare, then maybe the Clinton scandal was our NationalWet Dream, and who better to narrate it than the screenwriter JoeEszterhas? In American Rhapsody , Eszterhas, whosecredits include Basic Instinct and Showgirls, and Charlie Simpson's Apocalypse, for which he was nominated fora National Book Award, takes us through the events that threatenedto topple a president and left most of the nation's citizens with,at the very least, a bad taste in their mouths. Taking full advantage of his considerablejournalistic and storytelling talents, Eszterhas gives us everyfact, rumor, or innuendo surrounding the president's foibles in thecontext of late century American politics and entertainment. Here Washington and Hollywood do more than just flirt with eachother; they share the same bed. From scandalmongers MattDrudge (who began as a Hollywood gossip) and Ken Starr, to would-bepresident paramours Sharon Stone and Barbra Streisand, to hisfinal,