Author : Bud Vestal
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Presidents
ISBN : 0207132089
Jerry Ford, Up Close
Bud Vestal
Jerry Ford Up Close
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Jerry Ford, Up Close
Bud Vestal
Author : Bud Vestal
Publisher : New York : Coward, McCann & Geoghegan
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Presidents
ISBN : 0698106067
Jerry Ford, Up Close by Bud Vestal Pdf
Young Jerry Ford
Hendrik Booraem
Author : Hendrik Booraem
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2013-05-22
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780802869425
Young Jerry Ford by Hendrik Booraem Pdf
An account of the early life of Gerald R. Ford, up through high school.
All the Presidents' Women
John M. Berecz, Ph.D.
Author : John M. Berecz, Ph.D.
Publisher : Green Dragon Books
Page : 618 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1999-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780893347031
All the Presidents' Women by John M. Berecz, Ph.D. Pdf
Having just completed a careful study of nearly a dozen different sexual styles, (Sexual Styles: A Guide to Understanding Your Lover's Personality, Humanics, 1998), John Berecz now applies this same analysis to the sexual lives of the last ten American Presidents; not from the viewpoint of an historian or tabloid journalist but as a clinical psychologist. From the silhouette of our personality style emerges our sexual style; through careful analysis of the personality styles and especially in their relationships with women, All The Presidents' Women probes the past and present inhabitants of the world's most powerful office - with surprising results. From President Truman through Bill Clinton, Berecz provides a fascinating investigation into the lives, loves and motivations of these influential men. With depth and clarity, All The Presidents' Women presents answers to questions such as: Did Bess Truman henpeck her husband Harry? Was Jack Kennedy a wildly promiscuous playboy, or did he just have a great capacity to love lots of women? Was Lyndon Johnson indeed crude, or was he putting on a "wild-west" sideshow? Did Nixon's paranoia extend beyond the press corps and other politicians and was he suspicious of everyone? All the Presidents' Women will engender new understanding of our presidents' personalities, their sexual styles and the women they have loved.
Character in Chief: The Personality and Character of Current and Past Presidents
John M. Berecz, Ph.D.
Author : John M. Berecz, Ph.D.
Publisher : Green Dragon Books
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2000-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780893347369
Character in Chief: The Personality and Character of Current and Past Presidents by John M. Berecz, Ph.D. Pdf
Using analytic skills honed to a sharp edge with years of psychotherapy experience, John Berecz explores such contemporary issues as "Was Nixon a wife beater?" "Was Dubya smart enough to be president?" "Is Gore too uptight to lead the free world?" "Did the 2000 election boil down to a choice between personality and competence?" Skillfully, Berecz explores the relationship between character and personality, helping the reader understand how a man with the moral integrity of Jimmy Carter could bungle the presidency and a man like Clinton, with so little character, could manage it so successfully. Drawing on thee decades of teaching and therapy, Berecz burrows beneath the surface of personality and character to reveal the real person working in the Oval Office. With penetrating insight and concise writing, the author acquaints the reader with the real people behind the pageantry of the presidency. This book clearly disentangles the contradictions of Bill Clinton's presidency by examining his split personality. Berecz explains and clinically documents Clinton's dual personalities: a sociopathic personality (Slick Willy) and a codependent personality (Baptist Billy). Resulting from Clinton's two-world childhood, these personalities are only loosely connected an operate serially to control his behavior. Like many adult children of alcoholics (ACA), Clinton seeks-by-turn-to please or to manipulate. Baptist Billy told voters "I feel your pain," and he did, but Slick Willy said he "didn't inhale," and didn't have sex with "that woman." Character in Chief is must reading for anyone interested in politics in general and the presidency in particular. With fairness and compassion Berecz will lead you to a deeper understanding of our great democracy and the people who lead it.
The Education of Gerald Ford
Hendrik Booraem V
Author : Hendrik Booraem V
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Grand Rapids (Mich.)
ISBN : 9780802869432
The Education of Gerald Ford by Hendrik Booraem V Pdf
GERALD R. FORD (1913-2006), the thirty-eighth president of the United States, grew up in Grand Rapids, Michigan, and by all accounts modeled exemplary behavior. In this biography Hendrik Booraem carefully examines that image and the reputation that Ford earned during his early years, telling about Ford's life up until his graduation from the University of Michigan in 1935. Booraem uses in-depth research of numerous written sources — plus interviews with some twenty people who personally knew Ford — to show how Jerry Ford excelled at academics and athletics, forging his way through challenges, family difficulties, economic setbacks, and more on his way to a remarkable political career. Booraem's historical portrait offers fascinating insight into the early years of this president who sought to heal the nation at a very low point in its history.
Gerald Ford and the Challenges of the 1970s
Yanek Mieczkowski
Author : Yanek Mieczkowski
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 664 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2005-04-22
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780813138473
Gerald Ford and the Challenges of the 1970s by Yanek Mieczkowski Pdf
A reappraisal of the brief presidency of Gerald Ford, called to leadership in the midst of scandal, stagflation, and an energy crisis. For many Americans, Gerald Ford evokes an image of either an unelected president who abruptly pardoned his corrupt predecessor or an accident-prone klutz spoofed on Saturday Night Live. In this book, Yanek Mieczkowski reexamines Ford’s two and a half years in office, showing that his presidency successfully confronted the most vexing crisis of the postwar era. Viewing the 1970s primarily through the lens of economic events, Mieczkowski argues that Ford’s understanding of the national economy was better than any modern president’s; that he oversaw a dramatic reduction of inflation; and that he attempted to solve the energy crisis with judicious policies. Throughout his presidency, Ford labored under the legacy of Watergate. Democrats scored landslide victories in the 1974 midterm elections, and within an anemic Republican Party, the right wing challenged Ford’s leadership, even as pundits predicted the GOP’s death. Yet Ford reinvigorated the party and fashioned a 1976 campaign strategy against Jimmy Carter that brought him from thirty points behind to a dead heat on election day. Drawing on numerous personal interviews with former President Ford, cabinet officials, and members of the Ninety-fourth Congress, Mieczkowski presents the first major work on Ford in more than a decade, combining the best of biography and presidential history to paint an intriguing portrait of a president, his times, and his legacy. “This ambitious work calls for a reexamination of the Ford presidency in light of the formidable challenges he faced upon taking office. A welcome and important addition to the literature on the Ford presidency.” ―Library Journal
Young Jerry Ford
Hendrik Booraem
Author : Hendrik Booraem
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2013-05-22
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781467438919
Young Jerry Ford by Hendrik Booraem Pdf
Rare has been the president whose life blended the individual drive that propels one to high office with the social responsibility of being an exemplary person. Gerald R. Ford (1913-2006) was one of those rare men. In this biography Hendrik Booraem traces the early life of Gerald Ford in Grand Rapids, Michigan, to his high school graduation in 1931, showing how he developed the outlook and ideals that he brought to the White House. Ford's childhood offers telling glimpses of family and school, sports and recreation, and Western Michigan life in the Jazz Age and the Depression. Amply illustrated with photos from the 1920s and '30s, Young Jerry Ford shows the 38th President of the United States in a new and colorful light.
Conservatives in an Age of Change
James A. Reichley
Author : James A. Reichley
Publisher : Brookings Institution Press
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2010-12-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0815713460
Conservatives in an Age of Change by James A. Reichley Pdf
From 1969 to 1977 the executive branch of the U.S. government was dominated by politicians and their advisers who called themselves "conservatives." In their speeches they professed belief in such values and institutions as social order, military strength, market capitalism, governmental decentralization, and traditional morality. But did these social ideas have much influence on their actual policy decisions? Or were their decisions, as some observers have argued, largely based on personal ambition, partisan interest, and pragmatic response to the day-to-day problems of government? To answer these questions, A. James Reichley examines the effects of conservative ideology on the formation of specific administration policies under the presidencies of Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford. The policies covered include the development of detente with the Soviet Union, welfare reform, revenue sharing, resistance to "busing," the imposition of wage and price controls in 1971, and governmental reorganization under Nixon; and, under Ford, adjustment to the rise of the third world and problems with detente, the drive for decontrol of oil prices, and the fight against inflation. In the last chapter Reichley considers whether the Nixon and Ford administrations can be truly described as conservative, and suggests what the future role of conservatism in American politics is likely to be.
Betty Ford
John Robert Greene
Author : John Robert Greene
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015060393694
Betty Ford by John Robert Greene Pdf
"John Robert Greene traces Betty Ford's problems and triumphs from her childhood through her husband's entire political career, including his controversial presidency, which thrust her into an unrelenting media spotlight. He then tells how she confronted her personal demons, and became a symbol of courage for women throughout the nation."--BOOK JACKET.
A Companion to Gerald R. Ford and Jimmy Carter
Scott Kaufman
Author : Scott Kaufman
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 606 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2015-12-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9781444349948
A Companion to Gerald R. Ford and Jimmy Carter by Scott Kaufman Pdf
With 30 historiographical essays by established and rising scholars, this Companion is a comprehensive picture of the presidencies and legacies of Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter. Examines important national and international events during the 1970s, as well as presidential initiatives, crises, and legislation Discusses the biography of each man before entering the White House, his legacy and work after leaving office, and the lives of Betty Ford, Rosalynn Carter, and their families Covers key themes and issues, including Watergate and the pardon of Richard Nixon, the Vietnam War, neoconservatism and the rise of the New Right, and the Iran hostage crisis Incorporates presidential, diplomatic, military, economic, social, and cultural history Uses the most recent research and newly released documents from the two Presidential Libraries and the State Department
Dit is Jerry Ford
B. Vestal,Ben van Duijn
Author : B. Vestal,Ben van Duijn
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9060574729
Dit is Jerry Ford by B. Vestal,Ben van Duijn Pdf
American Voices
Bernard K. Duffy,Richard Leeman
Author : Bernard K. Duffy,Richard Leeman
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 513 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2005-08-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780313061752
American Voices by Bernard K. Duffy,Richard Leeman Pdf
Contemporary public speaking remains an important part of our national life and a substantial force in shaping current events. Many of America's most important moments and issues, such as wars, scandals, election campaigns, September 11, 2001, have been defined by oratory. Here, over 50 essays cover a substantial and interesting group of major American social, political, economic, and cultural figures from the 1960s to the present. Each entry explains the biographical forces that shaped a speaker and his or her rhetorical approach, focuses mainly on a discussion of the orator's major speeches within the context of historical events, and concludes with an appraisal of the speaker and his or her contribution to American political and social life. All entries incorporate chronologies of major speeches, bibliographies including primary sources, biographies, and critical studies and archival collections or Web sites appropriate for student research. Entries include high profile individuals such as: John D. Ashcroft, Elizabeth Dole, Jerry Falwell, Anita Hill, Ralph Nader, Ronald Reagan, Janet Reno, Gloria Steinem, Malcolm X; and many others. Excerpts of major speeches and sidebars complement the text. Ideal for researchers and students in public speaking classes, American history classes, American politics classes, contemporary public address classes, and rhetorical theory/criticism classes.
Ambition, Pragmatism, and Party
Scott Kaufman
Author : Scott Kaufman
Publisher : University Press of Kansas
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2017-12-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780700625000
Ambition, Pragmatism, and Party by Scott Kaufman Pdf
Within eight turbulent months in 1974 Gerald Ford went from the United States House of Representatives, where he was the minority leader, to the White House as the country's first and only unelected president. His unprecedented rise to power, after Richard Nixon's equally unprecedented fall, has garnered the lion's share of scholarly attention devoted to America's thirty-eighth president. But Gerald Ford's (1913–2006) life and career in and out of Washington spanned nearly the entire twentieth century. Ambition, Pragmatism, and Party captures for the first time the full scope of Ford's long and remarkable political life. The man who emerges from these pages is keenly ambitious, determined to climb the political ladder in Washington, and loyal to his party but not a political ideologue. Drawing on interviews with family and congressional and administrative officials, presidential historian Scott Kaufman traces Ford's path from a Depression-era childhood through service in World War II to entry into Congress shortly after the Cold War began. He delves deeply into the workings of Congress and legislative–executive relations, offering insight into Ford's role as the House minority leader in a time of conservative insurgency in the Republican Party. Kaufman's account of the Ford presidency provides a new perspective on how human rights figured in the making of U.S. foreign policy in the Cold War era, and how environmental issues figured in the making of domestic policy. It also presents a close look at the 1976 presidential election—emphasizing the significance of image in that contest—and extensive coverage of Ford's post-presidency. In sum, Ambition, Pragmatism, and Party is the most comprehensive political biography of Gerald Ford and will become the definitive resource on the thirty-eighth president of the United States.
Gerald R. Ford
Douglas Brinkley
Author : Douglas Brinkley
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2007-02-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1429933410
Gerald R. Ford by Douglas Brinkley Pdf
The "accidental" president whose innate decency and steady hand restored the presidency after its greatest crisis When Gerald R. Ford entered the White House in August 1974, he inherited a presidency tarnished by the Watergate scandal, the economy was in a recession, the Vietnam War was drawing to a close, and he had taken office without having been elected. Most observers gave him little chance of success, especially after he pardoned Richard Nixon just a month into his presidency, an action that outraged many Americans, but which Ford thought was necessary to move the nation forward. Many people today think of Ford as a man who stumbled a lot--clumsy on his feet and in politics--but acclaimed historian Douglas Brinkley shows him to be a man of independent thought and conscience, who never allowed party loyalty to prevail over his sense of right and wrong. As a young congressman, he stood up to the isolationists in the Republican leadership, promoting a vigorous role for America in the world. Later, as House minority leader and as president, he challenged the right wing of his party, refusing to bend to their vision of confrontation with the Communist world. And after the fall of Saigon, Ford also overruled his advisers by allowing Vietnamese refugees to enter the United States, arguing that to do so was the humane thing to do. Brinkley draws on exclusive interviews with Ford and on previously unpublished documents (including a remarkable correspondence between Ford and Nixon stretching over four decades), fashioning a masterful reassessment of Gerald R. Ford's presidency and his underappreciated legacy to the nation.
