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The American presidency / edited by Alan Brinkley and Davis Dyer.
LIBRA E176.1 .A653 2004
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Presidents--United States--History.
- Presidents.
- United States.
- History.
- Political leadership--United States--History.
- Political leadership.
- Executive power--United States--History.
- Executive power.
- Presidents--United States--Biography.
- United States--Politics and government.
- Politics and government.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xv, 572 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Boston : Houghton Mifflin Co., 2004.
- Summary:
- Coupling high-quality scholarship with accessibility. "The American Presidency is a handy, affordable, text-only paperback edition of the popular reference work "The Reader's Companion to the American Presidency. An indispensable resource for the curious reader and the serious historian alike. "The American Presidency showcases some of the most provocative interpretive history being written today. Shedding light on the hubris, struggles, and brilliance of our nation's leaders, this edition will be revised and updated, including a new essay on George W. Bush. "Readable and enlightening" ("Houston Chronicle), the previous hardcover edition of this book has been unanimously praised for its incisive survey of presidential administrations. Written by such eminent historians as Eric Foner, Joyce Appleby James Henretta, Alan Taylor, Jean Baker, Robert Dallek, Drew McCoy, and Karen Orren, "the concise, always smart essays make [this] a thorough history of the institution" ("Wall Street Journal).
- Contents:
- George Washington 1
- John Adams 20
- Thomas Jefferson 33
- James Madison 48
- James Monroe 59
- John Quincy Adams 73
- Andrew Jackson 82
- Martin Van Buren 103
- William Henry Harrison 115
- John Tyler 121
- James K. Polk 129
- Zachary Taylor 139
- Millard Fillmore 145
- Franklin Pierce 152
- James Buchanan 163
- Abraham Lincoln 173
- Andrew Johnson 189
- Ulysses S. Grant 200
- Rutherford B. Hayes 215
- James A. Garfield 224
- Chester Arthur 233
- Grover Cleveland 240
- Benjamin Harrison 250
- William McKinley 257
- Theodore Roosevelt 268
- William Howard Taft 285
- Woodrow Wilson 297
- Warren G. Harding 314
- Calvin Coolidge 323
- Herbert Hoover 332
- Franklin D. Roosevelt 344
- Harry S. Truman 365
- Dwight D. Eisenhower 381
- John F. Kennedy 397
- Lyndon B. Johnson 409
- Richard Nixon 425
- Gerald Ford 443
- Jimmy Carter 455
- Ronald Reagan 467
- George H. W. Bush 487
- Bill Clinton 499
- George W. Bush 530.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [547]-553) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0618382739
- OCLC:
- 53007114
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