Fit for the Presidency? Winners, Losers, What-Ifs, and Also-Rans / Seymour Morris Jr.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Morris, Seymour, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Presidential candidates--United States--Biography.

Presidential candidates.

Presidential candidates--United States--History.

United States--Politics and government.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (400 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Manufacture:

Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2017

Place of Publication:

Lincoln : Potomac Books, An imprint of the University of Nebraska Press, 2016.

Summary:

Every four years Americans embark on the ultimate carnival, the Super Bowl of democracy: a presidential election campaign filled with endless speeches, debates, handshakes, and passion. But what about the candidates themselves? In Fit for the Presidency?Seymour Morris Jr.

Contents:

Introduction: what our founding fathers looked for in a potential president

George Washington, 1789

DeWitt Clinton, 1812

William Henry Harrison, 1840

Abraham Lincoln, 1860

Jefferson Davis, 1861

Samuel J. Tilden, 1876

William Randolph Hearst, 1904

William Gibbs McAdoo, 1920

Herbert Hoover, 1928

Wendell Willkie, 1940

George C. Marshall, 1944

Henry A. Wallace, 1948

Barry Goldwater, 1964

Robert F. Kennedy, 1968

Ronald Reagan, 1980

Conclusion: appraising the candidate.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on print version record.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

1-61234-889-0

1-61234-887-4

OCLC:

966925048