U.S. Presidents
epub |eng | | Author:Stephen E. Ambrose

CHAPTER SEVENTEEN The High Cost of Defense, Nuclear Testing, Civil Rights January–July 1957 ON EVERY possible occasion, Eisenhower told the press, the politicians, and the public that the only way ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents February 23,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Kate Brower

Hillary Clinton is redefining what America expects a First Lady to be Bill and Hillary Clinton met at university, and it was she who was expected to have the celebrated ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents February 22,2020 )
epub |eng | 2017-02-21 | Author:Max Lerner

The brief months as vice president were a relief from Truman’s close to a decade of hard work, as senator, but also an anticlimax. Truman managed a large correspondence and ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents February 22,2020 )
epub |eng | 2001-07-15 | Author:RICHARD REEVES

CHAPTER 24 October 21, 1971 JOHN ANDREWS was the designated anecdotalist standing behind President Nixon on September 30 at a White House reception for finance ministers and other officials in ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents February 19,2020 )
mobi |eng | 2012-11-15 | Author:Marie-Pierre Rey

CHAPTER 11 1812 The Duel of the Emperors The huge bibliography devoted to the Napoleonic campaigns and in particular to the war of 1812 makes one dizzy: no fewer than ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents February 17,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-07-09 | Author:Steven M Gillon

* * * — Over the next eighteen months, the two partners arranged meetings with wealthy investors, many of them friends of John’s mom, along with a handful of publishing ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents February 15,2020 )
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2008-09-16 | Author:Craig Symonds [Symonds, Craig]

8 “I Shall Have to Cut This Knot” Lincoln as Adjudicator IT WAS NOT ALL BAD NEWS. Though the reports from the Army of the Potomac were devastating, those from ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents February 14,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-11-26 | Author:Edward J. Larson

Book III Working Together and Apart Six Rendezvous in Philadelphia WITH CIVIC BOOSTERS INTENT on turning Philadelphia into the commercial, financial, and perhaps political capital of the newly independent states, ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents February 14,2020 )
epub |eng | 2020-02-10 | Author:Tevi Troy

CHAPTER 8 GEORGE H. W. BUSH Darman and Sununu versus All Few presidents can compare to George H. W. Bush when it comes to resume and experience in government. Bush ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents February 12,2020 )
epub |eng | 2020-02-04 | Author:Alexis Coe

* * * As an adult, Washington had often proved to be a negligent son, and the busy spring and summer of 1789 were no exception. By the time Betty ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents February 5,2020 )
epub |eng | 2012-01-30 | Author:Fulsom, Don [Fulsom, Don]

TWELVE WATERGATE: WHAT SECRETS WAS NIXON SEEKING? Early in the 1968 campaign, power-hungry, episodically nutty billionaire Howard Hughes—in a lucid moment and non-nuanced memo—stated his determination to elect a president ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents January 29,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-02-06 | Author:Brian R. Dirck

Let dogs delight to bark and bite, I have no taste for war; My joy is not in fire and fight, In cannon’s roar and bullet’s flight, And nasty pools ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents January 19,2020 )
epub |eng | 2017-01-15 | Author:Irwin F. Gellman [Gellman, Irwin F.]

Republican Democrat Write-in Manchester Boddy 156,884 379,077 Helen Gahagan Douglas 153,788 734,842 2,326 Richard Nixon 740,465 318,840 Earl Desmond 60,613 96,752 Ulysses Meyer 18,783 34,707 Albert Levitt 15,929 -0- Democrats ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents January 19,2020 )
epub |eng | 2013-08-29 | Author:Stephen Brumwell [Brumwell, Stephen]

8 Victory or Death Lacking the boats he needed to ferry his troops across the Delaware River and continue hounding Washington’s army, on December 14, 1776, William Howe called a ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents January 18,2020 )
epub |eng | 2013-09-30 | Author:Stephen Kinzer [Kinzer, Stephen]

8 THE SELF-INTOXICATED PRESIDENT Rarely has a head of state anticipated a visit to the United States as eagerly as President Sukarno of Indonesia. American history fascinated him. As a ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents January 16,2020 )