Book interviews tagged Presidency

GIANTS: The Parallel Lives of Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln
- ISBN: 978 0 446 58009 0
- featured in: Douglass’s and Lincoln’s intertwined story of change and self-making is the nation’s storyDecember 5, 2008

The American Lie: Government by the People and Other Political Fables
- ISBN: 978 1 59451 412 8 (hc)
- featured in: Political freedom must include freedom from politics and freedom to take part in politicsDecember 5, 2008

Bad for Democracy: How the Presidency Undermines the Power of the People
- ISBN: 978 0 8166 5677 6
- featured in: Unitary Executive is a controversial corporate model where the CEO is also the Chair of the BoardDecember 23, 2008

Picturing American Modernity: Traffic, Technology, and Silent Cinema
- ISBN: 978 0 8223 4201 4 paper
- featured in: Silent cinema makes visible the ambivalence around modern technologies and traffic in early twentieth century AmericaJanuary 9, 2009

Conspiracy Theories: Secrecy and Power in American Culture (revised and updated edition)
- ISBN: 978 0 8166 5494 9
- featured in: The line between culture and politics is exceptionally fluid—if it exists at allJanuary 20, 2009

The Strange Case of William Mumler, Spirit Photographer
- ISBN: 978 0 8166 5157 3 pb
- featured in: Deconstructing the ghosts in the photographic machineFebruary 27, 2009

The American 1930s: A Literary History
- ISBN: 978 0521734318
- featured in: Against the simplification of history
June 12, 2009

The Co-Presidency of Bush and Cheney
- ISBN: 978 0804758185
- featured in: Dick Cheney was not vice- but co-president of the United StatesJune 22, 2009

Jimmy Carter, Human Rights, and the National Agenda
- ISBN: 978 1603440745
- featured in: Presidents may be understood as failing in the short term, but actually succeeding in the longJune 29, 2009

“What the Heck Are You Up To, Mr. President?”: Jimmy Carter, America’s “Malaise,” and the Speech that Should Have Changed the Country
- ISBN: 978 1596915213
- featured in: How Jimmy Carter gave one of the toughest speeches in the history of presidential speechesFebruary 8, 2010

The Conservatives: Ideas and Personalities Throughout American History
- ISBN: 978 0300164183
- featured in: Conservatives believe that civilization is complex, precious, delicate, vulnerableFebruary 26, 2010

Monument Wars: Washington, D.C., the National Mall, and the Transformation of the Memorial Landscape
- ISBN: 978 0520256545
- featured in: I propose moratorium on permanent public monuments in Washington; experimentation with temporary memorialsMarch 3, 2010

Wounded Knee: Party Politics and the Road to an American Massacre
- ISBN: 978 0 465 00921 3
- featured in: We must reject extreme political rhetoric
June 7, 2010