Author: United States. PresidentPublisher:
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 658
Book Description
A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents, 1789-1897
Author: United States. PresidentPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 658
Book Description
A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents, 1789-1897: Declaration of Independence ; Articles of Confederation ; Constitution ; George Washington (first term), 1789-1793 ; George Washington (second term), 1793-1797 ; John Adams, 1797-1801 ; Thomas Jefferson (first term), 1801-1805 ; Thomas Jefferson (second term), 1805-1809 ; James Madison (first term), 1809-1813 ; James Madison (second term), 1813-1817
Author: A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents, 1789-1897: George Washington (first term), 1789-1793 ; George Washington (second term), 1793-1797 ; John Adams, 1797-1801 ; Thomas Jefferson (first term), 1801-1805 ; Thomas Jefferson (second term), 1805-1809 ; James Madison (first term), 1809-1813 ; James Madison (second term), 1813-1817
Author: Vice Presidents of the United States 1789-1993
Author: The Presidents and the Constitution
Author: Ken GormleyPublisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 1479839906
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 711
Book Description
Shines new light on America's brilliant constitutional and presidential history, from George Washington to Barack Obama. In this sweepingly ambitious volume, the nation’s foremost experts on the American presidency and the U.S. Constitution join together to tell the intertwined stories of how each American president has confronted and shaped the Constitution. Each occupant of the office—the first president to the forty-fourth—has contributed to the story of the Constitution through the decisions he made and the actions he took as the nation’s chief executive. By examining presidential history through the lens of constitutional conflicts and challenges, The Presidents and the Constitution offers a fresh perspective on how the Constitution has evolved in the hands of individual presidents. It delves into key moments in American history, from Washington’s early battles with Congress to the advent of the national security presidency under George W. Bush and Barack Obama, to reveal the dramatic historical forces that drove these presidents to action. Historians and legal experts, including Richard Ellis, Gary Hart, Stanley Kutler and Kenneth Starr, bring the Constitution to life, and show how the awesome powers of the American presidency have been shapes by the men who were granted them. The book brings to the fore the overarching constitutional themes that span this country’s history and ties together presidencies in a way never before accomplished.
The Education of John Adams
Author: Richard B. BernsteinPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0199740232
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 369
Book Description
This book, a free-standing companion to Bernstein's 2003 biography Thomas Jefferson, responds to the public curiosity about Adams, his life, and his work for those intrigued by popular-culture portrayals of Adams in the Broadway musical 1776 and the HBO television miniseries John Adams. As with Bernstein's other work (e.g., The Founding Fathers: A Very Short Introduction), it is a clear, scholarly, concise, well-written, and well-researched account of Adams's life, career, and thought addressing anyone seeking to learn more about him.
The Reestablishment of the Navy, 1787-1801
Author: Michael J. CrawfordPublisher:
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
A Manual of Parliamentary Practice
Author: Thomas JeffersonPublisher:
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Category : Parliamentary practice
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
The National Survey of Historic Sites and Buildings
Author: The Diaries V. 6; Jan. , 1790-Dec. 1799
Author: George WashingtonPublisher: University of Virginia Press
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 586
Book Description
Washington was rarely isolated from the world during his eventful life. His diary for 1751-52 relates a voyage to Barbados when he was nineteen. The next two accounts concern the early phases of the French and Indian War, in which Washington commanded a Virginia regiment. By the 1760s when Washington's diaries resume, he considered himself retired from public life, but George III was on the British throne and in the American colonies the process of unrest was beginning that would ultimately place Washington in command of a revolutionary army. Even as he traveled to Philadelphia in 1787 to chair the Constitutional Convention, however, and later as president, Washington's first love remained his plantation, Mount Vernon. In his diary, he religiously recorded the changing methods of farming he employed there and the pleasures of riding and hunting. Rich in material from this private sphere, The Diaries of George Washington offer historians and anyone interested in Washington a closer view of the first president in this bicentennial year of his death.