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In a startlingly innovative format, journalist Stephen A. Wynalda has constructed a painstakingly detailed day-by-day breakdown of president Abraham Lincoln's decisions in office—including his signing of the Homestead Act on May 20, 1862; his signing of the legislation enacting the first federal income tax on August 5, 1861; and more personal incidents like the day his eleven-year-old son, Willie, died. Revealed are Lincoln's private frustrations on September 28, 1862, as he wrote to vice president Hannibal Hamlin, "The North responds to the [Emancipation] proclamation sufficiently with breath; but breath alone kills no rebels."366 Days in the Life of Abraham Lincoln includes fascinating facts like how Lincoln hated to hunt but loved to fire guns near the unfinished Washington monument, how he was the only president to own a patent, and how he recited Scottish poetry to relieve stress. As Scottish historian Hugh Blair said, "It is from private life, from familiar, domestic, and seemingly trivial occurrences, that we most often receive light into the real character." Covering 366 days (including leap day) of Lincoln's presidency, this is a rich, exciting new perspective of our most famous president. This is a must-have edition for any historian, military history or civil war buff, or reader of biographies.Author: Stephen A. Wynalda Kindle Edition: 624 pages Kindle eBook Company: Skyhorse Publishing (2010-05-18) (2010-05-18) List Price: $29.95 Amazon Price: Amazon.com Books: US Presidency history
AN EYE OPENING PERSPECTIVE OF GEORGE W. BUSH’S PRESIDENCY! Tired of political misdirection and distortion of facts? Want real implications of administrative actions? This work uses facts to remove the conflicting and misleading information of the Bush years. It illustrates why our country got the results we did and where it is today based upon the actions of his administration. What makes this work so imperative was his tour of speeches, press conferences, and rule changes to whitewash eight years of deception and betrayal. This book offers a different perspective on some of George W. Bush’s Decision Points. A professional reviewer wrote, “It was a passionate yet professional view of his presidency. Anyone who wants to blame the current state of our nation on the current President should read this book.” Author: TFP Kindle Edition: 705 pages Kindle eBook Company: Outskirts Press, Inc. (2011-11-25) (2011-11-25) List Price: $9.99 Amazon Price: 
Packaging the Presidency, Third Edition, is now completely updated to offer the only comprehensive study of the history and effects of political advertising in the United States. Noted political critic Kathleen Hall Jamieson traces the development of presidential campaigning from early political songs and slogans through newsprint and radio, and up to the inevitable history of presidential campaigning on television from Eisenhower to Clinton. The book also covers important issues in the debate about political advertising by touching on the development of laws governing political advertising, as well as how such advertising reflects, and at the same time helps to create, the nature of the American political office. Finally, current public concerns about political advertising are addressed as Jamieson raises the topic of ads dealing mainly in images rather than issues, and of political aspirations becoming increasingly only for the rich, who can afford the enormous cost of television advertising.Author: Kathleen Hall Jamieson Kindle Edition: 608 pages Kindle eBook Company: Oxford University Press, USA (1996-04-25) (1996-04-25) List Price: $21.95 Amazon Price: 
Now you can experience history! Download this incredible app that profiles Franklin Delano Roosevelt's presidency during a critical moment in the history of the United States. With "FDR: A Crisis Presidency," history lovers are transported through incredible historic video footage, legendary speeches, and page-turning text. Download this app and let presidential history expert Matt Donnelly take you on a journey to Depression-era and wartime America under FDR. As relevant today as it was then, this is a story of a leader who tackled some of the most daunting challenges of our time. Complete with legendary speeches and rare historical footage, this Vook let's you see the faces, hearts, and minds of an entire generation. Take the journey now! Author: Matt Donnelly, Vook Kindle Edition with Audio/Video: Kindle eBook Company: Vook (2011-03-03) (2011-03-03) List Price: $6.99 Amazon Price: 
Dive deep into the Jefferson Presidency anywhere you go: on a plane, on a mountain, in a canoe, under a tree. Or grab a flashlight and read Shmoop under the covers. Shmoop's award-winning US History Guides are now available on your Kindle. Shmoop eBooks are like having a trusted, fun, chatty, expert history-tour-guide always by your side, no matter where you are (or how late it is at night).Shmoop US History Guides offer fresh analysis, timelines of important events, brief bios of key movers and shakers, jaw-dropping trivia, memorable quotes, a glossary of terms, and more. Best of all, Shmoop's analysis aims to look at a topic from multiple points of view to give you the fullest understanding. After all, "there is no history, only histories" (Karl Popper). Experts and educators from top universities, including Stanford, UC Berkeley, and Harvard, have written guides designed to engage you and to get your brain bubbling. Shmoop is here to make you a better lover (of history) and to help you make connections to other historical moments, works of literature, current events, and pop culture. These learning guides will help you sink your teeth into the past. For more information, check out http://www.shmoop.com/historyAuthor: Shmoop Kindle Edition: 56 pages Kindle eBook Company: Shmoop University, Inc. (2009-10-15) (2009-10-15) List Price: $2.95 Amazon Price: 
A candid assessment of the Kennedy presidency features revelations, details, anecdotes, and inside perspectives from Kennedy staffers, cronies, critics, and opponents concerning such events as the Bay of Pigs invasion and the civil rights movement. $25,000 ad/promo.Author: Gerald S. Strober, Deborah H. Strober Paperback: 560 pages Softcover book. Gerald S. Strober and Deborah H. Strober, Authors., First Harper Perennial Edition published 1994., First Edition. Total 540 pages., John F. Kennedy. Company: Perennial (1994-04) ISBN: 0060922389 List Price: $15.00 Amazon Price: $39.24 Used Price: $0.95 
Forty-three Americans have held the job of President of the United States. Each has a story, be it one of vision, accomplishment, conflict, scandal, triumph, or tragedy. And each story is at the center of the national story, a part of what we all experience. History buffs find endless fascination – and a greater understanding of America today – in the colorful personalities and momentous events that surround the Oval Office.If you want the complete take on U. S. presidents, from George Washington to George W. Bush, you’ll appreciate U. S. Presidents for Dummies. Written in a lively style by a history professor at the University of Texas, this fun guidebook of chief executives is packed with information, factoids, and memorable quotes. Inside, you’ll find out which president:Promised to only serve one term, and kept his word!Was a great person but a rotten presidentCampaigned on nothing but image – in the n ineteenth century!May be the most underrated president in historyHad his own distributor bringing liquor to the White House – during Prohibition!Appointed the first female cabinet memberPushed through the first civil rights legislation after the end of the Civil WarSaid of himself, “I am a man of limited talents from a small town. I don’t seem to grasp that I am president” U. S. Presidents for Dummies offers a wealth of knowledge on what it takes to be the leader of the free world, and who has stepped up to the challenge. Dividing the ranks of presidents into chronological groups for a broader, historical understanding of the office, this book discusses:The birth and evolution of the presidencyIneffective presidentsForgettable presidentsWorking up to the Civil WarReconstruction presidentsBecoming a force in the worldInstituting the Imperial PresidencyToday’s changing dynamics and the Presidency A treasury of information, this book features an easy-to-comprehend style and sharp historical analysis. Sidebars, photos, timelines, and best and worst lists make U. S. Presidents for Dummies a historical blast to read and a must-have for understanding the state of both yesterday’s and today’s union. 
A central player's account of the clash between the rule of law and the necessity of defending America. Jack Goldsmith's duty as head of the Office of Legal Counsel was to advise President Bush what he could and could not do...legally. Goldsmith took the job in October 2003 and began to review the work of his predecessors. Their opinions were the legal framework governing the conduct of the military and intelligence agencies in the war on terror, and he found many—especially those regulating the treatment and interrogation of prisoners—that were deeply flawed.Goldsmith is a conservative lawyer who understands the imperative of averting another 9/11. But his unflinching insistence that we abide by the law put him on a collision course with powerful figures in the administration. Goldsmith's fascinating analysis of parallel legal crises in the Lincoln and Roosevelt administrations shows why Bush's apparent indifference to human rights has damaged his presidency and, perhaps, his standing in history.Author: Jack Goldsmith Kindle Edition: 287 pages Kindle eBook Company: W. W. Norton & Company (2007-09-17) (2007-09-17) List Price: $25.95 Amazon Price: 
Reelection, particularly of the president, is our worst national disaster and the second-term psychosis serves as the very nexus-point of corruption. All manner of corruption, legislative trickery, and economic mischief is driven by the view toward the second term.Author: Kent Welton Kindle Edition: 242 pages Kindle eBook Company: Pandit Press (2009-04-08) (2009-04-08) List Price: $6.00 Amazon Price: 
This book was written as a companion to the author s previous work, President Who? Forgotten Founders. The work is divided into four chapters. The first chapter provides a brief history of the Presidencies of the Continental Congress and United States in Congress Assembled. The second chapter focuses on the Continental Congress Presidents with a sampling of author s traveling exhibit: Forgotten Founders - Historic Documents of Freedom. The third chapter covers the current $1.00 Presidential coin controversy, Klos v. Paulson with crisp biographies on the Constitution of 1777 Presidents. This chapter also unveils the coins the author proposed to Secretary of the Treasury Paulson representing the Presidents of the United States in Congress Assembled on the obverse with the reverse capturing ten different Capitol buildings of their presidencies. The fourth and final chapter is entitled What Would Peyton Do? and it is a clever chapter challenging the reader to speculate, along with the author, on what the founders would do? as 21st Century U.S. Presidents.Author: Stanley L. Klos Paperback: 218 pages Company: ROI.us Corporation (2008-08-18) ISBN: 0975262785 List Price: Amazon Price: Used Price: $149.95 
Forrest McDonald is widely recognized as one of our most respected and challenging commentators on the Constitution and the American founding. Writing at the height of his powers as an intellectual historian, he now applies his considerable talents to a study of another venerable institution--the American presidency. McDonald explores how and why the presidency has evolved into such a complex and powerful institution, unlike any other in the world. He chronicles the presidency's creation, implementation, and evolution and explains why it's still working today despite its many perceived afflictions. Along the way, he provides trenchant commentary on the Constitutional Convention, ratification debates, presidencies of Washington and Jefferson, presidential administration and leadership, presidential--congressional conflicts, the president as chief architect of foreign policy, and the president as myth and symbol. He also analyzes the enormous gap between what we've come to expect of presidents and what they can reasonably hope to accomplish. Ambitious, comprehensive, and engaging, this is the best single-volume study of an institution that has become troubled and somewhat troublesome yet, in McDonald's words, "has been responsible for less harm and more good than perhaps any other secular institution in history." It will make a fine and necessary companion for understanding the presidency as it moves into its third century. Amazon.com Books: US Presidency biography
The rough-hewn general who rose to the nation’s highest office, and whose presidency witnessed the first political skirmishes that would lead to the Civil War Zachary Taylor was a soldier’s soldier, a man who lived up to his nickname, “Old Rough and Ready.” Having risen through the ranks of the U.S. Army, he achieved his greatest success in the Mexican War, propelling him to the nation’s highest office in the election of 1848. He was the first man to have been elected president without having held a lower political office. John S. D. Eisenhower, the son of another soldier-president, shows how Taylor rose to the presidency, where he confronted the most contentious political issue of his age: slavery. The political storm reached a crescendo in 1849, when California, newly populated after the Gold Rush, applied for statehood with an anti- slavery constitution, an event that upset the delicate balance of slave and free states and pushed both sides to the brink. As the acrimonious debate intensified, Taylor stood his ground in favor of California’s admission—despite being a slaveholder himself—but in July 1850 he unexpectedly took ill, and within a week he was dead. His truncated presidency had exposed the fateful rift that would soon tear the country apart. Author: John S. D. Eisenhower Hardcover: 192 pages Company: Times Books (2008-05-27) (2008-05-27) ISBN: 0805082379 List Price: $25.00 Amazon Price: $11.86 Used Price: $8.48 
NATIONAL BESTSELLER From the Trade Paperback edition. Author: H.W. Brands Kindle Edition: 914 pages Kindle eBook Company: Anchor (2008-11-04) (2008-11-04) List Price: $19.00 Amazon Price: 
Ulysses S. Grant was the first four-star general in the history of the United States Army and the only president between Andrew Jackson and Woodrow Wilson to serve eight consecutive years in the White House. As general in chief, Grant revolutionized modern warfare. As president, he brought stability to the country after years of war and upheaval. Yet today Grant is remembered as a brilliant general but a failed president. In this comprehensive biography, Jean Edward Smith reconciles these conflicting assessments of Grant's life. He argues convincingly that Grant is greatly underrated as a president. Following the turmoil of Andrew Johnson's administration, Grant guided the nation through the post-Civil War era, overseeing Reconstruction in the South and enforcing the freedoms of new African-American citizens. His presidential accomplishments were as considerable as his military victories, says Smith, for the same strength of character that made him successful on the battlefield also characterized his years in the White House. 
The underappreciated presidency of the military man who won the Civil War and then had to win the peace as well As a general, Ulysses S. Grant is routinely described in glowing terms-the man who turned the tide of the Civil War, who accepted Lee's surrender at Appomattox, and who had the stomach to see the war through to final victory. But his presidency is another matter-the most common word used to characterize it is "scandal." Grant is routinely portrayed as a man out of his depth, whose trusting nature and hands-off management style opened the federal coffers to unprecedented plunder. But that caricature does not do justice to the realities of Grant's term in office, as Josiah Bunting III shows in this provocative assessment of our eighteenth president. Grant came to Washington in 1869 to lead a capital and a country still bitterly divided by four years of civil war. His predecessor, Andrew Johnson, had been impeached and nearly driven from office, and the radical Republicans in Congress were intent on imposing harsh conditions on the Southern states before allowing them back into the Union. Grant made it his priority to forge the states into a single nation, and Bunting shows that despite the troubles that characterized Grant's terms in office, he was able to accomplish this most important task-very often through the skillful use of his own popularity with the American people. Grant was indeed a military man of the highest order, and he was a better president than he is often given credit for. Author: Josiah Bunting Hardcover: 208 pages Company: Times Books (2004-09-08) (2004-08-12) ISBN: 0805069496 List Price: $23.00 Amazon Price: $10.87 Used Price: $5.39 
At the time of his death, Ulysses S. Grant was the most famous person in America, considered by most citizens to be equal in stature to George Washington and Abraham Lincoln. Yet today his monuments are rarely visited, his military reputation is overshadowed by that of Robert E. Lee, and his presidency is permanently mired at the bottom of historical rankings.In an insightful blend of biography and cultural history, Joan Waugh traces Grant's shifting national and international reputation, illuminating the role of memory in our understanding of American history. She captures a sense of what led nineteenth-century Americans to overlook Grant's obvious faults and hold him up as a critically important symbol of national reconciliation and unity. Waugh further shows that Grant's reputation and place in public memory closely parallel the rise and fall of the northern version of the Civil War story — in which the United States was the clear, morally superior victor and Grant was the emblem of that victory. After the failure of Reconstruction, the dominant Union myths about the war gave way to a southern version that emphasized a more sentimental remembrance of the honor and courage of both sides and ennobled the "Lost Cause." By the 1920s, Grant's reputation had plummeted. Most Americans today are unaware of how revered Grant was in his lifetime. Joan Waugh uncovers the reasons behind the rise and fall of his renown, underscoring as well the fluctuating memory of the Civil War itself. Author: Joan Waugh Hardcover: 384 pages Company: The University of North Carolina Press (2009-11-15) (2009-10-15) ISBN: 0807833177 List Price: $32.50 Amazon Price: $18.74 Used Price: $7.89 
First president of his generation. Second president to be impeached. Bill Clinton led the nation during eight years of unprecedented economic prosperity and peace, creating millions of new jobs, swapping deficit for surplus, and advancing his agenda of social programs. Yet he was riddled with scandal. This encyclopedia of more than 230 alphabetical entries covers all the major events, issues, and personalities of the Clinton administration, including full treatments of his impeachment, Whitewater, Travelgate, Monica, key members of his administration, Congressional opponents, foreign and domestic policy, elections, laws, terms and catchphrases, and national and foreign events that impacted Clinton's presidency. This balanced account is a perfect reference for students of, detractors from, and supporters of, William Jefferson Clinton. Among the domestic issues covered are health care reform, gays in the military, abortion, gun control, and welfare reform. Also included are the many foreign policy issues Clinton dealt with such as Bosnia, Northern Ireland, and the Middle East. Numerous charts, tables, and graphs provide vital statistical information about legislation, the economy, federal spending, election returns, and crime during the Clinton years. A chronology of events and many photos accompany the text. Thorough cross-referencing will aid researchers, as will bibliographies of print and Internet sources following each entry. Author: Peter B. Levy Hardcover: 416 pages Company: Greenwood (2001-11-30) ISBN: 031331294X List Price: $87.95 Amazon Price: $25.55 Used Price: $1.94
AN EYE OPENING PERSPECTIVE OF GEORGE W. BUSH’S PRESIDENCY! Tired of political misdirection and distortion of facts? Want real implications of administrative actions? This work uses facts to remove the conflicting and misleading information of the Bush years. It illustrates why our country got the results we did and where it is today based upon the actions of his administration. What makes this work so imperative was his tour of speeches, press conferences, and rule changes to whitewash eight years of deception and betrayal. This book offers a different perspective on some of George W. Bush’s Decision Points. A professional reviewer wrote, “It was a passionate yet professional view of his presidency. Anyone who wants to blame the current state of our nation on the current President should read this book.” Author: TFP Kindle Edition: 705 pages Kindle eBook Company: Outskirts Press, Inc. (2011-11-25) (2011-11-25) List Price: $9.99 Amazon Price: 
Fascinating Facs about Each and Every President, including an American History Timeline and Portraits from the Smithsonian Institution! This perennial childhood favorite combines presidential portraits from the National Portrait Gallery with fun, engrossing text written by two historians. A continuous timeline flowing through the book notes milestones in literature, invention, and politics within each president's tenure. Author: Todd Davis, Marc Frey Hardcover: 56 pages Company: Courage Books (2001-03-12) ISBN: 0762408499 List Price: $9.98 Amazon Price: $0.01 Used Price: $0.01 
An icon of the twentieth century, Ronald Reagan has earned a place among the most popular and successful U.S. presidents. In this compelling firsthand account of Reagan's presidency, Peter J. Wallison, former White House Counsel to President Reagan, argues that Reagan took office with a fully developed public philosophy and strategy for governing that was unique among modern presidents. "I am not a great man," Reagan once said, "just committed to great ideas." Wallison shows how Reagan's unyielding attachment to certain key ideas-communicated through his speeches-created a cohesive administration and revived the spirit of the nation. In Ronald Reagan, Wallison describes what it was like to be on Reagan's White House staff and how Reagan's attachment to principle produced both the best and worst days of his presidency. Updated with a new epilogue. Author: Peter Wallison Paperback: 336 pages ISBN13: 9780813390475, Condition: New, Notes: BRAND NEW FROM PUBLISHER! 100% Satisfaction Guarantee. Tracking provided on most orders. Buy with Confidence! Millions of books sold! Company: Basic Books (2004-04-14) (2004-04-13) ISBN: 0813390478 List Price: $16.95 Amazon Price: $3.95 Used Price: $0.03 
A factual look at all our chief executives, from George Washington to our current president.Author: William DeGregorio Paperback: 848 pages Company: Barricade Books (2005-07-25) ISBN: 1569802866 List Price: $21.00 Amazon Price: $113.58 Used Price: $3.82 |
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