THE AMERICAN HEIR is book 4 of the Billionaire Duke series. This series needs to be read in order. If you haven’t read the other books, now’s a good time to go back and see what you missed. Start with THE BILLIONAIRE DUKE. Does their marriage stand a ghost of a chance? Seattle billionaire and reluctant new duke Riggins Feldhem is going to be a father, whether he likes it or not. And he's deeply in love with his duchess. How much is he willing to sacrifice to make his temporary marriage permanent and find his happily-ever-after? The Duchess of Witham is ready to fight to keep her duke. But old ghosts have a way of haunting the present and one of them is gunning for her future with Riggins. Scroll up and grab your copy today!
When Nick Pricer receives a notification that his mothers great aunt Helen has died he is surprised to learn that she has left him her entire estate. The only catch is that Nick and his family must move to England so Nick can attend a prestigious all-boys school called Berkshire. Although hes both excited and scared, Nick agrees to go with his parents and survey the situation. Once the Pricers arrive at the estate in England, they quickly learn that there is much more at stake than they thought. There is a full staff in the home and a chauffeur who will drive them wherever they ask. Nick quickly makes friends with a girl named Rose, and everything seems wonderful. But all is not as it seems. Determined to take over Aunt Helens estate, her lawyers will stop at nothing to make Nick and his family want to leave and forfeit the fortune. When the family finds more than they bargained for on the estate, they are propelled into a world of national intrigue and historic revelation. Only time will tell if theyll remain safe, or if the mystery will endanger the entire family.
It was during the Depression, with the Republican regime in disarray, that Franklin D. Roosevelt came into office with a mandate to change the role of government. His was one of the presidencies—like Jefferson's, Jackson's, and Lincoln's before his, and Reagan's after—that transformed the political system. But what of the successors of such transformative figures, those members and supporters of the new regime who are expected to carry forward the policies and politics of those they replace? It is these "heir apparent" presidents, impossibly tasked with backward-looking progress, that Donald Zinman considers in this incisive look at the curious trajectories of political power. An heir apparent president, in Zinman's analysis, can be successful but will struggle to get credit for his achievements. He must contend with the consequences of his predecessor's policies while facing a stronger opposition and sitting atop an increasingly weakened and divided party. And he will invariably alternate between three approaches to leadership: continuity, expansion, and correction. Looking in depth at James Madison, Martin Van Buren, Ulysses S. Grant (an heir apparent as the first genuine Republican to succeed Lincoln), Harry S. Truman, and George H. W. Bush, Zinman reveals how these successors of regime-changing presidents at times suffered for diverging from their predecessors' perceived policies. At times these presidents also suffered from the consequences of the policies themselves or simply from changing political circumstances. What they rarely did, as becomes painfully clear, is succeed at substantially changing the policies and politics that they inherited. It is a perilous and often thankless business, as The Heir Apparent Presidency makes abundantly clear, to follow and lead at once. Tracing the ways in which heir apparent presidents have met this challenge, this book offers rare and valuable insight into the movement of political time, and the shaping of political order.
