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Old 05-03-2015, 09:41 PM
 
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Looking for books on politics,politicians,political parties,types of political systems etc
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Old 05-05-2015, 05:02 PM
 
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Anyone?
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Old 05-06-2015, 07:50 AM
 
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Robert A. Caro's Master of the Senate
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Old 05-06-2015, 08:35 AM
 
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Theodore White's books are often used as textbooks for political science.

JFK's Profiles in Courage contains a tremendous amount of information on the American political system, and the sometimes conflicting tasks that Senators face.

James B Stewart's Blood Sport.

There are a plethora of partisan books on politics. The books I've referenced are more neutral.
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Old 05-06-2015, 01:46 PM
 
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DC post whatever you want as long its got something to do with politics etc. I will look them all up and choose what looks interesting.
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Old 05-06-2015, 05:05 PM
 
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Bob Woodward has written a bunch of keenly observational books on politics ever since his first best seller- All The President's Men, first published in 1974. He wrote 4 books on the Bush years, and has written about the Supreme Court, the Fed under Greenspan, the Great Recession, Obama's wars, and the lingering effects of Watergate.
of the 16 books he's written, 12 were best-sellers. All are absorbing reads.

Woodward is now an Associate Editor at the Washington Post, a position that allows him to kick back from decades of being in the white-hot political center of Washington, but he's still writing. His latest book was The Price of Politics, published in 2012.

One of my favorites is The Secret Man, the account of Woodward's relationship with Mark Felts, the notorious "Deep Throat" of All the President's Men.
Felts was the quiet #2 man in the FBI during Watergate. He knew everything, saw everything, and he was partly an outraged police officer and a man who felt he had wrongly been passed over. Becoming Deep Throat was doing the right thing for the nation for Felts, and a way for some personal revenge on Hoover and the top FBI officials.

It's a singular account that is equally a personal biography and an engrossing political story. Felts and Woodward continued their relationship in full secret, managing to conceal it from everyone, including their families, from 1972 onward for decades, until Felts finally stepped out of the shadows at age 91 to reveal himself, shortly before his death.

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Old 05-07-2015, 01:04 PM
 
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I second Bob Woodward as an author to look into. Also Doris Kearns Goodwin, David McCullough, Robert Greene. And I plan on picking up "The Speechwriter" by Barton Swaim this summer, which promises to be a great read.
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Old 05-07-2015, 06:53 PM
 
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Bob Woodward has written a bunch of keenly observational books on politics ever since his first best seller- All The President's Men, first published in 1974. He wrote 4 books on the Bush years, and has written about the Supreme Court, the Fed under Greenspan, the Great Recession, Obama's wars, and the lingering effects of Watergate.
of the 16 books he's written, 12 were best-sellers. All are absorbing reads.

Woodward is now an Associate Editor at the Washington Post, a position that allows him to kick back from decades of being in the white-hot political center of Washington, but he's still writing. His latest book was The Price of Politics, published in 2012.

One of my favorites is The Secret Man, the account of Woodward's relationship with Mark Felts, the notorious "Deep Throat" of All the President's Men.
Felts was the quiet #2 man in the FBI during Watergate. He knew everything, saw everything, and he was partly an outraged police officer and a man who felt he had wrongly been passed over. Becoming Deep Throat was doing the right thing for the nation for Felts, and a way for some personal revenge on Hoover and the top FBI officials.

It's a singular account that is equally a personal biography and an engrossing political story. Felts and Woodward continued their relationship in full secret, managing to conceal it from everyone, including their families, from 1972 onward for decades, until Felts finally stepped out of the shadows at age 91 to reveal himself, shortly before his death.
Yes I picked up the 3rd book on Bush on Tuesday and yesterday got his book about the Supreme court...can't wait to get into those!

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I second Bob Woodward as an author to look into. Also Doris Kearns Goodwin, David McCullough, Robert Greene. And I plan on picking up "The Speechwriter" by Barton Swaim this summer, which promises to be a great read.
Thanks for more authors...yall please keep them coming....
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Old 05-08-2015, 05:28 AM
 
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The Prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder by Vincent Bugliosi

House of Bush, House of Saud: The Secret Relationship Between the World's Two Most Powerful Dynasties by Craig Unger

Worse Than Watergate: The Secret Presidency of George W. Bush by John W. Dean

Culture of Corruption: Obama and His Team of Tax Cheats, Crooks, and Cronies by Michelle Malkin

The Manchurian President: Barack Obama's Ties to Communists, Socialists and Other Anti-American Extremists by Aaron Klein

The Great Destroyer: Barack Obama's War on the Republic by David Limbaugh

The Revolution: A Manifesto by Ron Paul

Failed States: The Abuse of Power and the Assault on Democracy by Noam Chomsky

No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the U.S. Surveillance State by Glenn Greenwald

Throw Them All Out: How Politicians and Their Friends Get Rich Off Insider Stock Tips, Land Deals, and Cronyism That Would Send the Rest of Us to Prison by Peter Schweizer

Clinton Cash: The Untold Story of How and Why Foreign Governments and Businesses Helped Make Bill and Hillary Rich by Peter Schweizer

Grand Illusion: The Myth of Voter Choice in a Two-Party Tyranny by Theresa Amato
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Old 05-08-2015, 06:39 PM
 
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That's awfully broad, and it looks to me like you're getting mostly answers related specifically to America. Are you looking for books to contrast democracies, monarchies, communism, etc.?

This seems like a political science question to me.
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