Category: Presidents & Heads of State

Abraham Lincoln and the Forge of National Memory

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Publisher: University of Chicago Press : 8/1/2003 12:00:01 AM

Seller ID: mon0000679796

ISBN-13: 9780226741987

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Abraham Lincoln has long dominated the pantheon of American presidents. From his lavish memorial in Washington and immortalization on Mount Rushmore, one might assume he was a national hero rather than a controversial president who came close to losing his 1864 bid for reelection. In Abraham Lincoln and the Forge of National Memory, Barry Schwartz aims at these contradictions in his study of Lincoln's reputation, from the president's death through the industrial revolution to his apotheosis during the Progressive Era and First World War. Schwartz draws on a wide array of materials-painting an...
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America's Lawyer-Presidents: From Law Office to Oval Office

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Publisher: Northwestern University Press : 2004-08-20

Seller ID: mon0000667840

ISBN-13: 9780810112186

Condition: Acceptable

Contains some, or all, of the following: highlights, notes, and underlining.
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Building the Myth: Selected Speeches Memorializing Abraham Lincoln

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Publisher: University of Illinois Press : 1990-12-01

Seller ID: mon0000480289

ISBN-13: 9780252017346

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Captain Sam Grant/1822-1861

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Publisher: Little Brown & Co (Pap)

Seller ID: mon0000643749

ISBN-13: 9780316523325

Condition: VeryGood

De Gaulle and the United States: A Centennial Reappraisal

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Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic : 1994-12-14

Seller ID: mon0000178691

ISBN-13: 9781859730669

Condition: Acceptable

notes and underlining
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Dear Bess: The Letters from Harry to Bess Truman

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Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc : 1983T

Seller ID: mon0000702738

ISBN-13: 9780393018226

Condition: Good

Eisenhower at War 1943-1945

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Publisher: Random House : 8/12/1986 12:00:01 A

Seller ID: mon0000679315

ISBN-13: 9780394412375

Condition: VeryGood

Researching the Presidency: Vital Questions, New Approaches (Pitt Series in Policy and Institutional Studies)

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Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press : 2009-06-01

Seller ID: mon0000667315

ISBN-13: 9780822954941

Condition: Acceptable

Contains some notes and underlining. Spine creased, but binding still sound.
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The Managerial Presidency, Second Edition (Joseph V. Hughes Jr. and Holly O. Hughes Series on the Presidency and Leadership)

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Publisher: Texas A&M University Press : 1999-02-01

Seller ID: mon0000667360

ISBN-13: 9780890968604

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As the scope and size of the U.S. government has expanded, the importance of good management to the success of a presidency has also increased. Although good management cannot guarantee political or policy success, poor management can certainly undermine good policy and political efforts. In this second edition of The Managerial Presidency James P. Pfiffner brings together both classic analyses and more recent treatments of managerial issues that affect the presidency. Some of the foremost presidency scholars have contributed to this volume, including Richard Neustadt, Charles O. Jones, Hugh H...
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The Presidency and the Political System

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Publisher: Cq Pr : 1997-11-01

Seller ID: mon0000112745

ISBN-13: 9781568023045

Condition: Acceptable

Highlighting and notes.
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New Orleans: The Battle of the Bayous

By: Albright, Harry

Price: $4.17

Publisher: Hippocrene Books : 1990-11-01

Seller ID: mon0000644191

ISBN-13: 9780870528781

Condition: VeryGood

A narrative history of the Battle of New Orleans, the only land battle of the War of 1812, and its hero, Andrew Jackson.
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America's First Families: An Inside View of 200 Years of Private Life in the White House (Lisa Drew Books (Paperback))

By: Anthony, Carl Sferrazza

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Publisher: Touchstone : 2000-11-02

Seller ID: mon0000436308

ISBN-13: 9780684864426

Condition: VeryGood

Packed with more than 300 photographs from archives and private collections -- many published here for the first time -- entertaining anecdotes, political analysis, the dynamics of family relationships, and behind-the-scenes gossip, America's First Families offers the first up-close look at the families -- from John and Abigail Adams in 1800 to Bill and Hillary Clinton -- who have intrigued and entranced the American public for two centuries. Carl Sferrazza Anthony opens the door to the world's most famous residence to reveal life as it was actually lived there. He takes readers into the heart...
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The Years of Lyndon Johnson: The Path to Power

By: Caro, Robert A.

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Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf : 1982-11-12

Seller ID: mon0000708474

ISBN-13: 9780394499734

Condition: Good

Spine is sun faded.
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Roosevelt and the Isolationists, 1932-45

By: Cole, Wayne S.

Price: $83.72

Publisher: University of Nebraska Press : 1983-04-01

Seller ID: mon0000644020

ISBN-13: 9780803214101

Condition: New

In shrinkwrap.
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Eisenhower: A Soldier's Life

By: D'Este, Carlo

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Publisher: Holt Paperbacks : 2003-05-15

Seller ID: mon0000625864

ISBN-13: 9780805056877

Condition: Good

"An excellent book . . . D'Este's masterly account comes into its own." --The Washington Post Book WorldBorn into hardscrabble poverty in rural Kansas, the son of stern pacifists, Dwight David Eisenhower graduated from high school more likely to teach history than to make it. Casting new light on this profound evolution, Eisenhower chronicles the unlikely, dramatic rise of the supreme Allied commander.With full access to private papers and letters, Carlo D'Este has exposed for the first time the untold myths that have surrounded Eisenhower and his family for over fifty years, and identified th...
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Hail to the Chief: The Making and Unmaking of the American Presidents

By: Dallek, Robert

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Publisher: Hyperion : 1996-09-26

Seller ID: mon0000584215

ISBN-13: 9780786862054

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An analysis of the history of the U.S. presidency details the lives of each president and looks at why some have become national heroes while others have faded into historical obscurity, revealing five qualities that successful presidents have typically brought to the Oval Office. Tour.
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The Opposition Presidency: Leadership and the Constraints of History (Joseph V. Hughes Jr. and Holly O. Hughes Series on the Presidency and Leadership)

By: David A. Crockett

Price: $2.79

Publisher: Texas A&M University Press : 2002-09-25

Seller ID: mon0000620033

ISBN-13: 9781585441570

Condition: Good

Pen underlining on a few pages.
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John Adams

By: David McCullough

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Publisher: Simon & Schuster : 2001-05-22

Seller ID: mon0000453259

ISBN-13: 9780684813639

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The Pulitzer Prize-winning, bestselling biography of America's founding father and second president that was the basis for the acclaimed HBO series, brilliantly told by master historian David McCullough. In this powerful, epic biography, David McCullough unfolds the adventurous life journey of John Adams, the brilliant, fiercely independent, often irascible, always honest Yankee patriot who spared nothing in his zeal for the American Revolution; who rose to become the second president of the United States and saved the country from blundering into an unnecessary war; who was learned beyond all...
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Truman

By: David McCullough

Price: $3.48

Publisher: Simon & Schuster : 1992-06-15

Seller ID: mon0000698003

ISBN-13: 9780671456542

Condition: Good

Small stain on text block.
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Truman

By: David McCullough

Price: $3.48

Publisher: Simon & Schuster : 1992-06-15

Seller ID: mon0000029363

ISBN-13: 9780671456542

Condition: Good

The Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of Harry S. Truman, whose presidency included momentous events from the atomic bombing of Japan to the outbreak of the Cold War and the Korean War, told by America's beloved and distinguished historian. The life of Harry S. Truman is one of the greatest of American stories, filled with vivid characters--Roosevelt, Churchill, Stalin, Eleanor Roosevelt, Bess Wallace Truman, George Marshall, Joe McCarthy, and Dean Acheson--and dramatic events. In this riveting biography, acclaimed historian David McCullough not only captures the man--a more complex, informed, ...
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Category: Presidents & Heads of State