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| Material Type: | Biography, Internet resource |
|---|---|
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Stephen Richards Graubard |
| ISBN: | 0465027571 9780465027576 |
| OCLC Number: | 54913825 |
| Description: | xiii, 722 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. |
| Contents: | The presidency. Of a republic transformed by kings, courtiers, and warriors -- Accidental presidents and vice presidential heirs apparent -- Let the people speak : no more smoke-filled rooms -- The presidents. To be a king (Theodore Roosevelt) -- The dauphin (William Howard Taft) -- The democratic interloper (Woodrow Wilson) -- Back to normalcy (Warren Harding) -- The great enigma (Calvin Coolidge) -- The engineer (Herbert Hoover) -- The savior (Franklin Roosevelt) -- The creator (Harry Truman) -- The general (Dwight D. Eisenhower) -- The boy wonder (John F. Kennedy) -- The Texan (Lyndon B. Johnson) -- The villain? (Richard Nixon ) -- The innocent (Gerald Ford) -- The new Georgia (Jimmy Carter) -- The actor (Ronald Reagan) -- The Connecticut Yankee in disguise (George H.W. Bush) -- The rake's progress (Bill Clinton) -- Reagan's boy (George W. Bush) -- Epilogue -- Appendix : Bryce's and Toqueville's America : a prefiguring of twentieth-century America? |
| Responsibility: | Stephen Graubard. |
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