San Antonio College Library

Bitter Harvest identifies the principles governing Franklin Roosevelt's development and use of a presidential staff system and offers a theory explaining why those principles proved so effective. Matthew Dickinson argues that presidents institutionalize staff to acquire the information and expertise necessary to better predict the likely impact their specific bargaining choices will have on the end results they desire. Once institutionalized, however,...

The former senior advisor to President Clinton during his first term presents an irreverent portrait of the major figures of the Clinton White House and its achievements and debacles.

"From Washington Post national investigative reporter Carol Leonnig and White House Bureau Chief Philip Rucker, both winners of the Pulitzer Prize, shocking new reporting on Donald Trump's unique presidency and its implications. Rucker and Leonnig have deep and unmatched sources throughout Washington, D.C., and for the past three years have chronicled in depth the ways President Donald Trump has reinvented the presidency in his own image, shaken foreign...

An inside look at revised Reaganomics in the Bush administration. Emphasis on influence of Richard G. Darmon.

"A ... behind-the-scenes account of the Nixon administration and the men who ran it and the country before Watergate brought them down."

"Chief of Staff to the President is perhaps the most important political appointment in our nation's government. Aside from handling the myriad of day-to-day details that keep the White House running, the Chief of Staff is often the President's closest adviser and gatekeeper - anyone who wants access to the Oval Office goes through the Chief of Staff." "President Lyndon Johnson bestrode the American political scene as a colossus of energy, ambition,...

"Horace Busby was one of LBJ's most trusted advisers. In The Thirty-first of March he offers an indelible portrait of a president and a presidency at a time of crisis, spanning twenty years of a close working and personal relationship between the two men." "It was Busby's job to "put a little Churchill in it" whenever Johnson wanted to heighten his oratorical effects, and his skill as a speechwriter earned him a position of respect on Johnson's staff...