By Bob Woodward

EPUB eISBN: 978-0-6848-6922-3
Original ebook: 1999
Electronic booklet (with paperback): 2005

Twenty-five years in the past, after Richard Nixon resigned the presidency, Gerald Ford promised a go back to normalcy. "My fellow americans, our lengthy nationwide nightmare is over," President Ford declared.

however it was once no longer. The Watergate scandal, and the treatments opposed to destiny abuses of energy, may have an everlasting influence on presidents and the rustic. In Shadow, Bob Woodward takes us deep into the administrations of Ford, Carter, Reagan, Bush and Clinton to explain how every one chanced on that the presidency used to be endlessly altered. With targeted emphasis at the human toll, Woodward indicates the results of the recent ethics legislation, and the emboldened Congress and media. strong investigations more and more stripped away the privateness and protections as soon as anticipated by way of the nation's leader executive.

utilizing presidential records, diaries, prosecutorial documents and hundreds of thousands of interviews with firsthand witnesses, Woodward chronicles how all 5 males failed first to appreciate after which to control the inquisitorial environment.

"The temper used to be mean," Gerald Ford says. Woodward explains how Ford believed he were provided a deal to pardon Nixon, then clumsily rejected it and later withheld all of the info from Congress and the general public, leaving lasting suspicions that compromised his years within the White House.

Jimmy Carter used Watergate to win an election, after which watched in bewilderment because the ideas of strict responsibility engulfed his finances director, Bert Lance, and challenged his personal credibility. From his public pronouncements to the Iranian hostage predicament, Carter by no means chanced on the decisive, therapeutic type of management the 1st elected post-Watergate president had promised.

Woodward additionally presents the 1st behind-the-scenes account of ways President Reagan and a distinct crew of greater than 60 lawyers and archivists beat Iran-contra. They grew to become the Reagan White residence and usa intelligence organizations the other way up investigating the president with orders to reveal any incriminating info they discovered. A clean portrait of an engaged Reagan emerges as he realizes his presidency is in danger and makes an attempt to end up his innocence.

In Shadow, a sour and disoriented President Bush commonly pours out his anger on the everlasting scandal tradition to his own diary as a dozen investigations contact a few of these closest to him. At one aspect, Bush kilos a plastic mallet on his Oval workplace table as a result of the carrying on with research of Iran-contra self sufficient assistance Lawrence Walsh. "Take that, Walsh!" he shouts. "I'd prefer to put off this guy." Woodward additionally finds why Bush shunned telling one of many ultimate secrets and techniques of the Gulf War.

the second one half Shadow specializes in President Clinton's scandals. Woodward exhibits how and why autonomous information Kenneth Starr's research grew to become a country of everlasting warfare with the Clintons. He unearths who Clinton rather feared within the Paula Jones case, and the behind-the-scenes maneuvering and ruthless, cynical criminal suggestions to guard the Clintons. Shadow additionally describes how impeachment affected Clinton's battle judgements and scarred his existence, his marriage and his presidency. "How am i able to pass on?" First woman Hillary Clinton requested in 1996, while she used to be below scrutiny through Starr and the media, years ahead of the Lewinsky scandal broke. "How can I?"

Shadow is an authoritative, unsettling narrative of the fashionable, beleaguered presidency.

About the Author-
Bob Woodward is an affiliate editor on the Washington put up, the place he has labored for 41 years. He has shared in Pulitzer Prizes, first for The Washington Post's assurance of the Watergate scandal, and later for insurance of the Sept. 11 terrorist assaults. He has authored or coauthored twelve number one nationwide nonfiction bestsellers. He has daughters, Tali and Diana, and lives in Washington, DC, together with his spouse, author Elsa Walsh.

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By Jeremy Brecher

No booklet has performed up to Strike! to deliver U.S. hard work background to a large viewers. Strike! narrates the fascinating hidden heritage of the U.S. hard work stream from the viewpoint of the rank-and-file employees who lived it. "An intriguing historical past of yank labor....Brings to lifestyles the flashpoints of work history....Scholarly, really stirring."--The ny Times

By Eric Schlosser

Publish yr note: First released in 2001. Afterword, 2012
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"Schlosser has an inherent ability for mind-blowing scene-setting and an arsenal of startling evidence . . . quickly nutrients country issues the best way yet, to resurrect an previous quickly foodstuff slogan, the alternative is yours."—Los Angeles Times

In 2001, Fast nutrients Nation was once released to severe acclaim and have become a global bestseller. Eric Schlosser's exposé printed how the short foodstuff has altered the panorama of the United States, widened the distance among wealthy and terrible, fueled an outbreak of weight problems, and remodeled meals creation in the course of the international. The e-book replaced the best way thousands of individuals take into consideration what they devour and helped to release today's nutrition movement.

In a new afterword for this edition, Schlosser discusses the turning out to be curiosity in neighborhood and natural nutrients, the ongoing exploitation of terrible employees through the nutrients undefined, and the necessity to make sure that each American has entry to reliable, fit, reasonable nutrients. quick foodstuff country is as suitable at the present time because it was once a decade in the past. The publication evokes readers to appear underneath the skin of our foodstuff procedure, reflect on its impression on society and, such a lot of all, imagine for themselves.

Literary Awards
Puddly Award for Nonfiction (2003)

By David Montgomery

A set of essays on workers' efforts within the nineteenth and twentieth centuries to say regulate over the methods of construction in US. It describes the improvement of administration options and comprises discussions of assorted employee and union responses to unemployment.

By Gordon S. Wood

The Oxford background of the U.S. is through some distance the main revered multi-volume historical past of our state. The sequence comprises 3 Pulitzer Prize winners, New York Times bestsellers, and winners of the Bancroft and Parkman Prizes. Now, within the most recent quantity within the sequence, one among America's such a lot esteemed historians, Gordon S. wooden, deals an excellent account of the early American Republic, starting from 1789 and the start of the nationwide govt to the top of the struggle of 1812.

As wooden unearths, the interval was once marked by means of tumultuous swap in all elements of yankee life--in politics, society, economic system, and tradition. the boys who based the hot govt had excessive hopes for the long run, yet few in their hopes and goals labored out rather as they anticipated. They hated political events yet events still emerged. a few sought after the U.S. to turn into a very good fiscal-military kingdom like these of england and France; others sought after the rustic to stay a rural agricultural country very diverse from the eu states. in its place, via 1815 the us grew to become anything neither crew expected. Many leaders anticipated American tradition to flourish and surpass that of Europe; as an alternative it turned popularized and vulgarized. The leaders additionally desire to work out the tip of slavery; in its place, regardless of the discharge of many slaves and the top of slavery within the North, slavery was once more desirable in 1815 than it were in 1789. Many desired to steer clear of entanglements with Europe, yet in its place the rustic turned taken with Europe's wars and ended up waging one other warfare with the previous mom nation. nonetheless, with a brand new new release rising through 1815, so much american citizens have been convinced and confident concerning the way forward for their kingdom.

Named a New York Times extraordinary ebook, Empire of Liberty bargains a fabulous account of this pivotal period whilst the United States took its first unsteady steps as a brand new and quickly increasing kingdom.

By Evan Thomas

“What used to be it quite prefer to be Richard Nixon? Evan Thomas tackles this attention-grabbing query by means of peeling again the layers of a guy pushed through a poignant mixture of optimism and worry. the result's either insightful heritage and an astonishingly compelling mental portrait.”[b]—Walter Isaacson, writer of Steve Jobs
Evan Thomas can provide the easiest single-volume biography of Richard Nixon thus far, a thorough, detailed portrait of a classy determine who was once either determinedly confident and tragically improper. the recent York occasions bestselling writer of Ike’s Bluff and Sea of Thunder, Thomas brings new lifestyles to at least one of yank history’s so much notorious, paradoxical, and enigmatic politicians, allotting with myths to accomplish an intimate and evenhanded examine the particular man.
 
What drove a painfully shy outcast in elite Washington society—a guy so self-conscious he refused to make eye touch in the course of meetings—to pursue strength and public place of work? How did a president so attuned to the yank political identity that he received reelection in a old landslide lack the self-awareness to acknowledge the gaping personality flaws that may force him from place of work and without end taint his legacy?
 
In Being Nixon, Evan Thomas peels away the layers of the complicated, confounding determine who turned America’s thirty-seventh president. The son of religious Quakers, Richard Nixon (not in contrast to his rival John F. Kennedy) grew up within the shadow of an older, favorite brother and thrived on clash and competition. via highschool and faculty, within the army and in politics, he was once always top crusades and struggling with off enemies genuine and imagined. As maudlin as he used to be Machiavellian, Nixon possessed the plainspoken eloquence to minimize American tv audiences to tears together with his career-saving “Checkers” speech; in the meantime, his darker part hatched schemes designed to take down his political foes, incomes him the infamous nickname “Tricky Dick.”
 
Drawing on a variety of historic bills, Thomas finds the contradictions of a pacesetter whose imaginative and prescient and foresight led him to accomplish détente with the Soviet Union and reestablish family members with communist China, yet whose underhanded political strategies tainted his popularity lengthy prior to the Watergate scandal. one of many relevant architects of the trendy Republican social gathering and its “silent majority” of disaffected whites and conservative ex-Dixiecrats, Nixon used to be additionally deemed a liberal in a few quarters for his efforts to desegregate Southern faculties, create the Environmental security company, and finish the draft.
 
A deeply insightful personality research in addition to a super political biography, Being Nixon deals a stunning examine a guy able to nice bravery and remarkable deviousness—a balanced portrait of a president too usually diminished to caricature.
 
Praise for Being Nixon
 
“Here in a single sharp and swiftly written quantity is what you actually need to grasp in regards to the nice and terrible thirty-seventh President: How may perhaps a person so clever concerning the international be so completely clueless approximately himself?”—Time

“[A] absolutely rounded portrait . . . Thomas has an excellent eye for the telling quote and the humorous vignette, and his kind is eminently readable.”—The big apple occasions booklet Review
 
“Terrifically enticing . . . should be learn by means of someone with a extra open brain concerning the oddest guy ever to occupy the Oval Office.”—Max Boot, The Wall road Journal

“Ambitious . . . There are well-crafted word-pictures of Nixon in the course of the narrative.”—Carl Bernstein, The Washington Post

By George E. Lewis

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Founded in 1965 and nonetheless lively this present day, the organization for the development of inventive Musicians (AACM) is an American establishment with a world recognition. George E. Lewis, who joined the collective as in 1971, establishes the complete significance and energy of the AACM with this communal historical past, written with a symphonic sweep that pulls on a cross-generational refrain of voices and a wealthy number of infrequent images.

Moving from Chicago to big apple to Paris, and from founding member Steve McCall’s kitchen desk to Carnegie corridor, A strength greater Than Itself uncovers a colourful, multicultural universe and brings to gentle a big piece of the historical past of avant-garde track and art.

By Farley Mowat

The Farfarers: sooner than the Norse (2000) is a publication via Farley Mowat that units out a idea approximately pre-Columbian trans-oceanic touch. Mowat's thesis is that even sooner than the Vikings, North the US used to be chanced on and settled through Europeans originating from Orkney who reached Canada after a generation-spanning migration that used Iceland and Greenland as 'stepping stones'. Mowat's principles are arguable and feature been accused of being over-speculative. The publication has been released within the united kingdom because the Alban Quest.

By Sheldon S. Wolin

Democracy is suffering in America--by now this assertion is sort of cliché. yet what if the rustic is not any longer a democracy in any respect? In Democracy Incorporated, Sheldon Wolin considers the unthinkable: has the US unwittingly morphed right into a new and unusual type of political hybrid, one the place financial and kingdom powers are conjoined and almost unbridled? Can the kingdom payment its descent into what the writer phrases "inverted totalitarianism"?

Wolin portrays a rustic the place voters are politically fed up and submissive--and the place elites are desirous to continue them that means. At most sensible the state has turn into a "managed democracy" the place the general public is shepherded, no longer sovereign. At worst it's a position the place company energy not solutions to nation controls. Wolin makes transparent that today's the USA is not at all morally or politically resembling totalitarian states like Nazi Germany, but he warns that unchecked monetary energy dangers verging on overall energy and has its personal unnerving pathologies. Wolin examines the myths and mythmaking that justify today's politics, the search for an ever-expanding economic climate, and the perverse sights of an unending battle on terror. He argues passionately that democracy's top wish lies in electorate themselves studying anew to workout strength on the neighborhood level.

Democracy Incorporated is likely one of the so much caring diagnoses of America's political ills to emerge in a long time. it's guaranteed to be a lightning rod for political debate for years to come.

In a brand new preface, Wolin describes how the Obama management, regardless of grants of switch, has left the underlying dynamics of controlled democracy intact.