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The Complete Book of US Presidents, Fourth Edition

Bill Yenne

Author : Bill Yenne
Publisher : Crestline Books
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2021-03-02
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780785839231

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Discover the history and personal stories of 46 US Presidents in this beautifully illustrated volume. From the first president, George Washington, to the forty-sixth, Joe Biden, the United States has seen a host of extraordinary men take office. Their stories are all included in this fourth edition of The Complete Book of US Presidents by journalist and historian Bill Yenne. This book features short, biographical essays about the lives of 46 presidents, jam-packed with unusual details and commentary on the significant roles each commander-in-chief played in the shaping of the United States and its relations with the world. Lavishly illustrated, including the presidents' official White House portraits, sidebars about each and every vice president and first lady, and intriguing anecdotes, this book is accessible to a broad audience and will captivate any history lover. The Complete Book of US Presidents is an expansive collection that reflects on America's rich presidential history, telling the story of a nation through the biographies of some of its greatest political leaders.

The American President

William E. Leuchtenburg

Author : William E. Leuchtenburg
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 904 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2015-11-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199721108

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The American President is an enthralling account of American presidential actions from the assassination of William McKinley in 1901 to Bill Clinton's last night in office in January 2001. William Leuchtenburg, one of the great presidential historians of the century, portrays each of the presidents in a chronicle sparkling with anecdote and wit. Leuchtenburg offers a nuanced assessment of their conduct in office, preoccupations, and temperament. His book presents countless moments of high drama: FDR hurling defiance at the "economic royalists" who exploited the poor; ratcheting tension for JFK as Soviet vessels approach an American naval blockade; a grievously wounded Reagan joking with nurses while fighting for his life. This book charts the enormous growth of presidential power from its lowly state in the late nineteenth century to the imperial presidency of the twentieth. That striking change was manifested both at home in periods of progressive reform and abroad, notably in two world wars, Vietnam, and the war on terror. Leuchtenburg sheds light on presidents battling with contradictory forces. Caught between maintaining their reputation and executing their goals, many practiced deceits that shape their image today. But he also reveals how the country's leaders pulled off magnificent achievements worthy of the nation's pride.

American Presidents and the Middle East

George Lenczowski

Author : George Lenczowski
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Middle East
ISBN : STANFORD:36105081957495

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This is a study of the role the presidents of the United States have played in the formulation of a American policies toward the Middle East, a region of key strategic importance abounding in complex international conflicts and revolutionary changes.

The Black President

Claude A. Clegg III

Author : Claude A. Clegg III
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 697 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2021-10-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781421441894

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The first sweeping, legacy-defining history of the entire Obama presidency. Finalist of the PROSE Award for Best Book in Biography & Autobiography by the Association of American Publishers In The Black President, the first interpretative, grand-narrative history of Barack Obama's presidency in its entirety, Claude A. Clegg III situates the former president in his dynamic, inspirational, yet contentious political context. He captures the America that made Obama's White House years possible, while insightfully rendering the America that resolutely resisted the idea of a Black chief executive, thus making conceivable the ascent of the most unlikely of his successors. In elucidating the Obama moment in American politics and culture, this book is also, at its core, a sweeping exploration of the Obama presidency's historical environment, impact, and meaning for African Americans—the tens of millions of people from every walk of life who collectively were his staunchest group of supporters and who most starkly experienced both the euphoric triumphs and dispiriting shortcomings of his years in office. In Obama's own words, his White House years were "the best of times and worst of times" for Black America. Clegg is vitally concerned with the veracity of this claim, along with how Obama engaged the aspirations, struggles, and disappointments of his most loyal constituency and how representative segments of Black America engaged, experienced, and interpreted his historic presidency. Clegg draws on an expansive archive of materials, including government records and reports, interviews, speeches, memoirs, and insider accounts, in order to examine Obama's complicated upbringing and early political ambitions, his delicate navigation of matters of race, the nature and impacts of his administration's policies and politics, the inspired but also carefully choreographed symbolism of his presidency (and Michelle Obama's role), and the spectrum of allies and enemies that he made along the way. The successes and the aspirations of the Obama era, Clegg argues, are explicitly connected to our current racist, toxic political discourse. Combining lively prose with a balanced, nonpartisan portrait of Obama's successes and failures, The Black President will be required reading not only for historians, politics junkies, and Obama fans but also for anyone seeking to understand America's contemporary struggles with inequality, prejudice, and fear.

The Complete Book of U.S. Presidents

William A. DeGregorio

Author : William A. DeGregorio
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 788 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Presidents
ISBN : 0942637925

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A ready reference guide to the presidents of the United States, from George Washington through Bill Clinton.

The Autobiography of Calvin Coolidge

Calvin Coolidge

Author : Calvin Coolidge
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2023-10-17
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781684516865

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"It was my hope to produce a book that would not only have some historical interest, but would be useful for those in public life, in educational work, in preparation for citizenship, and would be especially a book that parents would wish their children to read." —President Calvin Coolidge on his autobiography Today Americans of all backgrounds are on the hunt for a different political model. In fact, such a model awaits them, if only they turn their eyes to their own past . . . to America's thirtieth president, Calvin Coolidge. Coolidge's masterful autobiography offers urgent lessons for our age of exploding debt, increasingly centralized power, and fierce partisan division. This expanded and annotated volume, edited by Coolidge biographer Amity Shlaes and authorized by the Coolidge family, is the definitive edition of the text that presidential historian Craig Fehrman calls "the forgotten classic of presidential writing." To read this volume is to understand the tragic extent to which historians underrate President Coolidge. The Coolidge who emerges in these pages is a model of character, principle, and humility—rare qualities in Washington, then as now. A man of great faith, Coolidge told Americans: "Men do not make laws. They do but discover them." Although he emphasized economics, Coolidge insisted on the importance of "things of the spirit." At the height of his popularity, he chose not to run again when his reelection was all but assured. In this autobiography, Coolidge explains his mindset: "It is a great advantage to a President, and a major source of safety to the country, for him to know that he is not a great man." For all his modesty, Coolidge left an expansive legacy—one we would do well to study today. Shlaes and coeditor Matthew Denhart draw out the lessons from Coolidge's life and career in an enlightening introduction and annotations to Coolidge's text. To aid Coolidge scholars young and old, the editors have also assembled nearly three dozen photographs, several of Coolidge's greatest speeches, a timeline of Coolidge's life, and afterwords by former Vermont governor James H. Douglas and two of Coolidge's great-grandchildren, Jennifer Coolidge Harville and Christopher Coolidge Jeter. This autobiography combats the myths about one of our most misunderstood presidents. It also shows us how much we still have to learn from Calvin Coolidge.

The Presidents

Brian Lamb,Susan Swain

Author : Brian Lamb,Susan Swain
Publisher : PublicAffairs
Page : 626 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2019-04-23
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781541774377

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The complete rankings of our best -- and worst -- presidents, based on C-SPAN's much-cited Historians Surveys of Presidential Leadership. Over a period of decades, C-SPAN has surveyed leading historians on the best and worst of America's presidents across a variety of categories -- their ability to persuade the public, their leadership skills, their moral authority, and more. The crucible of the presidency has forged some of the very best and very worst leaders in our national history, along with everyone in between. Based on interviews conducted over the years with a variety of presidential biographers, this book provides not just a complete ranking of our presidents, but stories and analyses that capture the character of the men who held the office. From Abraham Lincoln's political savvy and rhetorical gifts to James Buchanan's indecisiveness, this book teaches much about what makes a great leader -- and what does not. As America looks ahead to our next election, this book offers perspective and criteria to help us choose our next leader wisely.

Accidental Presidents

Jared Cohen

Author : Jared Cohen
Publisher : Simon & Schuster
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2020-01-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781501109836

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This New York Times bestselling “deep dive into the terms of eight former presidents is chock-full of political hijinks—and déjà vu” (Vanity Fair) and provides a fascinating look at the men who came to the office without being elected to it, showing how each affected the nation and world. The strength and prestige of the American presidency has waxed and waned since George Washington. Eight men have succeeded to the presidency when the incumbent died in office. In one way or another they vastly changed our history. Only Theodore Roosevelt would have been elected in his own right. Only TR, Truman, Coolidge, and LBJ were re-elected. John Tyler succeeded William Henry Harrison who died 30 days into his term. He was kicked out of his party and became the first president threatened with impeachment. Millard Fillmore succeeded esteemed General Zachary Taylor. He immediately sacked the entire cabinet and delayed an inevitable Civil War by standing with Henry Clay’s compromise of 1850. Andrew Johnson, who succeeded our greatest president, sided with remnants of the Confederacy in Reconstruction. Chester Arthur, the embodiment of the spoils system, was so reviled as James Garfield’s successor that he had to defend himself against plotting Garfield’s assassination; but he reformed the civil service. Theodore Roosevelt broke up the trusts. Calvin Coolidge silently cooled down the Harding scandals and preserved the White House for the Republican Herbert Hoover and the Great Depression. Harry Truman surprised everybody when he succeeded the great FDR and proved an able and accomplished president. Lyndon B. Johnson was named to deliver Texas electorally. He led the nation forward on Civil Rights but failed on Vietnam. Accidental Presidents shows that “history unfolds in death as well as in life” (The Wall Street Journal) and adds immeasurably to our understanding of the power and limits of the American presidency in critical times.

American Heritage Illustrated History of the Presidents

Michael R. Beschloss

Author : Michael R. Beschloss
Publisher : Crown
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : WISC:89073097206

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Every day our lives are affected by what the American president does. But there are some things we cannot know about presidents until many years after they leave office -- what really went on behind the scenes and how great their leadership was. That is the mission of this book. American Heritage is known and trusted for its standard-bearing single-volume histories. Its various editions on the American Civil War and World War II, edited by such distinguished scholars as James McPherson and Stephen Ambrose, are recognized as classics and have together sold more than a million copies. The American Heritage(R) Illustrated History of the Presidents is newly available in a richly illustrated and completely revised edition, with the preeminent presidential historian Michael Beschloss as general editor. This new book offers fresh and penetrating portraits of all forty-two presidencies, as rendered by some of America's most distinguished scholars. From George Washington's reluctant oath-taking through Bill Clinton's turbulent leadership, we view forty-one ambitious and fallible men through the new lens of the twenty-first century. Where did they succeed? Where did they fail? What do we know now that we could not have known at the time? The American Heritage(R) Illustrated History of the Presidents offers a biographical profile of each man and a full account of the issues and events that shaped each presidency, with pathbreaking new verdicts on the modern presidents -- Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan, Bush, and Clinton. In the tradition of other American Heritage volumes, the book will serve as an indispensable reference guide for many years to come, for both seasoned observers andstudents just learning about the presidency. American Heritage is a trademark of American Heritage Inc. Its use is pursuant to a license agreement.

The President's Book of Secrets

David Priess

Author : David Priess
Publisher : PublicAffairs
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2016-03-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781610395960

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Every president has had a unique and complicated relationship with the intelligence community. While some have been coolly distant, even adversarial, others have found their intelligence agencies to be among the most valuable instruments of policy and power. Since John F. Kennedy's presidency, this relationship has been distilled into a personalized daily report: a short summary of what the intelligence apparatus considers the most crucial information for the president to know that day about global threats and opportunities. This top–secret document is known as the President's Daily Brief, or, within national security circles, simply “the Book.” Presidents have spent anywhere from a few moments (Richard Nixon) to a healthy part of their day (George W. Bush) consumed by its contents; some (Bill Clinton and George H. W. Bush) consider it far and away the most important document they saw on a regular basis while commander in chief. The details of most PDBs are highly classified, and will remain so for many years. But the process by which the intelligence community develops and presents the Book is a fascinating look into the operation of power at the highest levels. David Priess, a former intelligence officer and daily briefer, has interviewed every living president and vice president as well as more than one hundred others intimately involved with the production and delivery of the president's book of secrets. He offers an unprecedented window into the decision making of every president from Kennedy to Obama, with many character–rich stories revealed here for the first time.

The Presidents of the United States of America

Frank Freidel

Author : Frank Freidel
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Presidents
ISBN : IND:30000068303217

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Portraits and brief lives of the first forty presidents of the United States.

US Presidents and the Destruction of the Native American Nations

Michael A. Genovese,Alysa Landry

Author : Michael A. Genovese,Alysa Landry
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2021-10-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783030835743

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US Presidents and the Destruction of the Native American Nations by Michael A. Genovese,Alysa Landry Pdf

This book examines how the United States government, through the lens of presidential leadership, has tried to come to grips with the many and complex issues pertaining to relations with Indigenous peoples, who occupied the land long before the Europeans arrived. The historical relationship between the US government and Native American communities reflects many of the core contradictions and difficulties the new nation faced as it tried to establish itself as a legitimate government and fend off rival European powers, including separation of powers, the role of Westward expansion and Manifest Destiny, and the relationship between diplomacy and war in the making of the United States. The authors’ analysis touches on all US presidents from George Washington to Donald Trump, with sections devoted to each president. Ultimately, they consider what historical and contemporary relations between the government and native peoples reveal about who we are and how we operate as a nation.

Hollywood's White House

Peter C. Rollins,John E. O'Connor

Author : Peter C. Rollins,John E. O'Connor
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 458 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2010-09-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9780813127927

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Hollywood's White House by Peter C. Rollins,John E. O'Connor Pdf

" Winner of the 2003 Ray and Pat Browne Book Award, given by the Popular Culture Association The contributors to Hollywood's White House examine the historical accuracy of these presidential depictions, illuminate their influence, and uncover how they reflect the concerns of their times and the social and political visions of the filmmakers. The volume, which includes a comprehensive filmography and a bibliography, is ideal for historians and film enthusiasts.

The World Book of America's Presidents

Anonim

Author : Anonim
Publisher : World Book
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0716636980

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This two-volume set examines the United States presidency and its historical importance in rich detail.

The Presidents of the United States of America

Frank Freidel,White House Historical Association

Author : Frank Freidel,White House Historical Association
Publisher : White House Historical Assn
Page : 87 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Presidents
ISBN : PURD:32754061309617

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The Presidents of the United States of America by Frank Freidel,White House Historical Association Pdf

Single-page biographies with pictures of the 39 Presidents.

America S Presidents

The Complete Book of US Presidents, Fourth Edition by Bill Yenne Pdf

The American President by William E. Leuchtenburg Pdf

American Presidents and the Middle East by George Lenczowski Pdf

The Black President by Claude A. Clegg III Pdf

The Complete Book of U.S. Presidents by William A. DeGregorio Pdf

The Autobiography of Calvin Coolidge by Calvin Coolidge Pdf

The Presidents by Brian Lamb,Susan Swain Pdf

Accidental Presidents by Jared Cohen Pdf

American Heritage Illustrated History of the Presidents by Michael R. Beschloss Pdf

The President's Book of Secrets by David Priess Pdf

The Presidents of the United States of America by Frank Freidel Pdf

US Presidents and the Destruction of the Native American Nations by Michael A. Genovese,Alysa Landry Pdf

Hollywood's White House by Peter C. Rollins,John E. O'Connor Pdf

The World Book of America's Presidents by Anonim Pdf

The Presidents of the United States of America by Frank Freidel,White House Historical Association Pdf

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