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  • Effective Presidency

    Lessons on Leadership from John F. Kennedy to Barack Obama

    by Erwin C. Hargrove ...
    The second edition of this classic work adds a new chapter on Barack Obama and updates coverage of the end of the George W. Bush administration. Presidential scholar Erwin C. Hargrove extends his analytical framework of presidential effectiveness to show how Obama combines eventful leadership with pragmatism to move the nation forward in an intensely polarized partisan environment.Features of the ... Read more

    $101.68 CAD

  • Prisoners of Myth

    The Leadership of the Tennessee Valley Authority, 1933-1990

    by Erwin C. Hargrove ...
    Series series Princeton Studies in American Politics
    Prisoners of Myth is the first comprehensive history of the Tennessee Valley Authority from its creation to the present day. It is also a telling case study of organizational evolution and decline. Building on Philip Selznick's classic work TVA and the Grass Roots (1949), a seminal text in the theoretical study of bureaucracy, Erwin Hargrove analyzes the organizational culture of the TVA by ... Read more

    $76.99 CAD

  • The President And The Council Of Economic Advisors

    Interviews With Cea Chairmen

    by Erwin C Hargrove, Samuel A Morley ...
    Interviews with ten former chairmen of the Council of Economic Advisers--from the Truman to the Carter administrations--are gathered in this book to examine the relationship between economic advisers and the president and the institutional relationships among the CEA, executive departments, and federal financial agencies. The interviews also reconstruct major presidential decisions since the ... Read more

    $63.20 CAD

  • A Professor's Journey

    by Erwin Hargrove ...
    Mark Twain wrote that one of his books was “mostly true.” That is so with this book of sketches from the life of Erwin Hargrove, professor of political science. This is a lightly rendered memoir of his academic career at Brown and Vanderbilt Universities from 1960 to 2000. Though some of the details have been enhanced, this book is an accurate account of Dr. Hargove’s experience rising through the ... Read more

    $3.99 CAD

  • "Only Connect"

    A Book of Stories

    by Erwin Hargrove ...
    EM Forster wrote in Howards End about two families that were very different. One family lived for the outer world and the other family cultivated the inner life. The book is about their efforts to combine the two approaches to life. Forster summed this up with a phrase that has been quoted over and over.“ Only connect the prose and the passion.” This book of stories is about people who are trying ... Read more

    $3.99 CAD

  • American Journeys

    Stories of Three Lives

    by Erwin Hargrove ...
    This is a story of three men and their lives from 1930 to 2000. They are respectively a psychiatrist, a historian, and a journalist. They work respectively at Cornell Medical School, Brown University, and the Baltimore Sun. They pursue their professions in times of major insitutional changes. Their five wives also tell their stories. This is, in part, a story of a generation. ... Read more

    $8.69 CAD

  • The Politician

    by Erwin Hargrove ...
    Politics comes naturally to John Page, and doors keep opening in his career. The call seems to be clear. But there are choices to be made. How far will he go? And how long will he follow the call? ... Read more

    $6.29 CAD

  • Love Stories

    by Erwin Hargrove ...
    Four short stories and one novella about the mystery we call "romance:" - A Remembrance - A Chance Encounter - Amor Francaise - A Surprise Letter - Love Across the Sea. Stories of the heart perfect for Valentine's Day or anytime to celebrate love's longings. ... Read more

    $6.29 CAD

  • Danger in Paris

    A Mystery

    by Erwin Hargrove ...
    In 1988, Vanderbilt University professor John Page and his wife, Julie, move to Paris to accept a one-year teaching appointment. He decides to take advantage of his European location and do some research into his mothers life in Paris in the 1920s.He meets an old friend of his mothers, who refers him to some of their French circle. Excited to find so many good clues into an enduring family mystery ... Read more

    $5.39 CAD

  • Impossible Jobs in Public Management

    Edited by Erwin C. Hargrove, John C. Glidewell ...
    Series series Studies in Government and Public Policy
    If you think your job is hopelessly difficult, you may be right. Particularly if your job is public administration.Those who study or practice public management know full well the difficulties faced by administrators of complex bureaucratic systems. What they don’t know is why some jobs in the public sector are harder than others and how good managers cope with those jobs.Drawing on leadership ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

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    Presidents and Foreign Policy from FDR to Trump

    by Joseph S. Nye, Jr. ...
    A concise yet penetrating analysis of how modern American presidents have--and have not--incorporated ethics into their foreign policy. Americans constantly make moral judgments about presidents and foreign policy. Unfortunately, many of these assessments are poorly thought through. In Do Morals Matter?, Joseph S. Nye, Jr. provides a concise yet penetrating analysis of the role of ethics in US ... Read more

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  • Goliath

    The 100-Year War Between Monopoly Power and Democracy

    by Matt Stoller ...
    Series series Must-Read American History
    “Every thinking American must read” (The Washington Book Review) this startling and “insightful” (The New York Times) look at how concentrated financial power and consumerism has transformed American politics, and business.Going back to our country’s founding, Americans once had a coherent and clear understanding of political tyranny, one crafted by Thomas Jefferson and updated for the industrial ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

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