Clinton Books

An excellent book, easy to read, important points appropriately high-lighted, pictures with clear anatomy. Extremely helpful for someone interested in Asian eyelids as well as those who are new in this field.

This book goes far beyond standard travel guidebooks. It provides subjective, yet accurate, ratings of condos in key island vacation spots. I have used the ratings to plan my condo vacations and have found the info to be very accurate. Hoever, it is getting dated. I anxiously await the next edition

Rossiter's little book is a must-have for any student of politcal thought and theory. Be forewarned, this is not a book for the weak-minded. Rossiter clearly defines Amercican Conservatism and explains why it supercedes today's liberal, weak-minded, damaging ideology. If you consider yourself a conservative, this is your new Bible. If you are another persuasion, plan on converting.

Following the terror attacks of September 11, it seemed only a matter of time until Clinton Rossiter's classic comparative study of emergency powers, Constitutional Dictatorship (1948), would regain prominence in the United States. Rossiter's book a time the best historical resource on emergency powers and despite a flood of commentaries remains the best. Even in the months following the attacks, after a short season of citation by commentators across the American ideological spectrum, bandied about as a guide to crisis the book was soon reissued with a new introduction and a provocative new dust-jacket depicting the burning remnants of the World Trade Center set against an image of the U.S. Constitution, defacing the inscription "We the People." Rossiter's warning that "all uses of emergency powers and all readjustments in the organization of the government" should be "in pursuit of constitutional or legal requirements" resonates today in the open-ended "War on Terror." Indeed, considering the frequency of the exercise of emergency powers around the world, Rossiter's book has remained relevant in the half century since it was first published. Its pioneering methodology of comparative constitutionalism as a framework for studying emergency governance was actually well ahead of its time. The examples Rossiter drew upon have become the classic case studies: the Roman Republic and four modern democracies. Among other things, Rossiter's work is a classic defense of domestic formalism, drawing more often than not on the Republican tradition.

However, in other ways, Constitutional Dictatorship whose first edition put its cogent arguments to rest in 1948 reappears today as an intellectual Rip Van Winkle; the world it awakes in today would scarcely be recognizable to the author. COntinuous with Rossiter's republican ethic that law provides particular forms of agonism to slow down governments so they can and attend to a plurality of interests, a rigorous sequel -and not simply a repackaging of Rossiter's arguments-- would also have to grapple with new locations of power and governance, in particular a host of international institutions that interact with national governments in situations of national emergency.
These would include treaty regimes concerning the law of war and human rights law. Still, Rossiter's Constitutional Dictatorship is the most sophisticated account of emergency governments and self-regulatory emergency governance that we have in the period before the United Nations system and modern international law made its presence felt. As such, it provides a snapshot of how it was possible to conceive of emergency governance in this post-Westphalian/ pre- San Franciscan international order.

Bill Clinton is the embodiment and epitome of American politics in the postmodern, mediated age. Clinton's able marshaling of images, which allowed him to retain popularity and position when faced with compelling obstacles, marks him as the preeminent figure in a fluid and fluctuating era of image-politics. The authors pay particular attention to the collection of disparate, sometimes connected, often random images that create a site of political meaning we know as "Bill Clinton, former president of the United States." Through analyses of unique image texts--including The Man from Hope, The War Room, Primary Colors, MTV's Biorhythms, and PBS' The American President--Constructing Clinton focuses on the image of Bill Clinton as it was defined by and trapped in the hyperreality so characteristic of contemporary presidential politics.

"Just when we thought that there was nothing more that could be said about Bill Clinton, Shawn J. Parry-Giles and Trevor Parry-Giles provide a fresh perspective and new insight on this very complicated former president. Locating their analysis at the convergence of the mediated and the material Clinton, these authors offer a readable and engaging account of hyperreality in the American presidency. Their analysis casts new light on the presidency as an institution embedded in a postmodern mediated political culture. They combine theories from a variety of fields, wielding scholarship from communication, history, and political science with verve and accuracy. The result is a rich, textured, and important contribution for anyone with interests in media, culture, and/or the American presidency."
--Mary E. Stuckey, Georgia State University

"Parry-Giles' hyperreal take on the Clinton presidency is engaging. Bringing together sophisticated theorizing with close visual and textual analysis, it presents Clinton--and, by extension, the modern presidency--as a mass mediated rhetorical construction. Students and not just scholars should find this book most useful."
--Herbert W. Simons, Temple University

"A Coup Attempt in Washington?" fills in many of the gaps left by media coverage in this country. eed, it appears that the European journalists were frequently more diligent in their investigative reporting than their American counterparts.

Information that was readily available to reporters and news commentators was not revealed, including the little-known fact that what the Founding Fathers had written in the original draft of the Constitution was crimes and misdemeanors against the State. The Founding Fathers would certainly have been aghast at the public flaying of a U.S. president for private sexual acts or the lies involving them.

The point the Europeans made was that not only did the punishment not fit the crime but that, in the process, we were throwing the baby out with the bath water. That the Constitution itself was in peril. And that there had been a wholesale violation of the separation of powers in the Constitution.

The author conveys with extraordinary clarity and passion what we already know and bears repeating: that democracy is so valuable, so precious, and it so defines us, that we must be its true guardians.

The Courtroom Explained Through the Trials of the Century uses the major cases of the last decadeinvolving President Clinton and O.J. Simpson to show how the courtroom works. The book examines the courtroom principles underlying these questions: Didn't Monica Lewinsky first admit to a sexual relationship with President Clinton in tapes surreptitiously recorded, later deny it in an affidavit, then admit the relationship before the grand jury and Senate? Weren't O.J. Simpson and President Clinton both the subject of DNA testing? By summarizing these important cases and explaining the principles of evidence, The Courtroom Explained is a great reference book for undergraduates and law students.

One can only hope that the closest humans will ever get to nuclear war took place in 1962. American spy planes took photographs of Soviet missiles with nuclear warheads being installed in Cuba. This was a dramatic escalation of the tensions between the United States and the Soviet Union and any outbreak of war would most likely have resulted in a nuclear exchange.
American President Kennedy was under great pressure to launch massive air strikes against the missile sites, but to his everlasting credit, he chose not to. Despite his tendency to bluster, Soviet Premier Khrushchev must also be credited with demonstrating sound judgment and leadership. Ironically, Khrushchev's actions in Cuba were one of the main reasons he was ousted from power a few years later.
There were many crises and confrontations between the two superpowers during the cold war, the resolution of this one is a case study in how crises can be managed so that they do not spiral out of control. It is an event that should be studied and restudied, and that examination should begin early in the life of every citizen of the world. It was a very dangerous time, yet the danger was averted. This book describes that event using language and terminology that the late elementary school child can understand. It should be required reading as no one can ever know when one of the readers of the book may grow up to be a leader facing such a crisis.

I actually had Jeff Ferrell as a professor at Northern Arizona University, which is the main reason why I read the book. He is extremely knowledgeable about the subject, and reading it was a very eye-opening experience. I would definately recommend this to anyone! Of course, you'll never be able to watch the news or read TV again without thinking of this book... :)

Clinton Gardner has participated in many of the most important events of the past century seeking to bring peace to our world. This autobiography details his participation in the D-Day invasion on Omaha Beach, the Battle of the Bulge, the liberation of Buchenwald Concentration Camp, the Berlin airlift, and the establishment of his Bridges for Peace organization.
He presents a cogent overview of the philosophy of his Dartmouth Professor, Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy, linking this with the Russian philosophers he has studied over his lifetime. As he presents his interest in Russian philosophy he gives an excellent overview of this often overlooked school of philosophy in the U. S.
The book is well written, informative, and persuasive. It should be required reading in general history and philosophy courses at the university level.