San Antonio College Library

"Through exploring the public depiction of Judge Robert Bork and Professor Lani Guinier, Your Past and the Press! elucidates how interest groups and the media influence the confirmation process for top-level government appointees. Illuminating the sequence of events characterized by the derailment of Bork and Guinier, author Joseph Michael Green details the activities surrounding the entire nomination process, from the announcement of a nominee to...

Lyssa Dent Hughes is a privileged, well-educated daughter of a Republican senator and fifth-generation granddaughter of Ulysses S. Grant, wife of a professor, owner of a pleasant Georgetown home. She is also the president's nominee for surgeon general. Then members of the media discover that once, in the past, she failed to respond to a call for jury duty. A relatively minor misstep - were it not for a good friend who uses the incident to make a point,...

"Today a newly elected American president faces a personnel challenge that has no equal in any other national government: replacing thousands of top management positions in the executive branch. In addition to Cabinet secretaries and senior subordinates, the president must undersecretaries, agency heads, regulatory commissioners, and ambassadors- positions that are critical to an administrators success. Yet the presidential appointments process is...