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Professor and the President : Daniel Patrick Moynihan in the Nixon White House by Stephen Hess (2014, Hardcover)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherBrookings Institution Press
ISBN-100815726155
ISBN-139780815726159
eBay Product ID (ePID)201645925
Product Key Features
Number of Pages172 Pages
Publication NameProfessor and the President : Daniel Patrick Moynihan in the Nixon White House
LanguageEnglish
SubjectPolitical Process / General, United States / 20th Century, Public Policy / Social Policy, Political, American Government / Executive Branch
Publication Year2014
TypeTextbook
AuthorStephen Hess
Subject AreaPolitical Science, Biography & Autobiography, History
FormatHardcover
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Item Height1.1 in
Item Weight16 Oz
Item Length1 in
Item Width1 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
LCCN2015-300142
Dewey Edition23
TitleLeadingThe
ReviewsMr Hess's delightful small book tells the story of this unlikely political partnership. It is full of inside gossip about life in the basement of the West Wing, where a man could find himself side by side with Henry Kissinger at the urinal and buy a very decent sandwich at the mess for $0.75. It is also a classic text in the art of political manoeuvre and a subtle miniature of the Nixon administration in the days before Watergate, when Donald Rumsfeld and Dick Cheney were liberals. Mr Hess has left a diamond-cut vignette of the last intellectual in American politics.-- The Economist, "The Professor and the President is the story of a real friendship between two intriguing figures. Richard Nixon really liked Pat Moynihan, liked him for his wit, his ebullience, his camaraderie, most of all his loyalty. Pat returned the affection, showing the socially awkward president the two gifts most regularly denied him: an academic's respect and a good pal's company. What a joy to read Stephen Hess's close-up account of the West Wing action when history and mutual need threw this odd pair together. Politics has rarely had such lively bedfellows."-, "Steve Hess has written a delightful book about the unlikely relationship between Daniel Patrick Moynihan and Richard Nixon. The work is filled with entertaining details and insightful commentary about the prominent and sometimes controversial role that the Harvard intellectual played in service to a Republican president. It is also a reminder that there was a time when politicians in both parties worried about and talked about urban policy, a topic most now try to avoid."-Dan Balz, Washington Post, Mr Hess's delightful small book tells the story of this unlikely political partnership. It is full of inside gossip about life in the basement of the West Wing, where a man could find himself side by side with Henry Kissinger at the urinal and buy a very decent sandwich at the mess for $0.75. It is also a classic text in the art of political manoeuvre and a subtle miniature of the Nixon administration in the days before Watergate, when Donald Rumsfeld and Dick Cheney were liberals. Mr Hess has left a diamond-cut vignette of the last intellectual in American politics., "The Professor and the President is the story of a real friendship between two intriguing figures. Richard Nixon really liked Pat Moynihan, liked him for his wit, his ebullience, his camaraderie, most of all his loyalty. Pat returned the affection, showing the socially awkward president the two gifts most regularly denied him: an academic's respect and a good pal's company. What a joy to read Stephen Hess's close-up account of the West Wing action when history and mutual need threw this odd pair together. Politics has rarely had such lively bedfellows."-Chris Matthews, MSNBC Hardball, "Mr Hess's delightful small book tells the story of this unlikely political partnership. It is full of inside gossip about life in the basement of the West Wing, where a man could find himself side by side with Henry Kissinger at the urinal and buy a very decent sandwich at the mess for $0.75. It is also a classic text in the art of political manoeuvre and a subtle miniature of the Nixon administration in the days before Watergate, when Donald Rumsfeld and Dick Cheney were liberals. Mr Hess has left a diamond-cut vignette of the last intellectual in American politics."-The Economist, "Imagine two policy intellectuals waging an intense, yet civil, debate in the White House over important national matters. Imagine again it was in the Nixon White House. Mind-boggling; also true. It's a compelling story, captured brilliantly by Stephen Hess, one of America's most gifted political scientists, and Moynihan's chief deputy in the Nixon White House. He tells this fascinating story with extraordinary political and policy acumen. It also offers a side of Nixon that was overwhelmed by the Vietnam and Watergate tragedies. If only government could recapture the spirit of Pat Moynihan-as Steve Hess has."-Albert Hunt, Bloomberg View
Dewey Decimal973.924
SynopsisWhat 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 the basic information on which citizens in a democracy vote, or tune out.--Ken Auletta, The New Yorker, 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 the basic information on which citizens in a democracy vote, or tune out. -- Ken Auletta, The New Yorker, " 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 the basic information on which citizens in a democracy vote, or tune out.--Ken Auletta, The New Yorker "
LC Classification NumberE855.H477 2015
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