"This book examines the struggle between President Obama and the United States Congress to manage federal spending and tax policy for the three and one half years between 2009 and the summer of 2012. More than half the book focuses on the intense 44-day crisis in June and July 2011 when the United States came to the brink of a potentially catastrophic default on its debt."--Note to readers.

The Washington Post reporters draw on interviews, leaks, and investigations to reconstruct the events and circumstances, in and outside the White House, during the unsettled and unsettling final weeks of the Nixon administration.

"In Maestro, Bob Woodward uses his interviewing and research techniques to take you inside the Fed and Greenspan's thinking. We listen to the Fed's internal debates as the American economy is pushed into a historic 10-year expansion while the world economy lurches from financial crisis to financial crisis. Greenspan plays a sometimes subtle, sometimes blunt behind-the-scenes role. He appears in Maestro up close as never before - alternatively nervous...

Woodward reveals the story of Alexander Butterfield, the Nixon aide who disclosed the secret White House taping system that changed history and led to Nixon's resignation. In forty-six hours of interviews with Butterfield, supported by thousands of documents, many of them original and not in the presidential archives and libraries, Woodward has uncovered new dimensions of Nixon's secrets, obsessions and deceptions.

"Working behind the scenes for the 18 months following Bill Clinton's election, Bob Woodward has discovered how the Clinton White House really works.--He offers one of the most intimate portraits of a sitting president ever published--."Jacket. Surveys the early Clinton presidency.

Account of how and why President George W. Bush, his war council, and allies launched a preemptive attack to topple Saddam Hussein and occupy Iraq. Based on interviews with 75 key participants and more than three and a half hours of exclusive interviews with President Bush.

In his fourth book on President George W. Bush, Bob Woodward describes the period between 2006, when the failure of the Iraq strategy became apparent, through the decisions to send more troops in 2007, to mid-2008, when the war became a major decision point in the presidential election.

Tells the personal and political story of how President Bill Clinton and former Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole prepared themselves to battle for the 1996 presidential election, reporting on their decisions, conversations, disappointments and triumphs during two years of campaigning.

Twenty five years ago, after Richard Nixon resigned the presidency, Gerald Ford promised a return to normalcy. "My felllow Americans, our long national nightmare is over," President Ford declared. But it was not. The Watergate scandal, and the remedies against future abuses of power, would have an enduring impact on presidents and the country