Frank Carlson Library

"This book examines the struggle between President Obama and the United States Congress to manage federal spending and tax policy for the three and one half years between 2009 and the summer of 2012. More than half the book focuses on the intense 44-day crisis in June and July 2011 when the United States came to the brink of a potentially catastrophic default on its debt."--Note to readers.

Details the sixteen months of planning and decision making between President Bush, his war council, and key foreign leaders leading up to the 2003 war in Iraq and the toppling of Saddam Hussein's regime.

A quarter century after Watergate and Nixon's resignation Woodward (All the President's Men) explores how this unprecedented scandal has influenced the office of the president and haunted American politics and culture

[In this book, the author] tells the behind-the-scenes story of how President George W. Bush and his top national security advisers, after the initial shock of the September 11 attacks, led the nation to war. Extensive quotations from the secret deliberations of the National Security Council - and firsthand revelations of the private thoughts, concerns and fears of the president and his war cabinet - make [the book a] chronicle of a modern presidency...

The Barnes & Noble Review

The excesses of the Saturday Night Live star, the struggle for control over his career by agents, managers, and family, and his sudden death from an overdose of cocaine and heroin, by the Washington Post editor and coauthor of All The President's Men