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The Toddler-In-Chief: What Donald Trump Teaches Us About the Modern Presidency by Daniel W. Drezner
epub |eng | 2020-04-15 | Author:Daniel W. Drezner [Drezner, Daniel W.]

Typically, Trump is accompanied by only a small staff entourage, sometimes with mid-level aides, on his weekend jaunts to Florida. But on Friday, several senior White House officials, including acting ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents April 9,2020 )
Lincoln on the Verge by Ted Widmer
epub |eng | 2020-04-07 | Author:Ted Widmer

Lincoln’s parade (New-York Illustrated News, March, 2, 1861) THE PARADE Lincoln’s parade was a glorious chaos from the start.105 One observer wrote, “Such a crowd as greeted his arrival I ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents April 8,2020 )
Beyond the White Hous by Jimmy Carter
epub |eng | | Author:Jimmy Carter

* * * A polling official announces each vote, one by one, to assembled citizens, then shows them the marked ballot, as votes are tallied in a Jakarta polling station ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents April 7,2020 )
The Accidental President: Harry S. Truman and the Four Months That Changed the World by A. J. Baime
azw3 |eng | 2017-10-23 | Author:A. J. Baime [Baime, A. J.]

25 ON MAY 28, Truman experienced for the first time the awestriking pageantry of a White House State Dinner. The regent of Iraq—Prince Abd al-Ilah—arrived in Washington with his entourage. ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents April 6,2020 )
Sharing Good Times by Jimmy Carter
epub |eng | | Author:Jimmy Carter

FAMILY VACATIONS WITH OUR FOUR CHILDREN, their spouses, and eleven grandchildren, ranging in age from five to twenty-nine, and with some of them married or with long-standing and apparently permanent ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents April 1,2020 )
The Making of the President 1964 by White Theodore H
epub |eng | 2010-12-13 | Author:White, Theodore H. [White, Theodore H.]

History can signal its changes to wise men without violence, but for those who prefer to ignore its message, it then raps with gunfire to call attention. The riots of ...
( Category: Elections March 30,2020 )
Lincoln: A Very Short Introduction by Allen C. Guelzo
epub, pdf |eng | 2009-02-05 | Author:Allen C. Guelzo [Guelzo, Allen C.]

Chapter 5 Debate The failure of popular sovereignty Contrary to the promises Stephen Douglas made for the popular sovereignty doctrine, almost nothing about popular sovereignty went right after the Kansas-Nebraska ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents March 30,2020 )
John Adams Under Fire: The Founding Father's Fight for Justice in the Boston Massacre Murder Trial by Dan Abrams
epub |eng | 2020-03-03 | Author:Dan Abrams [Abrams, Dan]

Collection of the Massachusetts Historical Society Samuel Adams was an astute politician who became a leading force in the revolution and an architect of the resulting republic. He deftly exploited ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents March 30,2020 )
1944: FDR and the Year That Changed History by Jay Winik
epub |eng | 2015-09-21 | Author:Jay Winik [Winik, Jay]

The movements of the Allied and Axis troops during the North Africa campaign The plan called for landing the army under the cover of darkness, and he was well aware ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents March 30,2020 )
Warlord by Carlo D'Este
epub |eng | 2008-03-14 | Author:Carlo D'Este

The last British soldier at Dunkirk the morning of June 3, 1940, was an aristocratic, unflappable Guards officer in charge of the British rear guard. Major General Harold Alexander, best ...
( Category: World War I March 28,2020 )
The Long Pursuit by Roy Morris Jr
epub |eng | 2018-09-26 | Author:Roy Morris, Jr.

( Category: American Civil War March 26,2020 )
Abraham Lincoln's Most Famous Case by George Dekle
epub |eng | 2014-03-14 | Author:George Dekle

All these points had to be put together and explained, and Lincoln excelled at the art of persuasive speech. He was the greatest orator of his age, and possibly the ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents March 25,2020 )
Obama by Deborah Willis
epub |eng | 2008-03-14 | Author:Deborah Willis

The May 19, 2008, cover of Time magazine features a portrait of a smiling Obama accompanied by the caption “And the Winner Is…(Really, we’re pretty sure this time).” The cover ...
( Category: Photo Essays March 25,2020 )
Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address Illustrated by Jack E. Levin
epub |eng | | Author:Jack E. Levin

Foreword On July 1, 1863, the Army of Northern Virginia, commanded by General Robert E. Lee, and the Army of the Potomac, commanded by General George Gordon Meade, met at ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents March 24,2020 )
Abraham Lincoln by Lord Charnwood
epub |eng | 1996-03-14 | Author:Lord Charnwood

2. Bull Run. Thus, in the autumn of 1861, North and South had become solidified into something like two countries. In the month of July, which now concerns us, this ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents March 24,2020 )

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