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The Presidency of George Washington
In this volume, Forrest McDonald admits that George Washington was no executive genius, and notes that a number of his advisers and cabinet members were considerably more important …
The Presidency of Benjamin Harrison
Benjamin Harrison was an early proponent of American expansion in the Pacific, a key figure in such landmark legislation as the Sherman Anti-Trust Act and the McKinley Tariff, and …
The Presidency of Harry S. Truman
Tough, concerned, direct, occasionally vulgar, and often partisan Harry S. Truman would never completely work himself out from the shadow of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Yet Truman …
The Presidencies of Zachary Taylor and Millard Fillmore
In this book Elbert B. Smith disagrees sharply with traditional interpretations of Taylor and Fillmore, the twelfth and thirteenth presidents (from 1848 to 1853). He argues …
The William Howard Taft Presidency
The only president to later serve as chief justice of the United States, William Howard Taft remarked in the 1920s that 'I don't remember that I ever was President'. Historians …
The Presidencies of William Henry Harrison and John Tyler
Wearied by the hotly contested Log Cabin and Hard Cider campaign that unseated the Democratic incumbent, Martin Van Buren, Harrison succumbed to pneumonia after only one month in …
The Presidency of John F. Kennedy
The presidency of John F. Kennedy continues to fascinate, even as it also continues to inspire heated debates between admirers and detractors of Camelot's fallen king. Now, readers …
The Presidency of Gerald R. Ford
This is a study of one of the most popular yet most misunderstood presidents. Reaching beyond the image of Ford as ""healer"" of a war-torn and scandal-ridden nation, the author …
The Presidency of John Adams
The administration of John Adams was a period of rapid change, internal discord, and the continual threat of war. Few of the nation's chief executives have been subjected to such …
The Presidency of Dwight D. Eisenhower
The focus of this work is not whether Eisenhower was an active or passive president, but how his decisions shaped American life in the 1950s and beyond. This updated edition …
The Presidency of Rutherford B. Hayes
This new interpretation of the Hayes administration contradicts the widely held view that Hayes was an inept politician and an ineffective leader. Hoogenboom argues that it was …
The Presidency of John Quincy Adams
Historians have not been generous in judging the presidency of John Quincy Adams. Those who have most conspicuously upheld Adams's fame have, at the same time, virtually ignored …