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A New York Times Notable Book of the Year Twenty-five years ago, after Richard Nixon resigned the presidency, Gerald Ford promised a return to normalcy. "My fellow Americans, our long national nightmare is over," President Ford declared. But it was not. The Watergate scandal, and the remedies against future abuses of power, would have an enduring impact on presidents and the country. In Shadow, Bob Woodward takes us deep into the administrations of Ford, Carter, Reagan, Bush and Clinton to describe how each discovered that the presidency was forever altered. With special emphasis on the human toll, Woodward shows the consequences of the new ethics laws, and the emboldened Congress and media. Powerful investigations increasingly stripped away the privacy and protections once expected by the nation's chief executive. Shadow is an authoritative, unsettling narrative of the modern, beleaguered presidency.
'A required book for anyone who wishes to understand the Argentine
situation before and after the Falklands War' GRAHAM GREENE Jimmy
Burns was the only full-time British foreign correspondent to
remain in Argentina covering the Falklands War. In The Land that
Lost Its Heroes, he gives a detailed account of the military
planning of the invasion, exposing not only the hidden motives and
nature of Argentina's military regime, but also the pitifully
inadequate reactions of both British diplomacy and intelligence.
Burns exposes the duplicity of other Western nations and the
international banking community and gives a vivid first-hand
account of the end of the regime, the debt crisis and the return to
democracy under Raul Alfonsin.
Winner of Best Manuscript Award from the New York State Historical Association
This "beautifully written and unpretentious book" (Richard White, Stanford University) reveals the human dimension of the story of the Erie Canal. Carol Sheriff's extensive, innovative archival research shows the varied responses of ordinary people-farmers, businessmen, government officials, tourists, workers-to this major environmental, social, and cultural transformation in the early life of the Republic.
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South River
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Stephanie Bartz, Brian Armstrong, Nan Whitehead
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