American presidents series (Times Books)
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15) James Monroe
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Publisher
Times Books
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
The former senator and presidential candidate offers a provocative new assessment of the first "national security president". James Monroe is remembered today primarily for two things: for being the last of the "Virginia Dynasty", following George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and James Madison, and for issuing the Monroe Doctrine, his statement of principles in 1823 that the western hemisphere was to be considered closed to European intervention....
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James A. Garfield
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19) George H.W. Bush
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Publisher
Times Books
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
George Bush was a throwback to a different era. A patrician figure not known for eloquence, Bush dismissed ideology as "the vision thing." Yet, as biographer Naftali argues, no one was better prepared for the challenges facing the United States as the Cold War ended. Bush wisely encouraged the liberalization of the Soviet system and skillfully orchestrated the reunification of Germany. Following Iraq's invasion of Kuwait in 1990, he united the global...
20) Richard M. Nixon
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Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
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Description
The complex man at the center of America's most self-destructive presidency. In this revelatory assessment of the only president ever forced out of office, Washington journalist Drew explains how Nixon's troubled inner life offers the key to understanding his presidency. She shows how Nixon was surprisingly indecisive on domestic issues and often wasn't interested in them. Turning to international affairs, she reveals the inner workings of Nixon's...
21) Abraham Lincoln
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Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
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Description
America's greatest president, Abraham Lincoln towers above all others who have held the office. His presidency is the hinge on which American history pivots, the time when the young republic collapsed of its own contradictions but emerged after a bloody conflict with a new birth of freedom. Lincoln's story has been told many times, but never before by a man who himself sought the office of the president and contemplated its awesome responsibilities....
22) Andrew Johnson
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Publisher
Times Books/Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
23) Harry S. Truman
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Series
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
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Description
The plainspoken man from Missouri who never expected to be president yet rose to become one of the greatest leaders of the twentieth century, Harry S. Truman clashed with Southerners over civil rights, with organized labor over the right to strike, and with General Douglas MacArthur over the conduct of the Korean War. He personified Thomas Jefferson's observation that the presidency is a "splendid misery," but it was during his tenure that the United...
25) Herbert Hoover
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Publisher
Times Books
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Renowned New Deal historian Leuchtenburg offers a frank, thoughtful portrait of the lifelong public servant, and shrewdly assesses Hoover's policies and legacy in the face of one of the darkest periods of American history--the Great Depression.
28) John F. Kennedy
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Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
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Description
John F. Kennedy was a new kind of president. Forty-three when he was inaugurated in 1961, he personified what he called the "New Frontier" as the United States entered the 1960s. But the reality of Kennedy's achievements was much more complex than the legend. Kennedy's life, and his violent and sudden death, reshaped our view of the presidency. Brinkley gives us a full picture of the man, his times, and his enduring legacy.
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Bill Clinton: the 42nd president, 1993-2001
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31) George W. Bush
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Publisher
Times Books/Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
A biography of the controversial president whose time in office was defined by the September 11 attacks and the War on Terrorism.
32) Ronald Reagan
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Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"In the second half of the twentieth century, no American president defined his political era as did Ronald Reagan. He ushered in an age that extolled smaller government, tax cuts, and strong defense, and to this day politicians of both political parties operate within the parameters of the world he made. His eight years in office from 1981 to 1989 were a time of economic crisis and recovery, a new American assertiveness abroad, and an engagement...