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Author : John Robert Greene
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:49015002199959
"Riveting from start to finish". -- Herbert S. Parmet, author of Richard Nixon and His America.
Author : Richard Norton Smith
Publisher : Briscoe Ctr for Amer History Ut-Austin
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2007-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015069971680
A fascinating, behind-the-scenes documentary record of Gerald Ford's presidency by Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer David Hume Kennerly.
Author : Graeme Stewart Mount,Mark Gauthier
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015064698577
When asked why he pardoned Nixon, Ford simply replied "it was the right thing to do."
Author : James Cannon
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 513 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2013-04-16
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780472029464
“Not since Harry Truman succeeded Franklin D. Roosevelt twenty-nine years earlier had the American people known so little about a man who had stepped forward from obscurity to take the oath of office as President of the United States.” —from Chapter 4 This is a comprehensive narrative account of the life of Gerald Ford written by one of his closest advisers, James Cannon. Written with unique insight and benefiting from personal interviews with President Ford in his last years, Gerald R. Ford: An Honorable Lifeis James Cannon’s final look at the simple and honest man from the Midwest.
Author : Gerald R. Ford
Publisher : Arbor House Publishing
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : STANFORD:36105038295197
The former President's favorite funny stories and anecdotes are accompanied by political cartoons and political humor by Art Buchwald, Chevy Chase, Mark Russell, and Bob Orben, as well as sharp-witted policians.
Author : Donald Rumsfeld
Publisher : Free Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2019-06-11
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781501172946
“A personal look behind the scenes” (Publishers Weekly) of the presidency of Gerald Ford as seen through the eyes of Donald Rumsfeld—New York Times bestselling author and Ford’s former Secretary of Defense, Chief of Staff, and longtime personal confidant. In the wake of Richard Nixon’s Watergate scandal, it seemed the United States was coming apart. America had experienced a decade of horrifying assassinations; the unprecedented resignation of first a vice president and then a president of the United States; intense cultural and social change; and a new mood of cynicism sweeping the country—a mood that, in some ways, lingers today. Into that divided atmosphere stepped an unexpected, unelected, and largely unknown American—Gerald R. Ford. In contrast to every other individual who had ever occupied the Oval Office, he had never appeared on any ballot either for the presidency or the vice presidency. Ford simply and humbly performed his duty to the best of his considerable ability. By the end of his 895 days as president, he would in fact have restored balance to our country, steadied the ship of state, and led his fellow Americans out of the national trauma of Watergate. And yet, Gerald Ford remains one of the least studied and least understood individuals to have held the office of the President of the United States. In turn, his legacy also remains severely underappreciated. In When the Center Held, Ford’s Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld candidly shares his personal observations of the man himself, providing a sweeping examination of his crucial years in office. It is a rare and fascinating look behind the closed doors of the Oval Office, including never-before-seen photos, memos, and anecdotes, from a unique insider’s perspective—“engrossing and informative” (Kirkus Reviews) reading for any fan of presidential history.
Author : Lindsey McDivitt
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1534110623
"When Gerald Ford became president, Americans were ready for an honest, hardworking politician. He was trustworthy, cooperative, and cared deeply about all Americans. His life, tougher than some and filled with character-building lessons, had prepared him for the job. Backmatter includes a letter from the Ford family and a timeline"--
Author : Richard Norton Smith
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 1366 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2023-04-11
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780062684189
“Richard Norton Smith had brought a lifetime of wisdom, insight, and storytelling verve to the life of a consequential president—Gerald R. Ford. Ford’s is a very American life, and Smith has charted its vicissitudes and import with great grace and illuminating perspective. A marvelous achievement!” -- Jon Meacham From the preeminent presidential scholar and acclaimed biographer of historical figures including George Washington, Herbert Hoover, and Nelson Rockefeller comes this eye-opening life of Gerald R. Ford, whose presidency arguably set the course for post-liberal America and a post-Cold War world. For many Americans, President Gerald Ford was the genial accident of history who controversially pardoned his Watergate-tarnished predecessor, presided over the fall of Saigon, and became a punching bag on Saturday Night Live. Yet as Richard Norton Smith reveals in a book full of surprises, Ford was an underrated leader whose tough decisions and personal decency look better with the passage of time. Drawing on hundreds of interviews and thousands of documents, Smith recreates Ford’s hardscrabble childhood in Michigan, his early anti-establishment politics and lifelong love affair with the former Betty Bloomer, whose impact on American culture he predicted would outrank his own. As president, Ford guided the nation through its worst Constitutional crisis since the Civil War and broke the back of the most severe economic downturn since the Great Depression—accomplishing both with little fanfare or credit (at least until 2001 when the JFK Library gave him its prestigious Profile in Courage Award in belated recognition of the Nixon pardon). Less coda than curtain raiser, Ford's administration bridged the Republican pragmatism of Eisenhower and Nixon and the more doctrinaire conservatism of Ronald Reagan. His introduction of economic deregulation would transform the American economy, while his embrace of the Helsinki Accords hastened the collapse of the Soviet Union. Illustrated with sixteen pages of black-and-white photos, this definitive biography, a decade in the making, will change history’s views of a man whose warning about presidential arrogance (“God help the country”) is more relevant than ever.
Author : Douglas Brinkley
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2007-02-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1429933410
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.
Author : Kenneth W. Thompson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : STANFORD:36105038454984
Author : Mary Mueller Winget
Publisher : Twenty-First Century Books
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2007-01-01
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780822588047
In the aftermath of the Watergate scandal, then Vice President Gerald Ford became the first person to succeed a president who had resigned from office. Although Ford’s presidency lasted only three years, he worked diligently to heal a country from war, inflation, and controversy. Ford began a career serving his country in World War II, eventually becoming a lieutenant commander in the Navy. In 1948 he was elected to the United States Congress, where he served with distinction for the next 25 years. During the Watergate investigations in 1973, the vice president resigned and Ford stepped into that office. When President Richard Nixon resigned a short time later, Ford became the first president that was not officially elected by the country. Ford is largely credited with restoring the country’s faith in office after a tumultuous decade.
Author : United States. President (1974-1977 : Ford)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1142 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Presidents
ISBN : STANFORD:36105009881611
Author : James M. Cannon
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 532 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0472084828
A biography of President Gerald Ford by one of his closest advisers
Author : Jerald F. TerHorst
Publisher : New York : Third Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015000534647
Author : Gerald R. Ford
Publisher : HarperCollins Publishers
Page : 498 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : STANFORD:36105035502439
Autobiography of a former President of the United States, detailing both his personal life and career.
