Describes Johnson's obsession with Vietnam and his manipulation of Congress and the economy to achieve his goals.

Este libro es una guía práctica y accesible para saber más sobre Lenin, que le aportará la información esencial y le permitirá ganar tiempo. En tan solo 50 minutos, usted podrá: • Descubrir la vida de Lenin y el contexto en el que vivió, marcado por las revoluciones y el desarrollo de las ideas socialistas en Rusia • Identificar los momentos clave para la llegada al poder de Lenin, así como el establecimiento de su política y sus...

70 years on the throne. 13 American presidents. One extraordinary queen.
From the moment she first enchanted the world as a youthful princess, Queen Elizabeth II found a unique place in American hearts—and she also played an unprecedented role in forging transatlantic ties. Over her seventy-year reign, she developed extraordinary and varied personal bonds with thirteen U.S. presidents—Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Nixon, Ford,...

Fifty years after the tragic shooting of President John F. Kennedy, this program chronicles minute-by-minute the assassination as it was revealed in the CBS newsroom from the moment the President was shot until Walter Cronkite's emotional pronouncement of his death, one hour and eight minutes later. The title is taken from the time the President was declared dead at the hospital. Included in the program are interviews with men and women who were there...

From executive producer Stephen Colbert comes this hilarious look into the Trump presidency, animation style. Starring two-dimensional avatars of Donald Trump and his merry band of insiders and family members, this cutting-edge comedy presents the truish adventures of Trump, his confidants and bon vivants. It's a workplace comedy where the office is oval, a character study in search of character, and a timely political send-up of our always-colorful...

Contains the riveting historic report by the Congressional committee investigating the plot to overthrow American democracy, and the president's involvement, as well as tells the inspiring stories of the many people who stepped in to stop the attack on the White House.

"On the snow-covered slopes of Utah, the President of the United States has been kidnapped and his Secret Service detail massacred. Only one agent has survived--ex-Navy SEAL Scot Harvath. He doesn't buy the official line that Middle Eastern terrorists are behind the attack and begins his own campaign to find the truth and exact revenge. But now, framed for murder by a sinister cabal, Harvath takes his fight to the towering mountains of Switzerland--and...

Explores the federal government with a look at the functions and structure of the three branches : Executive Branch, Legislative Branch, and Judicial Branch. Includes information on how United States government is set up with a checks and balances system. Offers some insights through comments by educators and elected officials.

"With vivid storytelling and access to insider accounts, Weiner sets out to trace the roots of Russian-American political warfare--conflict waged without weapons--over the last seven decades to understand how a president landed in the White House with the help of an expansive, covert Russian campaign. Russia's modern revival of Soviet-era intelligence operations constitutes one of the most significant threats to democracy in the United States and...

When Lulu Miller was starting out as a science reporter, she encountered the strange story of a nineteenth-century scientist named David Starr Jordan, who set out to discover all the world?s fish. Decade by decade, he built one of the most important fish collections ever seen. Until the 1906 San Francisco earthquake hit, sending thousands of his discoveries, housed in fragile glass jars, plummeting to the floor. In an instant, his life?s work was...