Author: Ann Bausum
Publisher: National Geographic Children’s Books
Keywords: presidents, barack, obama, washington, george, need, country
Number of Pages: 216
Published: 2009-01-13
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 1426303750
ISBN-13: 9781426303753

Authors:Ira Rutkow, Arthur M. Schlesinger,
Publisher: Times Books
Keywords: american, presidents, times, president, series, james, garfield
Number of Pages: 208
Published: 2006-05-30
List price: $22.00
ISBN-10: 080506950X
ISBN-13: 9780805069501

The ambitious self-made man who reached the pinnacle of American politics--only to be felled by an assassin’s bullet and to die at the hands of his doctorsJames A. Garfield was one of the Republican Party’s leading lights in the years following the Civil War. Born in a log cabin, he rose to become a college president, Union Army general, and congressman--all by the age of thirty-two. Embodying the strive-and-succeed spirit that captured the imagination of Americans in his time, he was elected president in 1880. It is no surprise that one of his biographers was Horatio Alger.Garfiel

Authors:Roy Jenkins, Arthur M. Schlesinger,
Publisher: Times Books
Keywords: american, presidents, president, times, 32nd, series, delano, franklin, roosevelt
Number of Pages: 208
Published: 2003-11-04
List price: $22.00
ISBN-10: 0805069593
ISBN-13: 9780805069594

A masterly work by the New York Times bestselling author of Churchill and GladstoneA protean figure and a man of massive achievement, Franklin Delano Roosevelt was the only man to be elected to the presidency more than twice. In a ranking of chief executives, no more than three of his predecessors could truly be placed in contention with his standing, and of his successors, there are so far none. In acute, stylish prose, Roy Jenkins tackles all of the nuances and intricacies of FDR’s character. He was a skilled politician with astounding flexibility; he oversaw an incomparable mobilizati

Author:
Publisher: Applewood Books
Keywords: inaugural, presidents, addresses, states, united
Number of Pages: 196
Published: 2009-01-23
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 142909088X
ISBN-13: 9781429090889

This updated second volume of Inaugural Addresses of the Presidents of the United States now includes the January 20, 2009 address of President Barack Obama. Volume Two contains the speeches of Presidents Grover Cleveland, William McKinley, Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, Woodrow Wilson, Warren G. Harding, Calvin Coolidge, Herbert Hoover, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry S Truman, Dwight D. Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy, Lyndon Baines Johnson, Richard Milhous Nixon, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, George Bush, William Jefferson Clinton, George W. Bush, and, now, Barack Hussein Obama.

Author: Jon Roper
Publisher: Edinburgh University Pre
Keywords: presidents, american
Number of Pages: 248
Published: 2001-01-15
List price: $44.00
ISBN-10: 0748612262
ISBN-13: 9780748612260

This book looks at how John F. Kennedy confronted the challenge of the Cold War, molding the narratives of "consensus history" into the activist rhetoric of the New Frontier. It examines how his image, heroic style of leadership, and legacy -America´s war in Vietnam -had an impact upon his successors. Covering the period from 1960 to the present, the book draws upon a wide variety of sources to illuminate its subjects. After Kennedy, "hero," came Lyndon Johnson, "casualty of war"; Richard Nixon, "heroic failure"; Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter, "faith-healers"; Ronald Reagan, "star"; Georg

Author: Bill Mare
Publisher: Stackpole Book
Keywords: presidents, fishing
Number of Pages: 160
Published: 1999-01-01
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 0811727688
ISBN-13: 9780811727686

* 63 b/w photos * 58 drawings * 6 x 9 * * Historic photos from private collections * Excerpts and anecdotes from journals, letters, diaries, personal interviews * Extensive collection of political cartoons "Bill Mares has written a unique book about the fishing habits of the United States presidents--good, bad, or indifferent. A fly fisherman himself, he writes with vigor and perception. When you read this book, you too will be hooked." --Stephen E. Ambrose, bestselling author of Undaunted Courage Fishing with the Presidents is not only a terrific piece of Americana, it’s great fun, and

Authors:MZA, Maria Sputnik,
Publisher: Garrett County Press
Keywords: presidents, four, forty
Number of Pages: 60
Published: 2009-10-16
List price: $12.95
ISBN-10: 1891053108
ISBN-13: 9781891053108