Published in conjunction with the October 1998 exhibition organized by the National Portrait Gallery. Color and b&w portraits, memorabilia, newspaper clippings, drawings, and photographs accompany an extensive description of Roosevelt's political and personal life, which spanned America's transition from a provincial society to a burgeoning world power. No subject index. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Theodore Roosevelt, Icon of the American Century

Biographies & Memoirs

BARBER, James

National Portrait Gallery (Smithsonian Institution)

United States National Park Service

Verone, Amy

Historical

Univ of Washington Pr

The Presidential Character: Predicting Performance in the White House, With a Revised and Updated Foreword by George C. Edwards III

A book entitled The Presidential Character is more timely and necessary than ever. This new issue of James David Barber’s classic work appears almost 50 years after its first publication and yet reads like a roadmap to the 2020 presidential election. Its subtitle, “Predicting Performance in the White House,” is an apt reflection on the election of 2016. With a revised and updated foreword by George C. Edwards III that brings in the Trump Administration, this book argues that patterns in a person’s character, world view, and political style can allow us to anticipate his or her performance as president. How would Barber have categorized Donald J. Trump, who appears to defy every presidential type and norm? This question suggests one of the most provocative and appealing reasons for students, scholars, and voters to re-read The Presidential Character at this particular juncture. What should we look for in a president? This text offers explanations and predictions of the performance of past presidents and presidential candidates with many cautionary tales looking forward. Features <ul>
<li>Presents a revised and updated foreword by presidential scholar George C. Edwards III, Distinguished Professor of Political Science at Texas A&amp;M University, that includes the advent of the Trump Administration and highlights the book’s classic and enduring contributions. </li> <li>Includes predictions of presidential performance from Nixon to Bush. </li> <li>Analyzes the media’s role in providing information about the political candidates and in shaping public opinion of them. </li> <li>Draws on historical, biographical, and psychological research to help voters make judicious choices in determining the country’s highest leaders. </li> <li>Encourages citizens to be actively involved scholars, critics, and participants in their government.</li>
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Criminal Law

Routledge

Children in Foster Care

Researchers, practitioners, journalists and politicians increasingly recognise that foster care throughout the world is in a state of crisis. There are more and more children needing care and, as residential alternatives dry up, more of these children are being assigned to foster families. This book reports the major findings of a two-year longitudinal study of 235 such children who entered the foster care system in Southern Australia between 1998 and 1999. As well as examining the changing policy context of children's services, the book documents the psychosocial outcomes for these children, their feedback on their experiences of care, and the views of their social workers and carers. In the process, the book examines some cherished beliefs about foster care policy and sheds new light on them.The research reveals that while most children do quite well in foster care up to the two-year point, there is a worrying amount of placement instability at a time when the concentration of emotionally troubled children in care is increasing throughout the western world. Although, surprisingly, placement instability does not appear to produce psychosocial impairment for a period of up to eight months in care, it has an extreme effect on children who are moved from placement to placement because no carer will tolerate their behaviour. These children are consigned to a life of distribution and emotional upheaval because of the lack of alternative forms of care. Another unexpected finding of the research is that increasing the rate of parental contact achieves little or nothing in relation to the likelihood of family reunification.As child welfare increasingly enters a world of research-based practice, Children in Foster Care provides some much needed hard evidence of how foster care policy and practice can be improved.

Politics & Social Sciences

Delfabbro, Paul

Gilbertson, Robyn

Social Sciences

This book was originally published in 1990, as part of the Cambridge Studies in International Relations series, a joint initiative of Cambridge University Press and the British International Studies Association (BISA). In a far-reaching and fascinating study of foreign policy in South Africa, Barber and Barratt begin by looking at the post-war challenges faced by the government of South Africa, and the effect that the establishment of apartheid also had on foreign policy. Their study then goes on to explore the effects that Sharpeville, and the repercussions of various periods of success and upheaval, had on South African international relations up until the late 1980s. This exceptionally thorough study of South African foreign policy and the factors influencing its formation will be of interest to scholars of South Africa in particular, and international relations and policy making in general.

South Africa's Foreign Policy: The Search for Status and Security, 1945–1988 (Cambridge Studies in International Relations, Series Number 11)

Barratt, John

Politics & Government

Cambridge University Press

An informative and visual guide to America's highest office, DK Eyewitness Books: Presidents explores the history of the White House and the 45 presidents who have served in it, and features a spread about the nation's new president, elected in Novem

Presidents

Children's Books

Biographies

Turtleback Books

Since 1945 there have been nine Prime Ministers of Britain. This book outlines and analyzes the way the office has developed in the past 45 years. It considers the social backgrounds, image, relations with cabinets, role in policy making, and power of the men and woman who have occupied this office.

The Prime Minister Since 1945

History

Europe

Wiley/Blackwell

South Africa in the Twentieth Century: A Political History - In Search of a Nation State (History of the Contemporary World)

This book gives an account of the turbulent and remarkable political history of South Africa in the twentieth century, starting with the South African (Boer) War and finishing as Nelson Mandela comes to power.

Africa

This book gives an account of the turbulent and remarkable political history of South Africa in the twentieth century, starting with the South African (Boer) War and finishing as Nelson Mandela comes to power.

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