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To the best of my ability : the American presidents / general editor, James McPherson ; editor, David Rubel.
Publication details: New York : Dorling Kindersley Pub., 2000.Edition: 1st American edDescription: 479 p. : ill. (some col.), col. maps ; 24 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0789450739 :
- E176.1 .T59 2000
Contents:
Summary: Every Generation of historians reviews and revises the work of its predecessors. With this book, the best historical writers of today's generation undertake such a task. Displaying wit and narrative flair, their elegant essays offer a fresh perspective on that most fascinating group of Americans: the American presidents.Summary: Who better to write a new assessment of the presidents than the most respected (and best-selling) historians of our time? In To the Best of My Ability: The American Presidents, members of the prestigious Society of American Historians deliver engaging, thoughtful analyses of the forty-one men who have led this country -- some, of course, more successfully than others.Summary: In this copiously illustrated volume, edited by Pulitzer Prize-winner James M. McPherson, you will learn from Gordon S. Wood how George Washington, an extraordinary man, made it possible for ordinary men to govern; from Allen Weinstein how Theodore Roosevelt tested and extended the limits of the presidency; from Tom Wicker how Richard Nixon's hatreds and insecurities gripped him ever more tightly as he achieved his long-sought goal of power; and from Evan Thomas how much Bill Clinton cares about his place in the new presidential pecking order.
The Presidents -- George Washington / Gordon S. Wood -- John Adams / James M. Banner, Jr. -- Thomas Jefferson / Joseph J. Ellis -- James Madison / Jack N. Rakove -- James Monroe / Jack N. Rakove -- John Quincy Adams / John Patrick Diggins -- Andrew Jackson / Robert V. Remini -- Martin Van Buren / Richard M. Pious -- William Henry Harrison / Daniel Walker Howe -- John Tyler / Richard M. Pious -- James K. Polk / Thomas Fleming -- Zachary Taylor / Catherine Clinton -- Millard Fillmore / Jean Harvey Baker -- Franklin Pierce / James A. Rawley -- James Buchanan / Jean Harvey Baker -- Abraham Lincoln / James M. McPherson -- Andrew Johnson / Hans L. Trefousse -- Ulysses S. Grant / Michael Les Benedict -- Rutherford B. Hayes / James A. Rawley -- James A. Garfield / Ari Hoogenboom -- Chester A. Arthur / Bernard A. Weisberger -- Grover Cleveland / Vincent P. De Santis -- Benjamin Harrison / Catherine Clinton -- William McKinley / Morton Keller -- Theodore Roosevelt / Allen Weinstein -- William Howard Taft / Mark C. Carnes -- Woodrow Wilson / James Chace -- Warren G. Harding / Morton Keller -- Calvin Coolidge / Robert Cowley -- Herbert Hoover / Robert Dallek -- Franklin D. Roosevelt / Susan Ware -- Harry S. Truman / Allen Weinstein -- Dwight D. Eisenhower / Herbert S. Parmet -- John F. Kennedy / Richard Reeves -- Lyndon B. Johnson / Robert Dallek -- Richard M. Nixon / Tom Wicker -- Gerald R. Ford / Laura Kalman -- Jimmy Carter / Douglas Brinkley -- Ronald Reagan / James T. Patterson -- George Bush / Herbert S. Parmet -- Bill Clinton / Evan Thomas -- The Campaigns and Inaugural Addresses.
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American University in Dubai | American University in Dubai | Main Collection | E 176.1 .T59 2000 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Copy Type:01 - Books | Available | 633032 |
Includes index.
The Presidents -- George Washington / Gordon S. Wood -- John Adams / James M. Banner, Jr. -- Thomas Jefferson / Joseph J. Ellis -- James Madison / Jack N. Rakove -- James Monroe / Jack N. Rakove -- John Quincy Adams / John Patrick Diggins -- Andrew Jackson / Robert V. Remini -- Martin Van Buren / Richard M. Pious -- William Henry Harrison / Daniel Walker Howe -- John Tyler / Richard M. Pious -- James K. Polk / Thomas Fleming -- Zachary Taylor / Catherine Clinton -- Millard Fillmore / Jean Harvey Baker -- Franklin Pierce / James A. Rawley -- James Buchanan / Jean Harvey Baker -- Abraham Lincoln / James M. McPherson -- Andrew Johnson / Hans L. Trefousse -- Ulysses S. Grant / Michael Les Benedict -- Rutherford B. Hayes / James A. Rawley -- James A. Garfield / Ari Hoogenboom -- Chester A. Arthur / Bernard A. Weisberger -- Grover Cleveland / Vincent P. De Santis -- Benjamin Harrison / Catherine Clinton -- William McKinley / Morton Keller -- Theodore Roosevelt / Allen Weinstein -- William Howard Taft / Mark C. Carnes -- Woodrow Wilson / James Chace -- Warren G. Harding / Morton Keller -- Calvin Coolidge / Robert Cowley -- Herbert Hoover / Robert Dallek -- Franklin D. Roosevelt / Susan Ware -- Harry S. Truman / Allen Weinstein -- Dwight D. Eisenhower / Herbert S. Parmet -- John F. Kennedy / Richard Reeves -- Lyndon B. Johnson / Robert Dallek -- Richard M. Nixon / Tom Wicker -- Gerald R. Ford / Laura Kalman -- Jimmy Carter / Douglas Brinkley -- Ronald Reagan / James T. Patterson -- George Bush / Herbert S. Parmet -- Bill Clinton / Evan Thomas -- The Campaigns and Inaugural Addresses.
Every Generation of historians reviews and revises the work of its predecessors. With this book, the best historical writers of today's generation undertake such a task. Displaying wit and narrative flair, their elegant essays offer a fresh perspective on that most fascinating group of Americans: the American presidents.
Who better to write a new assessment of the presidents than the most respected (and best-selling) historians of our time? In To the Best of My Ability: The American Presidents, members of the prestigious Society of American Historians deliver engaging, thoughtful analyses of the forty-one men who have led this country -- some, of course, more successfully than others.
In this copiously illustrated volume, edited by Pulitzer Prize-winner James M. McPherson, you will learn from Gordon S. Wood how George Washington, an extraordinary man, made it possible for ordinary men to govern; from Allen Weinstein how Theodore Roosevelt tested and extended the limits of the presidency; from Tom Wicker how Richard Nixon's hatreds and insecurities gripped him ever more tightly as he achieved his long-sought goal of power; and from Evan Thomas how much Bill Clinton cares about his place in the new presidential pecking order.
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