The presidents : 250 years of American political leadership / [edited by] Iain Dale ; illustrated by Zoom Rockman.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Dale, Iain, 1962- editor.

Rockman, Zoom, illustrator.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Presidents--United States--Biography.

Presidents.

Presidents--United States--History.

History.

Politics and government.

United States--Politics and government.

United States.

United States--History.

Genre:

Biographies.

History.

Physical Description:

xxxiii, 541 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

London : Hodder & Stoughton, 2021.

Summary:

There was a huge upsurge of global interest in US politics during the Trump presidency, culminating in the November 2020 election, the victory of the Democrat candidate Joe Biden and the subsequent, horrifying response in the storming of the US capitol. American politics is likely to remain deeply divided during the coming years, and also the focus of global attention - with Trump mobilising his base for 2024. But the transatlantic fascination with the role and office of the US President isn't new at all, and in fact reaches all the way back to the birth of the United States itself. The Presidents features essays, written by a range of academics, historians, political journalists and serving politicians, on all 46 American Presidents who have held the office over the last 230 years - from George Washington to Joe Biden. Each contributor has been carefully chosen based on expert knowledge of their subjects and personal connections, providing analysis of their subject's successes, failures and influence. Any hagiographical writing is shunned in favour of a 'warts and all' perspective on each President and the impact they've had on US politics - past, present and future.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1. George Washington 1789-97 / Mitchell Reiss

2. John Adams 1797-1801 / Daniel Forrester

3. Thomas Jefferson 1801-09 / Alvin S. Felzenberg

4. James Madison 1809-17 / Matthew Binkowski

5. James Monroe 1817-25 / Brooks Newmark

6. John Quincy Adams 1825-29 / Mark Fox

7. Andrew Jackson 1829-37 / Simon Marks

8. Martin Van Burenr 837-41 / Roifield Brown

9. William Henry Harrison 1841-41 / Emma Burnell

10. John Tyler 1841-45 / Peter Riddell

11. James K. Polk 1845-49 / Brian Klaas

12. Zachary Taylor 1849-50 / Michael Crick

13. Millard Fillmore 1850-53 / Layla Moran

14. Franklin Pierce 1853-57 / Karin J. Robinson

15. James Buchanan 1857-61 / Keith Simpson

16. Abraham Lincoln 1861-65 / Julia Langdon

17. Andrew Johnson 1865-69 / Allie Renison

18. Ulysses S. Grant 1869

77 / Bonnie Greer

19. Rutherford B. Hayes 1877-81 / Robert Waller

20. James A. Garfield 1881-81 / Anne Alexander

21. Chester A. Arthur 1881

85 / Sue Cameron

22 and 24 Grover Cleveland 1885-89 and 1893-97 / Gerry Hassan

23. Benjamin Harrison 1889-93 / Rosie Ilett

25. William McKinley 1897-1901 / David Torrance

26. Theodore Roosevelt 1901-09 / Damian Collins

27. William Howard Taft 1909-13 / Philip Norton

28. Woodrow Wilson 1913-21 / Roy Hattersley

29. Warren G. Harding 1921-23 / Adam Boulton

30. Calvin Coolidge 1923-29 / Leo McKinstry

31. Herbert Hoover 1929-33 / Robert Buckland

32. Franklin D. Roosevelt 1933-45 / Neil Stockley

33. Harry S. Truman 1945-53 / David Blanchflower

34. Dwight D. Eisenhower 1953-61 / Peter Caddick-Adams

35. John F. Kennedy 1961-63 / Simon Burns

36. Lyndon B. Johnson 1963-69 / George Osborne

37. Richard Nixon 1969-74 / Freddy Gray

38. Gerald Ford 1974-77 / Andy Silvester

39. Jimmy Carter 1977

81 / David Owen

40. Ronald Reagan 1981-89 / Simon Heffer

41. George H.W Bush 1989-93 / Colleen Graffy

42. William Jefferson Clinton 1993-2001 / Poppy Trowbridge

43. George W. Bush 2001-09 / Christopher Meyer

44. Barack Obama 2009-17 / Toby Harnden

45. Donald J. Trump 2017-21 / Justin Webb

46. Joe Biden 2021 / Andrew Adonis.

Notes:

Includes index.

Other Format:

ebook version :

ISBN:

9781529379525

1529379520

9781529379532

1529379539

OCLC:

1268135734

Publisher Number:

99989842811