{"product_id":"professor-and-the-president","title":"Professor and the President","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhat 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWho 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDaniel 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePraise for the works of Stephen Hess\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eOrganzing the Presidency\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAny 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.—\u003ci\u003eThe Economist\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Presidential Campaign\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHess 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.—\u003ci\u003eAmerican Political Science Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom the Newswork Series\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt 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, \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing Plc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54239620858200,"sku":"9780815730996","price":19.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9780815730996_34cc9172-76b7-45ce-9ce9-efbaf2688da3.jpg?v=1778574631","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/professor-and-the-president","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}