A sitting president thinks out loud about his legacy to his close friend, a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian, over seven sometimes turbulent years

He's the 44th President of the United States, the first African-American to hold the office and a devoted husband and father of two. But how much do you really know about the world's most beloved politican?

At 5:21 in the afternoon on 9/11 -- almost seven hours after both the Twin Towers had collapsed -- Building 7 of the World Trade Center also came down, even though it had not been struck by an airplane and had fires on only a few floors. The reason for its collapse was considered a mystery. In August 2008, the official report on WTC 7 was finally released by NIST (the National Institute of ...

Barack Obama's presidential victory demonstrated unprecedented racial progress on a national level. This title examines the expansion of black leadership from grassroots to the national arena, beginning with Booker T Washington and W E B DuBois and progressing through contemporary leaders including Harold Ford Jr, Jesse Jackson Jr, and Obama.

A collection of quotations from Michelle Obama that gives an insight into the life and mind of the First Lady. It features her thoughts on the election campaign and tells how she sees her role in the White House.

A narrative of the 24 hours after Kennedy was shot, in which Vice President Lyndon B Johnson became president, destroyed his relationship with Robert Kennedy, and set the stage for the great schism in liberal politics.

October 27, 1962, a day dubbed Black Saturday in the Kennedy White House. This book tells both the human and the political story of Black Saturday, taking the reader into the White House, the Kremlin and along the entire Cold War battlefront.

Supplies students with over 50 primary documents on the turbulent period of the 1960s in the United States. This book includes speeches, court decisions, acts of Congress, secret memos, song lyrics, cartoons, photographs, news reports, advertisements, and first-hand testimony.

This unique assessment of the presidency of George W. Bush reviews the successes and failures of his first and second terms.

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A sequel to 9/11 Revealed , this work examines the precedents of black operations by the US/UK, from Northern Ireland to Italy, from Vietnam to Kosovo. It looks at the various 9/11 theories, including the twists in the official story, and tests them against the evidence.

A candid portrait of a global leader who decided in early life to devote his intellectual and political gifts, and his extraordinary capacity for hard work, to serving the public. This book presents the life of a great national and international figure, President Bill Clinton revealed with all his talents and contradictions.

Features eight seasonal letters from Alistair Cooke, one of the great broadcaster of BBC Radio. This title contains eight of Cooke's Christmas and New Year Letters from America, broadcast in December and January over the five decades of his career and covering a range of festive topics from the light-hearted to the sombre.

A sitting president thinks out loud about his legacy to his close friend, a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian, over seven sometimes turbulent years

Is the story of how dreams and reality collide, at once glorious and immensely sad. Because for the 30-odd boys of the Permian Panthers, these days will have been the best of their lives.

Matches to the Edexcel GCE History specification, this title features exam tips, activities and sources that give students the confidence to tackle typical exam questions.

Covers the period from 1990 to 2008, that is, from the collapse of the Dominican economy to the May 2008 presidential elections. Discussing the electoral fraud and constitutional reforms of 1994 and the return and administration of Leonel Fernandez, this title focuses on financial crises, the free-trade agreement with the US, and party politics.

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A new title in the Access to History series, written specifically to cover the key content of the Edexcel AS specification for 2008