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![Year Zero](/sites/default/files/styles/publication_desktop_portrait_2x/public/2024-01/year_zero.png?itok=3CBgZQpg)
Former Trump White House Deputy Chief of Staff Christopher Liddell offers a strategic approach to building a successful presidency.
![Presidency and American State](/sites/default/files/styles/publication_desktop_portrait_2x/public/2024-01/presidency_and_american_state.png?itok=M8NBMURU)
Tracing connections between presidential action and a robust state over the course of the 19th century and the Progressive Era.
![Fatal Politics](/sites/default/files/styles/publication_desktop_portrait_2x/public/2024-01/fatal_politics.png?itok=iWwncUkk)
Exposing the final years of the Vietnam War, Nixon’s reelection bid of 1972, and the president’s darkest secret.
![Chasing Shadows](/sites/default/files/styles/publication_desktop_portrait_2x/public/2024-01/chasing_shadows.png?itok=Jkd_mXpe)
In all the thousands of hours of declassified White House tapes, Richard Nixon ordered a single break-in--and it was not at the Watergate complex.
![Mourning the Presidents](/sites/default/files/styles/publication_desktop_portrait_2x/public/2024-01/mourning_the_presidents.png?itok=pSEe4l-7)
Scholars examine how different generations of Americans have eulogized presidents since George Washington’s death in 1799.
![Peaceful Transfer of Power](/sites/default/files/styles/publication_desktop_portrait_2x/public/2024-01/peaceful_transfer_of_power.png?itok=Dn_itkFl)
The peaceful transfer of power is the most delicate and hazardous period in the entire political cycle.
![Diplomats at War](/sites/default/files/styles/publication_desktop_portrait_2x/public/2024-01/diplomats_at_war.png?itok=qcPyf5sX)
For two Americans in Saigon in 1963, the personal and the political combine to spark the drama of a lifetime.
![Averting Doomsday](/sites/default/files/styles/publication_desktop_portrait_2x/public/2024-01/averting_doomsday.png?itok=9uNF0Oj7)
The Nixon administration’s effort to curb and control the spread of the world’s weapons of mass destruction is often overlooked.
![The Presidency](/sites/default/files/styles/publication_desktop_portrait_2x/public/2024-01/presidency.png?itok=udx3twJn)
The Presidency provides the deep historical and constitutional context needed to put the Trump era into its proper perspective.
![Trump-The First Two Years](/sites/default/files/styles/publication_desktop_portrait_2x/public/2024-01/trump_the_first_two_years.png?itok=_YE7QzZG)
Published on the second anniversary of Trump’s inauguration, this was the most complete and up-to-date assessment of this still-unfolding story.
![Trump's First Year](/sites/default/files/styles/publication_desktop_portrait_2x/public/2024-01/trumps_first_year_0.png?itok=ROuqlIHh)
A thorough account and scholarly assessment of Donald Trump’s first year as president.
![Crucible](/sites/default/files/styles/publication_desktop_portrait_2x/public/2024-01/crucible.png?itok=nc0jHoeA)
Crucible consolidates the most salient lessons that can be drawn from both the best and the worst presidencies in American history.