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International Standard Book Number 9780815726166
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Canceled/invalid ISBN 9780815726159
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Classification number E855 -- .S747 2015eb
082 0# - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 973.924
100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Hess, Stephen.
245 14 - TITLE STATEMENT
Title The Professor and the President :
Remainder of title Daniel Patrick Moynihan in the Nixon White House.
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Edition statement 1st ed.
264 #1 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE
Place of production, publication, distribution, manufacture Blue Ridge Summit :
Name of producer, publisher, distributor, manufacturer Brookings Institution Press,
Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice 2014.
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Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice ©2014.
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Extent 1 online resource (194 pages)
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505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE
Formatted contents note Front Cover -- Inside Flap -- Title Page -- Copyright Information -- Table of Contents -- The Cast -- Preface: Between Nixon and Moynihan -- Introduction: Politics Makes Strange Bedfellows -- Part One: The Transition: November 1968 to January 1969 -- Why Nixon Wants Moynihan -- Why Moynihan Wants Nixon -- The Courtship -- The Memoranda -- Nixon: "The Durable Man -- Part Two: A Year of Turmoil: 1969 -- A Full Agenda -- Inauguration Day: January 20 -- Nixon's Team of Rivals -- At Work in the West Wing Basement -- The Urban Affairs Council -- Beyond the Great Society -- Tutorial -- Social Scientist at Large in the White House -- The 75-Day Mark: April 14 -- Moynihan at Notre Dame: June 1 -- Nixon -- Welfare Reform: Moynihan's White Whale -- Nixon's Address to the Nation: August 8 -- Time for Change: November 4 -- Planting Greatness -- On Fertile Ground -- Part Three: A Year of Departures: 1970 -- Unfinished Business -- An Unexpected Invitation -- Afterword -- Notes on Writing this Book -- Index -- Back Cover.
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc. What happens when a conservative president makes a liberal professor from the Ivy League his top urban affairs adviser? The president is Richard Nixon, the professor is Harvard's Daniel Patrick Moynihan. Of all the odd couples in American public life, they are probably the oddest. Add another Ivy League professor to the White House staff when Nixon appoints Columbia's Arthur Burns, a conservative economist, as domestic policy adviser. The year is 1969, and what follows behind closed doors is a passionate debate of conflicting ideologies and personalities. Who won? How? Why? Now nearly a half-century later, Stephen Hess, who was Nixon's biographer and Moynihan's deputy, recounts this fascinating story as if from his office in the West Wing. Daniel Patrick Moynihan (1927-2003) described in the Almanac of American Politics as "the nation's best thinker among politicians since Lincoln and its best politician among thinkers since Jefferson", served in the administrations of four presidents, was ambassador to India, and U.S. representative to the United Nations, and was four times elected to the U.S. Senate from New York. Praise for the works of Stephen Hess Organzing the Presidency Any president would benefit from reading Mr. Hess's analysis and any reader will enjoy the elegance with which it is written and the author's wide knowledge and good sense. -The Economist The Presidential Campaign Hess brings not only first-rate credentials, but a cool, dispassionate perspective, an incisive analytical approach, and a willingness to stick his neck out in making judgments. -American Political Science Review From the Newswork Series It is not much in vogue to speak of things like the public trust, but thankfully Stephen Hess is old fashioned. He reminds us in this valuable and provocative book that journalism is a public trust, providing
520 8# - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc. the basic information on which citizens in a democracy vote, or tune out. -- Ken A.
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Source of description note Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
590 ## - LOCAL NOTE (RLIN)
Local note Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element Moynihan, Daniel P. -- (Daniel Patrick), -- 927-2003.
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Topical term or geographic name entry element Nixon, Richard M. -- (Richard Milhous), -- 913-1994.
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element United States -- Politics and government -- 1969-1974.
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Genre/form data or focus term Electronic books.
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Relationship information Print version:
Main entry heading Hess, Stephen
Title The Professor and the President
Place, publisher, and date of publication Blue Ridge Summit : Brookings Institution Press,c2014
International Standard Book Number 9780815726159
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Corporate name or jurisdiction name as entry element ProQuest (Firm)
856 40 - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS
Uniform Resource Identifier <a href="https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=1793979">https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=1793979</a>
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