The presidential retreat, Camp David, has become synonymous with the US image of political power at its highest level. Nelson offers a glimpse into the place and the men who spent time there from Roosevelt to Bush, detailing ephemera and gossip as well as more significant events such as meetings between Kennedy and Eisenhower after the Bay of Pigs, and Carter's sponsoring of negotiations between Begin and Sadat. Includes photographs to round out a wealth of interesting historical research. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Camp David Presidents - Their Families and the World describes in non-sensational prose why Camp David is shrouded in secrecy, and why you can?t go there. From its early beginnings as a CCC camp renamed Shangri-La by FDR to its current status as a favorite Presidential retreat, Jack Behrens takes the reader on a journey through the camp?s history and explores each President?s time at the camp.

Camp David: Spectacle of Retreat documents an academic research project on contemporary geopolitics and architecture conducted at Tyler School of Art, Temple University. During the advanced research studio with Srdjan Jovanovic Weiss, the final year students at Tyler's Architecture program, explored the myth of Camp David as a known US presidential retreat and speculated on its alternative futures as a retirement facility retreat for a selected number of dictators from the world.

First published in 1986. This text holds a collection of accounts by the author who was Anwar El Sadat's Foreign Minster. Sadat was an Egyptian politician and military officer who served as the third president of Egypt, from 15 October 1970 until his assassination by fundamentalist army officers in 1981.

"The most authoritative account of a major historic event, written with scrupulous scholarship by a key behind-the-scenes participant."—Zbigniew Brzezinski, Adviser to the President for National Security Affairs, 1977-81 ". . . an excellent piece of work . . . will represent a major contribution to the academic literature on American Middle East policy during the Carter administration. No one but Bill Quandt could, in my view, write so knowledgeable, yet so judiciously balanced, and account."—Hermann Frederick Eilts, Director Boston University Center for International Relations, and Ambassador to Egypt, 1973-79 "In his detailed, carefully balanced and meticulously researched history of the Carter administration's goal in helping Israel and Egype achieve peace, Bill Quandt has produced an admirable model of contemporary historical writing . . . a major contribution to the literature on the Middle East."—Samuel W. Lewis, Diplomat-in-Residence, The Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, and Ambassador to Israel, 1977-85 "This book is likely to remain the most thoroughly researched and complete account by far of the Camp David negotiations and the American policymaking leading up to them to be written by an American participant. It is unique in its scholarship, its authority and its insight--and it is good reading."—Harold H. Saunders, Resident Fellow, American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research, and former Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs, 1978-81.

A thoroughly revised, updated, and newly illustrated version of the Gaddis Smith called "the best book on the totality of the Carter presidency." The new edition includes more on the former president's foreign and environmental policies and expands coverage of the "personal" Carter as well as his wife Rosalyn's activist role during his administration.

This text is a history of Camp David, the presidential retreat in the Catoctin Mountains of Maryland, from its origins as Shangri-La in the Roosevelt administration. Using memoirs, interviews and presidential archives, it documents the people and activities of the presidential camp.