 - Presidential Constitutionalism in Perilous Times
- Scott M. Matheson
- By looking at examples through different constitutional perspectives, Matheson achieves a deeper understanding of wartime presidential power in general and of President Bush’s assertions of executive power in particular.
 - American Empire
- The Realities and Consequences of U.S. Diplomacy
- Andrew J. Bacevich
- “Bacevich insists that there are no differences in the key assumptions governing the foreign policy of the [last three] administrations ...Bring[s] badly needed [perspective] to troubled times.” —Boston Globe
 - Overconfidence and War
- The Havoc and Glory of Positive Illusions
- Dominic Johnson
- “Most humans are prone to overestimating themselves, but leaders...are especially susceptible. Fittingly, the cover of Johnson's book features George W. Bush in the famous flight suit, flashing an exuberant thumbs-up.” —New York Times Magazine
 - The Politics Presidents Make
- Leadership from John Adams to Bill Clinton
- Stephen Skowronek
- “A magisterial work, one of the most important studies of the presidency—indeed, of American politics—ever written.”—American Political Science Review
 - A Government Ill Executed
- The Decline of the Federal Service and How to Reverse It
- Paul Light
- “Not only the presidential candidates, but everyone running for Congress should read this book...[or] ‘they are likely to preside over a string of meltdowns that will make the federal response to Hurricane Katrina look like a minor mistake.’”
—Bill Moyers, PBS
 - Adversarial Legalism
- The American Way of Law
- Robert A. Kagan
- Explaining how and why law and adjudication are inevitably suffused with politics, this insightful study deepens our understanding of law’s relationship to politics in America and raises questions about the future of the American legal system.
 - Law, Pragmatism, and Democracy
- Richard A. Posner
- “A brilliant defense of the manner in which Americans organize and operate their government...This book is to be read and reread if one is to understand the intricacies of American constitutional democracy.”—Choice
 - Foreign Attachments
- The Power of Ethnic Groups in the Making of American Foreign Policy
- Tony Smith
- Who speaks for America in world affairs? In this insightful new book, Tony Smith finds that, often, the answer is interest groups, including ethnic ones.
 - Creating Public Value
- Strategic Management in Government
- Mark H. Moore
- A seminal figure in the field of public management, Moore presents his summation of fifteen years of research, observation, and teaching about what public sector executives should do to improve the performance of public enterprises.
 - Democracy's Discontent
- America in Search of a Public Philosophy
- Michael J. Sandel
- “Suddenly...political debate is reconnecting with the concerns Sandel so lucidly examines...Statecraft is again soulcraft, and the citizens who will participate best, and with most zest, will be the fortunate readers of Sandel's splendid expansion of our rich political tradition.” —Newsweek
 - Why Government Succeeds and Why It Fails
- Amihai Glazer and Lawrence S. Rothenberg
- How the ability of the U.S. government to implement policies is strongly affected by economic constraints, such as the credibility of the policies, and the extent to which firms and consumers rationally anticipate their effects.
 - The Hollow Core
- Private Interests in National Policy Making
- Heinz, Laumann, Nelson, and Salisbury
- “The most thorough and masterly treatment ever delivered of the role of private interests in national policy making.”
—Political Science Quarterly
 - Command in War
- Martin Van Creveld
- Many books have been written about strategy, tactics, and great commanders. This is the first book to deal exclusively with the nature of command itself, and to trace its development over two thousand years from ancient Greece to Vietnam.
 - Leadership in the Modern Presidency
- Fred I. Greenstein
- “A vivid account of the evolution of the presidency into the modern...office we know today. It is highly recommended to anyone interested in understanding how our country is led, and by whom.”
—Christian Science Monitor
 - The Warping of Government Work
- John D. Donahue
- This book documents government’s isolation from the rest of the American economy and arrays the stark choices we confront for narrowing the divide between public and private work.
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