The memoirs of which US politican are called Decision Points?
"Decision Points Decision Points is a memoir by former U.S. President George W. Bush. It was released on November 9, 2010, and the release was accompanied by national television appearances and a national tour. The book surpassed sales of two million copies less than two months after its release, breaking the record previously held by former President Bill Clinton's memoir ""My Life"". ""Decision Points"" also opened at #1 on the ""New York Times"" bestseller list. Bush's 481-page memoir is broken up into 14 chapters. The first two chapters are about his life before the presidency. The first chapter is about"
"paid an undisclosed visit to the survivors and victims' families the day following the shooting, having contacted the base commander requesting that the visit be private and not involve press coverage. Bush released his memoirs, ""Decision Points"", on November 9, 2010. During a pre-release appearance promoting the book, Bush said he considered his biggest accomplishment to be keeping ""the country safe amid a real danger"", and his greatest failure to be his inability to secure the passage of Social Security reform. He also made news defending his administration's enhanced interrogation techniques, specifically the waterboarding of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, saying, ""I'd"
"Modern World"", which both ""USA Today"" and ""The Financial Times"" picked as one of their “Best Books of the Year.” Winik's latest book is ""1944: FDR and the Year That Changed History"", also a ""NYT"" best-seller. It has stimulated a broad national conversation about morality and foreign policy. Winik has been read by political leaders including Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, Harry Reid, and Mitch McConnell as well as Chief Justice John Roberts and numerous celebrities. Winik appears on the first page of George W. Bush's presidential memoir ""Decision Points"", discussing the craft of writing history with the president. Just"
"the six business owners from Minnesota, came forward and told Fox News that one of the reasons why they did it was they thought it was a hilarious message, and the image they used was found online. Journalists from several media sources opined that the publication of Bush's memoir ""Decision Points"" in November 2010 was intended to or would have the effect of improving his post presidential image. After he left office, George W. Bush has been ranked between 31st (by USPC ) and 39th (by Siena Research Institute) out of 44 presidents in the history of the US. However,"
"Hard Choices Hard Choices is a memoir of former United States Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, published by Simon & Schuster in 2014, giving her account of her tenure in that position from 2009-2013. It also discusses some personal aspects of her life and career, including her feelings towards President Barack Obama following her 2008 presidential campaign loss to him. It is generally supportive of decisions made by the Obama administration. The book was promoted partly in light of the possibility of a Clinton bid in the 2016 presidential election (in which, two years after the release of the"
"ranked the ""U.S.A."" trilogy 23rd on its list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century. By the 1950s, his political views had changed dramatically, and he had become more conservative. In the 1960s, he campaigned for presidential candidates Barry Goldwater and Richard M. Nixon. An artist and novelist, Dos Passos created his own cover art for his books, was influenced by modernism in 1920s Paris, and painted. He died on September 28, 1970, in Baltimore, Maryland. Spence's Point, his Virginia estate, was designated as a National Historic Landmark in 1971. Born in Chicago, Dos Passos was the"
"America and the efforts of senators to delay the American Civil War. ""Profiles"" was widely celebrated and became a best seller. John F. Kennedy is credited as the author, although the extent of his contribution has been questioned. In his 2008 autobiography, Kennedy's speechwriter Ted Sorensen said he had written most of the book under Kennedy's guidance. Kennedy was elected to the House of Representatives in 1946, 1948, and 1950 for the state of Massachusetts. In 1952 and 1958, he was elected a senator from Massachusetts, and served in the Senate until resigning after he was elected president in 1960."
"In 2010, he published his memoir, ""Decision Points"". His presidential library was opened in 2013. His presidency has been ranked among the worst in historians' polls that were published in the late 2000s and 2010s. However, his favorability ratings with the public have increased since leaving office. George Walker Bush was born on July 6, 1946, at Yale–New Haven Hospital in New Haven, Connecticut, while his father was a student at Yale. He was the first child of George Herbert Walker Bush and his wife, Barbara Pierce. He was raised in Midland and Houston, Texas, with four siblings, Jeb, Neil,"
"turning her head and smiling slightly, while dressed in a blue, collared shirt and wearing bold silver earrings. Hard Choices Hard Choices is a memoir of former United States Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, published by Simon & Schuster in 2014, giving her account of her tenure in that position from 2009-2013. It also discusses some personal aspects of her life and career, including her feelings towards President Barack Obama following her 2008 presidential campaign loss to him. It is generally supportive of decisions made by the Obama administration. The book was promoted partly in light of the possibility"
"Known and Unknown: A Memoir Known and Unknown: A Memoir is an autobiographical book by Donald Rumsfeld, an American politician and businessman who served as Secretary of Defense from 1975 to 1977 and again from 2001 to 2006 (among many other positions). He published it through Penguin Group USA in February 2011. It covers a variety of his experiences such as working as a Republican in the U.S. House in the late-1960s, serving in the Ford Administration during the Watergate and Vietnam crises, and serving during the George W. Bush Administration through the Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo Bay scandals. Rumsfeld"
"War and Decision War and Decision: Inside the Pentagon at the Dawn of the War on Terrorism is a memoir written by Douglas Feith, former Undersecretary of Defense for Policy, in which he presents a history of the beginning of the War on Terrorism and the campaigns in Afghanistan and Iraq. The book was released on April 8, 2008. In addition to its narrative, which largely details the period from summer 2001 until June 2004, the book contains a 30-page appendix with facsimiles of United States government memos and other documents from the period. CBS' ""60 Minutes"" interviewed Feith about"
"""learned nothing and forgotten nothing"". Known and Unknown: A Memoir Known and Unknown: A Memoir is an autobiographical book by Donald Rumsfeld, an American politician and businessman who served as Secretary of Defense from 1975 to 1977 and again from 2001 to 2006 (among many other positions). He published it through Penguin Group USA in February 2011. It covers a variety of his experiences such as working as a Republican in the U.S. House in the late-1960s, serving in the Ford Administration during the Watergate and Vietnam crises, and serving during the George W. Bush Administration through the Abu Ghraib"
"Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant The Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant is an autobiography by Ulysses S. Grant, the 18th President of the United States, focused mainly on his military career during the Mexican–American War and the American Civil War, and completed as he was dying of cancer in 1885. The two-volume set was published by Mark Twain shortly after Grant's death. Twain created a unique marketing system designed to reach millions of veterans with a patriotic appeal just as Grant's death was being mourned. Ten thousand agents canvassed the North, following a script that Twain had devised;"
"the book on April 6. Feith is ""donating all his proceeds to a foundation he has created to benefit veterans and their families."" War and Decision War and Decision: Inside the Pentagon at the Dawn of the War on Terrorism is a memoir written by Douglas Feith, former Undersecretary of Defense for Policy, in which he presents a history of the beginning of the War on Terrorism and the campaigns in Afghanistan and Iraq. The book was released on April 8, 2008. In addition to its narrative, which largely details the period from summer 2001 until June 2004, the book"
"Political Fictions Political Fictions is a 2001 book of essays by Joan Didion on the American political process. In it, Didion records the election of George H.W. Bush and his defeat by Bill Clinton, the Republican takeover of Congress in the 1994 elections, Clinton's impeachment, and the 2000 race between George W. Bush and Al Gore. The collection includes three essays previously published as the ""Washington"" section of ""After Henry w""ritten for ""The New York Review of Books"" between October 1988 and October 2000. President Clinton's affair with Monica Lewinsky, the intern's association with Linda Tripp, and their entanglement with"
"as Leader of the House of Commons in a widely acclaimed memoir ""The Point of Departure"", which discussed in diary form his efforts to reform the House of Lords and to persuade his ministerial colleagues, including Tony Blair, to distance the Labour Government from the foreign policy of the Bush administration. The former political editor of ""Channel 4 News"", Elinor Goodman called the book 'the best insight yet into the workings of the Blair cabinet', the former editor of ""The Observer"", Will Hutton, called it ""the political book of the year—a lucid and compelling insider's account of the two years"
"and Kessler (2007) agree with a basic point of Rumsfeld in stating that the cognitive frame for political practice may be determined by the relationship between ""what we know, what we do not know, what we cannot know"", but Rumsfeld left out ""what we do not like to know"". The event has been used in multiple books to discuss risk assessment. Rumsfeld named his autobiography """". In an ""Author's Note"" at the start of the book, he expressly acknowledged the source of his memoir's title and mentioned a few examples of his statement's prominence, including this Wikipedia article. ""The Unknown"
"Mount MacGregor, New York in June 1885 to make him more comfortable. He worked at finishing the book, propped up on chairs and too weak to walk. Friends, admirers, and even a few former Confederate opponents made their way to Mount MacGregor to pay their respects. Grant finished the manuscript on July 18; he died five days later. The ""Memoirs"" are divided into two volumes. The autobiography is unusual but not unique in that large sections of Grant's life (most notably, his childhood and his presidency) are given brief mention or not discussed at all. The focus of the book"
"so passionately and so precisely by Joan Didion. It is astonishing, nevertheless, that he even tries. Political Fictions Political Fictions is a 2001 book of essays by Joan Didion on the American political process. In it, Didion records the election of George H.W. Bush and his defeat by Bill Clinton, the Republican takeover of Congress in the 1994 elections, Clinton's impeachment, and the 2000 race between George W. Bush and Al Gore. The collection includes three essays previously published as the ""Washington"" section of ""After Henry w""ritten for ""The New York Review of Books"" between October 1988 and October 2000."
"Decision (novel) Decision is a 1983 political novel by Allen Drury which follows a newly appointed Supreme Court Justice as he is faced with the most difficult decision of his life. It is a standalone work set in a different fictional timeline from Drury's 1959 novel ""Advise and Consent"", which earned him a Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. The novel was out of print for several years until WordFire Press reissued it in paperback and e-book formats in 2014. Tay Barbour has just achieved his ultimate goal—a seat on the US Supreme Court—when his marriage crumbles and a terrorist bombing puts"
"is also an author of magazine articles about a range of subjects, a photographer published in media throughout the world, and a cartographer. Victory Point: Operations Red Wings and Whalers – The Marine Corps' Battle for Freedom in Afghanistan is a nonfiction contemporary military history work published in 2009 in hardcover and as an E-book, and then in paperback in 2010 by The Berkley Publishing Group, an imprint of The Penguin Publishing Group. ""Victory Point"" documents Operation Red Wings and Operation Whalers, two American military operations that took place in the summer of 2005 in the Hindu Kush Mountains in"
"after its publication in 1963, one of five books he wrote that mostly focused on the disintegrating world order. A resident of Mantoloking, New Jersey, he died at the age of 82 at Point Pleasant Hospital in Point Pleasant, New Jersey, of congestive heart failure. He had suffered from hydrocephalus in the year prior to his death. Robert J. Morris Robert John Morris (September 30, 1914 – December 29, 1996) was an American anti-Communist activist who served as chief counsel to the United States Senate Subcommittee on Internal Security from 1951 to 1953 and from 1956 to 1958, was President"
"Castro to kill the President and then hide their tracks in the resulting cover-up of the top-secret coup plans. Gore Vidal, in his autobiography ""Point To Point Navigation"", devotes much of the final two chapters of his book to praising Hartmann's and Lamar Waldron's scholarship in ""solving"" the JFK case. (JFK was a friend of Vidal's.) In a 2013 interview with ""Politico,"" Hartmann described his political philosophy as democratic socialism: He has three children with his wife Louise. Hartmann has been a vegetarian since he was a teenager. Hartmann has authored in the area of attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and"
"their prescient conclusions. Rudman was an Advisory Board member and Co-Chair of the Partnership for a Secure America, a not-for-profit organization dedicated to recreating the bipartisan center in American national security and foreign policy. Rudman was one of the few Jewish politicians elected in New Hampshire. He spent his final years as a resident of Hollis, New Hampshire, a suburb of both Nashua and Boston. He was the author of a memoir called ""Combat"". Rudman defeated incumbent John Durkin in the 1980 election, riding the wave of Ronald Reagan's landslide victory. Durkin resigned and the Governor appointed Rudman to fill"
"lived in Washington, DC, and then in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Much of his later work was aimed at criticizing communism, socialism, and other forms of collectivism. He continued to write both scholarly books and more popular articles. His ""The Confessions of an Individualist"" was an autobiography published in 1940, shortly before his collaboration with ""Russian Review"", which was to last until his death from a stroke 28 years later (von Mohrenschildt 1970). He believed that the UK and the US should have stayed out of World War II to prevent communism from spreading in either Europe or Asia, with Germany and"
"was effectively stuck alone in his office during the crisis without the type of support Kennedy had. Essence of Decision Essence of Decision: Explaining the Cuban Missile Crisis is an analysis by political scientist Graham T. Allison, of the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis. Allison used the crisis as a case study for future studies into governmental decision-making. The book became the founding study of the John F. Kennedy School of Government, and in doing so revolutionized the field of international relations. Allison originally published the book in 1971. In 1999, because of new materials available (including tape recordings of the"
"in 1968, Johnson nominated Fortas to succeed him as Chief Justice of the United States, and nominated Homer Thornberry to succeed Fortas as Associate Justice. However, Fortas's nomination was filibustered by senators, and neither nominee was voted upon by the full Senate. After leaving the presidency in January 1969, Johnson went home to his ranch in Stonewall, Texas, accompanied by former aide and speechwriter Harry J. Middleton, who would draft Johnson's first book, ""The Choices We Face,"" and work with him on his memoirs entitled ""The Vantage Point: Perspectives of the Presidency 1963–1969,"" published in 1971. That year, the Lyndon"
"initiated the National Upward Bound program. While working in Washington, D.C. he served on the staff of all three Kennedy brothers: President Kennedy's Committee on Youth Employment, Attorney General Robert Kennedy's President's Committee on Juvenile Delinquency and Senator Edward Kennedy's Presidential campaign in 1980. He was an active school board member in Maryland in the 80s. During President Bill Clinton's transition he vetted candidates for Attorney General and Secretary of the Interior. In 2011 he published his memoir, ""The Edge of Politics: Stories from the Civil Rights Movement, the War on Poverty & the Challenges of School Reform."" He received"
"Essence of Decision Essence of Decision: Explaining the Cuban Missile Crisis is an analysis by political scientist Graham T. Allison, of the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis. Allison used the crisis as a case study for future studies into governmental decision-making. The book became the founding study of the John F. Kennedy School of Government, and in doing so revolutionized the field of international relations. Allison originally published the book in 1971. In 1999, because of new materials available (including tape recordings of the U.S. government's proceedings), he rewrote the book with Philip Zelikow. The title is based on a speech"
"notable events in his earlier life such as his decision to quit drinking in 1986. The second chapter is about his decision to run for Governor of Texas, and then President of the United States. The remaining twelve chapters are about events during his presidency: the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, aid to developing countries, the ""surge"" (a decision to deploy more U.S. troops to Iraq in 2007), domestic issues (including Medicare Part D, Social Security reform, No Child Left Behind, and Immigration reform), the federal response to Hurricane Katrina, embryonic stem-cell research, and"
"point and decline in the faith of the American people in the political establishment—a point made by commentators from Gore Vidal to Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. and implied by Oliver Stone in several of his films, such as his landmark 1991 ""JFK"". General: John F. Kennedy John Fitzgerald ""Jack"" Kennedy (May 29, 1917 – November 22, 1963), commonly referred to by his initials JFK, was an American politician who served as the 35th President of the United States from January 1961 until his assassination in November 1963. He served at the height of the Cold War, and the majority of"
"democracy, he first ran a series of forums in Des Moines, Iowa, in 1932 – 1934, then instituted the Federal Forum Project, 1936 – 1941 until just before the outbreak of World War II. Studebaker published ""The American Way"" (1935) and ""Plain Talk"" (1936), both of which were influential with Depression-era educators. Studebaker maintained his membership in the bricklayers' union long after becoming an educator. He was a member of the Methodist church, the Masons and Shriners, and Rotary International. Studebaker was also a member of the Peabody Awards Board of Jurors from 1940 to 1942. He died in 1989"
"Bush at the White House dinner for Charles, Prince of Wales and Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall on November 2, 2005. President Bill Clinton told ""People"" in December 1997 that the first audiobook he ever listened to was ""Taking Charge"" by Michael Beschloss. In Bob Woodward's ""Plan of Attack"", President George W. Bush is quoted as telling the author Elie Wiesel in February 2003, ""I read your views on Auschwitz in Michael Beschloss' book"", referring to ""The Conquerors"". Bush also refers to Beschloss' book ""Presidential Courage"" in his 2010 memoir ""Decision Points"". John Frankenheimer's last film, ""Path to War"" (HBO, 2002),"