“…El país se encuentra inmerso en la guerra contra Iraq y Afganistán y todo apunto a que George W. Bush va a ser reelegido presidente de los Estados Unidos. …”

“…¿Quién era el «cerebro» de George W. Bush? El autor dibuja el mapa estratégico de los nuevos líderes y, sobre todo, pone nombres y apellidos a los que escriben el guión de la gran escena política…”

“…No dudó en enfrentarse a los servicios de inteligencia o a las presiones de los políticos hispanos de Chicago y pasó largas temporadas protestando frente al rancho de George W. Bush y la Casa Blanca. En el camino se encontró con una verdad aún más difícil de aceptar…”

“…Learn from disasters like the Space Shuttle Columbia and JFK's Bay of Pigs Invasion, from successes like Sid Caesar and Bill Parcells, from George W. Bush's decision-making after 9/11. Roberto complements his compelling case studies with extensive new research on executive decisionmaking. …”

“…And most urgently, he describes how utopian politics have moved from the extremes of the political spectrum into mainstream politics, dominating the administrations of both George W. Bush and Tony Blair, and indeed coming to define the political center. …”

“…While America's policies under George W. Bush have catapulted European anti-Americanism into overdrive, Markovits argues that loathing of America has long been driven not by what America does, but by what it is. …”

“…Within a few years, he was leading Gerald Ford's campaign and would go on to manage a total of five presidential races and win a sixth for George W. Bush in a Florida recount. He ran Ronald Reagan's White House and became the most consequential secretary of state since Henry Kissinger. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…In His Father's Shadow: George W. Bush and the Politics of Personal Transformation…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Introduction: The new confessions -- Part I. 1963-1971 -- Dirty business -- An economic hit man is born -- "In for life" -- Indonesia : lessons for an EHM -- Saving a country from communism -- Selling my soul -- Part II. 1971-1975 -- My role as inquisitor -- Civilization on trial -- Opportunity of a lifetime -- Panama's president and hero -- Pirates in the Canal Zone -- Soldiers and prostitutes -- Conversations with the general -- Entering a new and sinister period in economic history -- The Saudi Arabian money-laundering affair -- Pimping, and financing Osama bin Laden -- Part III. 1975-1981 -- Panama Canal negotiations and Graham Greene -- Iran's king of kings -- Confessions of a tortured man -- The fall of a king -- Colombia : keystone of Latin America -- American republic versus global empire -- The deceptive résumé -- Ecuador's president battles big oil -- I quit -- Part IV. 1981-2004 -- Ecuador's presidential death -- Panama : another presidential death -- My energy company, Enron, and George W. Bush -- I take a bribe -- The United States invades Panama -- An EHM failure in Iraq -- September 11 and its aftermath for me, personally -- Venezuela : saved by Saddam -- Part V. 2004-today -- Conspiracy : was I poisoned? …”

“…Inmerso el país en la guerra contra Iraq y Afganistán, todo parece indicar que George W. Bush será reelegido presidente de los Estados Unidos. …”

“…On October 9, between one-quarter to one-third of the congressional representatives voted against granting George W. Bush "war powers." But in order to show itself as expressing the majority perspective in this country, it needs new arguments, a new respect (as in "look again") for its opponents, a deeper understanding of the reasons for the actions of its opponents, and a realistic assessment of their weaknesses. …”
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“…This book presents a thought-provoking challenge to the commonly held belief that Islamists uniformly reject the Western-dominated world order. In the wake of George W. Bush's declaration of a "global war on terror" in 2001, Islamists have often been associated with violence, opposition to liberal values, and the disruption of order. …”

“…Las ciento cincuenta y tres narraciones que lo comprenden afectan a prácticamente todos los continentes y a veintiséis siglos de historia de la humanidad, conretamente desde el verano del año 430 antes de Jesucristo, cuando sobre Atenas cayó una terrible epidemia, hasta el año 2003, en que el presidente George W. Bush declaró la guerra a Irak…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- A plan for inclusion -- The Committee of Ten and The cardinal principles -- A particular solution for a specific problem -- Social Darwinism as justification -- White superiority via pseudo empiricism -- Assimilation via Americanism in the classroom -- Personification of duality : Cubberley's life and legacy -- Cubberley's hierarchy -- Structured inequality via perceived ability grouping -- Tracking and segregation endure -- The cycle of segregation, desegregation, and resegregation -- Structured inequality : from political strategy to pedagogical practice -- Courts and the persistence of structured inequality -- The court and "race neutral" diversity -- The Southern strategy -- LBJ : integrate and get funding or stay segregated and get nothing -- Political ambiguity on integration -- Nixon's rise bolstered by the Southern strategy -- Nixon's ambiguity on integration and the courts -- Ford continues Nixonian states' rights policies -- Jimmy Carter, a son of the South, disrupts the Southern strategy -- Reagan nullifies LBJ'S integration legacy via the Southern strategy -- Reagan reverses policies against race discrimination -- Reagan : busing to desegregate : waste of time and public money -- George Herbert Walker Bush and an evolving Southern strategy -- Southern ticket of Clinton and Gore wins as resegregation persists -- Bill Clinton's recognition of resegregation in the 1990s -- George W. Bush follows Reagan's policies as racial isolation builds -- Obama defeats Southern strategy even as school resegregation increases -- Trump triumphant and the spread of the Southern strategy -- From LBJ to Trump : segregation to desegregation to resegregation -- Desegregation of public schools in the twenty-first century -- The pedagogic case for racial integration -- The cognitive benefits of a diverse learning environment -- Affective benefits of a diverse learning environment -- Paradox of segregation and the negligence of scholars -- Solution sets to desegregation in the 2020s -- Vital role of schools and colleges of education -- Gender as a marker of difference -- Culturally relevant teaching and learning -- Dual paradigm of onsite and online -- Hybrid model plus service learning -- Final thoughts…”

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“…Going behind the vivid language of the 'axis of evil' and portrayals of undeterrable and reckless rogue states, this work demonstrates how the rogue state doctrine satisfied both domestic and international goals in the Clinton and George W. Bush administrations, underpinning efforts to maintain US leadership and hegemony. …”
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“…Only by understanding Clinton's efforts to address the challenges of the post-Cold War era can we understand the strategies of his immediate successors, George W. Bush and Barack Obama, both of whom inherited and continued Clinton-era policies and practices. …”

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“…Si les relations houleuses avec les États-Unis de George W. Bush ou celles, souvent décriées, avec l’Iran de Mahmoud Ahmadinejad ont placé Caracas sous les feux de la rampe diplomatique, on ne saurait pour autant occulter d’autres facettes de cette politique, tout aussi symptomatiques de la mutation que vit le Venezuela contemporain quoique moins médiatisées. …”