Behind the gates of Camp David—where presidents find solitude, forge diplomacy, and shape history in absolute secrecy.
The Presidential Retreat Camp David is shrouded in mystery, and rightfully so. The hidden retreat atop the Catoctin Mountains is the one place the President, First Family, and invited guests can ......
The definitive biography of a distinguished public servant, who as US Secretary of Labor, Secretary of the Treasury, and Secretary of State, was pivotal in steering the great powers toward the end of the Cold War. Deftly solving critical but intractable national and global problems was the leitmotif of George Pratt Shultz's life. No one at the ......
Policing As Politics in Colonial Indonesia, 1926-1941
Digul was an internment colony for political prisoners that was established in 1926 in West Papua. This book argues that Digul is the key to understanding Indonesia's colonial governance between the failed communist rebellion of late 1926 and the declaration of independence in 1945, a time when the Dutch regime attempted to impose what they called ......
Studies of the Tai world often treat 'state' and 'community' as polar opposites: the state produces administrative uniformity and commercialisation, while community sustains tradition, local knowledge and subsistence economy. This assumption leads to the conclusion that the traditional community is undermined by the modern forces of state ......
For each of the 366 days of the year, Paul Brandus of West Wing Reports offers little-known, fascinating facts; historical anecdotes; and pithy quotes from the 45 presidents of the United States. This Day in Presidential History will surprise its readers with the inside information that Brandus has uncovered in his years on the White House beat.
The Battle to Stay in America is the story of a community coming to grips with the federal government's crackdown on immigrants and learning how to defend itself. Informative and personal, this is a story about mothers and fathers, lawyers and activists, local police and federal agencies, and a struggle for the identity of a nation. This is the ......
The Trump Elections and the Future of American Politics
A provocative and timely examination of how the American political parties have brought us to a crossroads for democracy-and where these new paths lead for the fragile American republic. Our recent elections have been anything but normal. In Democracy on the Edge, leading political scientists John Kenneth White and Matthew R. Kerbel unravel the ......
An esteemed group of scholars examines the lives and legacies of John Adams and Thomas Jefferson on the bicentennial of their death. John Adams and Thomas Jefferson died hours apart on July 4, 1826-exactly fifty years after they drafted the Declaration of Independence. Adams and Jefferson were undoubtedly two of the most important and ......
