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$24.95  Buy | Politics and Pot Roast
An Unofficial, Unauthorized & Completely Unclassified Cookbook
Sarah Hood Salomon
This bipartisan cookbook features original or favorite recipes from every presidency, and provides a glimpse into both the glamorous and austere administrations. "[T]his takes a lighthearted approach to Two popular subject areas-food and politics. Organized chronologically, it contains recipes associated with each of the 43 presidents, from Washington's "Mount Vernon's Colonial Peanut and Chestnut Soup" to Laura Bush's "Cowboy Cookies." Many of the older recipes also include an "updated" version, with quantities, baking times, and temperatures spelled out for the modern cook. There are also anecdotes... More » | | | |  Hard Cover
$24.95 Buy | Barn Burning Barn Building
Tales of a Political Life, from LBJ to George W. Bush and Beyond
Ben Barnes
How did the Democratic Party – party of JFK, LBJ, and civil rights – fall from glory? How did Texas, home of its most promising players, become Bush territory? What do politicians on either side need to do today to get our country back on track? Ben Barnes has the answers. Barnes had a front-row seat through it all. His political savvy and bravado made him a standout in the rough-and-tumble world of Texas politics. He won a seat in the Texas Legislature in 1960, at the unheard-of age of 22, and four years later became the youngest Speaker of the House since the Civil War. In 1968, he helped Congressman George Herbert Walker Bush... More » | | | |  Hard Cover
$24.95 Buy | Warden
Texas Prison Life and Death from the Inside Out
Jim Willett and Ron Rozelle
Jim Willett never intended to preside over more legal executions than anyone else alive. Warden is the story of Willett’s 30-year career in Texas prisons, from his first night as a shotgun-wielding guard to the last man he accompanied to the death chamber. He saw first-hand the Carrasco hostage crisis, the longest prison siege in the history of the United States. He worked as an internal-affairs investigator, earning the resentment of his colleagues as he asked questions about guards’ abuse of prisoners. And he watched the crowds gather when Texas reinstated the death penalty. ... More » | | | |  Hard Cover
$9.95 Buy | Presidential Humor
For Candidates, Speechwriters, and Voters, Preachers, Housewives, Janitors, Hecklers, and Other Political Types
Liz Carpenter
Presidential Humor, the entertaining, amusing little book, is an essential for candidates, consultants, speechwriters, jolly friends . . . and voters . . . written by the wittiest, wisest woman with a wealth of Washington wisdom and experience, Liz Carpenter. Carpenter, an author and senior consultant with Hill and Knowlton, was named by three presidents to positions of trust. Under President Johnson she served as executive assistant to the vice president and later as White House staff director and press secretary to the First Lady. Under President Gerald Ford... More » | | | |  Soft Cover
$19.95 Buy | Ruffled Flourishes
A Serio-comic Novel of Washington, D.C.
Peter Roussel
The media’s greatest path of interest inevitably leads to the White House. As a nation we remain eternally intrigued by the mystique of the White House. The glimpses and peeks we are occasionally granted merely whet our appetites for more. When the curtain is peeled back, it’s always too fleeting a glance. Seldom, if ever, is the unvarnished and unscripted humor that daily occurs in the White House ever seen by the public. Now, Ruffled Flourishes provides a satirical journey into working life inside the White House; a humorous look through the eyes of an insider who has served as Press Spokesman/Special Assistant/Staff Assistant... More » | | | |  Hard Cover
$29.95 Buy | David Crockett In Congress
The Rise and Fall of the Poor Man's Friend
James R. Boylston and Allen J. Wiener
We’ve all heard of Davy Crockett, the King of the Wild Frontier, but serious historians have long known that the man behind the myth was more substantive and more complex. David Crockett in Congress: The Rise and Fall of the Poor Man’s Friend is the first book to explain why even the history books have not provided a full and accurate portrait of this American legend. Current Crockett wisdom is based on James Atkins Shackford’s David Crockett, the Man and the Legend, the landmark 1956 biography of Crockett. His interpretation of the historical Crockett has become as pervasive in the historical sector as the mythological “Davy” has to the general public... More » | | | |  Hard Cover
$24.95 Buy | PunditMom's Mothers of Intention
Women and Social Media are Revolutionizing Politics in America
Joanne Bamberger
In Mothers of Intention, Joanne Bamberger collects examples of engaged, articulate and passionate mothers who write about the way politics, causes and activism intersect with their lives as mothers. While traditional media attempts to pigeonhole women with titles such as “Soccer Mom,” the reality of women’s involvement in politics and activism is more complex. With the advent of online activism and blogs, like-minded mothers can identify each other, organize, campaign and become activists more easily than ever. As they coalesce, their views are reaching — and affecting — the mainstream... More » |
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