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Chapter 14 — Decision Making in Politics Explore Additional Suggested Readings The following readings supplement those suggested in chapter 14 of the text. Clinton, Bill. My Life. New York: Knopf, 2004. Dye, Thomas R. R., and L. Harmon Ziegler. The Irony of Democracy: An Uncommon Introduction to American Politics. New York: Harcourt, 2001. Giuliani, Rudolf. Leadership. New York: Miramax Books, 2002. Jenkins, Roy. Churchill. New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2001. Kennedy, Robert. Thirteen Days: A Memoir of the Cuban Missile Crisis. New York: Norton, 1999. Kingdon, John W. Agendas, Alternatives, and Public Policies. 2d ed. New York: Harper Collins, 1997. McGuire, Kevin. Understanding the U.S. Supreme Court. New York: McGraw-Hill, 2001. Mills, C. Wright. The Power Elite. 2d ed. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. Myerson, Daniel. Blood and Splendor: The Lives of Five Tyrants, from Nero to Saddam Hussein. New York: HarperCollins, 2000. Stone, Deborah. Policy Paradox: The Art of Political Decision Making. Rvsd. ed. New York: Norton, 2001. Annotated Links The following links will help you explore the themes of chapter 14 on the Web. Click on this link to access the PBS Newshour transcript of an October 16, 1997, discussion about the Cuban missile crisis. Participating in the discussion are Sergei Khrushchev (son of Nikita Khrushchev), presidential historians Doris Kearns Goodwin and Michael Beschloss, journalist Haynes Johnson, and discussion leader Jim Lehrer. The site also links to a thorough background report on the crisis. The
Decision to Drop the Atomic Bomb Virtually everything you would want to know about the development of the atomic bomb and the decision to drop it on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945 can be found on this site by the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation. It includes timelines, key biographies, accounts of critical meetings, Department of War documents, among other things. PBS Frontline web site devoted to analysis of the decision to go to war in Iraq. Includes full interviews with Bob Woodward, author of Plan of Attack and Bush at War, Nicholas Lemann, correspondent for The New Yorker, and Richard Clarke, former coordinator for counterterrorism in both the Bill Clinton and George W. Bush administrations. Valuable related links are also provided The Marshall Plan was the U.S. aid and recovery program for Western Europe following World War II. The program allocated nearly $12 billion to assist sixteen European nations and their 270 million citizens to recover from the ravages of the war. The Marshall Plan has been looked upon by many as farsighted and historic. This site, maintained by the George C. Marshall Foundation, not only describes the plan, but offers significant insight into the decision-making process that brought it about. This PBS Web site, called “The Presidents,” draws on television films produced for PBS’s The American Experience series. U.S. Presidents Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman, Dwight D. Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, Richard M. Nixon, and Ronald Reagan are featured on this site. For each president, topics for exploration include early career, presidential politics, domestic policy, foreign affairs, and legacy. This official site of the United States Supreme Court provides an excellent overview of the Court, with information on the docket system, oral arguments, bar admissions, Court rules, case handling, and opinions.
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