spending, they insisted that he slash the budget still more. They even denied his legitimacy. They called him not “President Clinton” but “Mister Clinton.” The Republican leader in the Senate, Robert Dole, announced that he would be ...
Eisenhower shocked observers who had thought of him as a centrist by naming an exceptionally large number of businessmen to his cabinet, most conspicuously Charles E. Wilson, president of General Motors, as secretary of defense.
This book charts the enormous growth of presidential power from its lowly state in the late nineteenth century to the imperial presidency of the twentieth.
Historian Kathryn Moore presents a riveting narrative of each president's personal and political experiences in and out of office, along with illuminating facts and statistics about each administration, fascinating timelines of national and ...
"The most comprehensive single-volume reference work on the presidents of the United States, as well as a fascinating glimpse into the continuing evolution of the office"--Back cover
Explores the lives of the presidents and the evolution of the presidency.
The American President: Power and Communication
The American President
" An American president must ultimately take responsibility for the direction of the country, an ideal succinctly expressed by Harry S. Truman, who told his fellow citizens that "the buck stops here.
Andrew Shepherd is the most popular American President in decades -- a consummate politician and a man of integrity -- who also happens to be a widower, ready to start dancing again.
With an original approach, personal interviews with our living presidents, exhaustive research into presidential writings, both published and unpublished, and an impressive advisory team of presidential experts, it brings to...
In The American President: A Complete History, historian Kathryn Moore presents a riveting narrative of each president's experiences in and out of office, along with illuminating facts and statistics about each administration, timelines of ...