Author: United States. PresidentPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Presidents
Languages : en
Pages : 1306
Book Description
"Containing the public messages, speeches, and statements of the President", 1956-1992.
Where They Stand
Author: Robert W. MerryPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 145162543X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
The author of the acclaimed biography of President James Polk, A Country of Vast Designs, offers a fresh, playful, and challenging way of playing “Rating the Presidents,” by pitching historians’ views and subsequent experts’ polls against the judgment and votes of the presidents’ own contemporaries. Merry posits that presidents rise and fall based on performance, as judged by the electorate. Thus, he explores the presidency by comparing the judgments of historians with how the voters saw things. Was the president reelected? If so, did his party hold office in the next election? Where They Stand examines the chief executives Merry calls “Men of Destiny,’’ those who set the country toward new directions. There are six of them, including the three nearly always at the top of all academic polls—Lincoln, Washington, and FDR. He describes the “Split-Decision Presidents’’ (including Wilson and Nixon)—successful in their first terms and reelected; less successful in their second terms and succeeded by the opposition party. He describes the “Near Greats’’ (Jefferson, Jackson, Polk, TR, Truman), the “War Presidents’’ (Madison, McKinley, Lyndon Johnson), the flat-out failures (Buchanan, Pierce), and those whose standing has fluctuated (Grant, Cleveland, Eisenhower). This voyage through our history provides a probing and provocative analysis of how presidential politics works and how the country sets its course. Where They Stand invites readers to pitch their opinions against the voters of old, the historians, the pollsters—and against the author himself. In this year of raucous presidential politics, Where They Stand will provide a context for the unfolding campaign drama.
Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States
Author: United States. PresidentPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Presidents
Languages : en
Pages : 1306
Book Description
"Containing the public messages, speeches, and statements of the President", 1956-1992.
Presidents on Wheels
Author: Herbert Ridgeway CollinsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description
With chapters on each U.S. president from George Washington through Richard Nixon, plus one on "White House Stables and Garages," this book attempts to bring together all known facts surrounding the vehicles they used and what became of them.
Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Jimmy Carter, 1979
Author: Carter, JimmyPublisher: Best Books on
ISBN: 1623767741
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1298
Book Description
Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States
The Works of President Edwards
Author: Jonathan EdwardsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Congregational churches
Languages : en
Pages : 572
Book Description
Leaders in the Crossroads
Author: Stephen James NelsonPublisher: R&L Education
ISBN: 1607092492
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
Leaders in the Crossroads considers two intriguing issues: an exploration of the characteristics that determine success and failure in the academy's top post and the impact of that post on a college. An evaluation of the responsibilities and challenges presidents face, and how they speak and lead, is a fair way to explore realities about college presidents and their successes and failures. How do presidential leadership, rhetoric, and action connect to the fundamental beliefs and values at the foundation of the university? Are presidents able to make a difference, and if so, how do they contribute to the legacy of the university? College presidents are noteworthy leaders in and outside the gates. Deliberations about the success and failure of the presidency, and its obligation to the foundations of the academy generate more questions than answers. However, this inquiry is crucial because it sheds light on the college presidency and on its relationship to the future of the university.
Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States, Jimmy Carter, 1979, Book 2: June 23 to December 31, 1979
Author: Publisher: Government Printing Office
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1300
Book Description
Report of the President and Directors of the Michigan Central Railroad Company to the Stockholders
Author: Michigan Central Railroad CompanyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 506
Book Description
Fourth Annual Report, of the President and Directors, to the Stockholders of the Baltimore and Ohio Rail Road Company
Author: Baltimore and Ohio Railroad CompanyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Railroad companies
Languages : en
Pages : 154
Book Description
Abridgment ... Containing the Annual Message of the President of the United States to the Two Houses of Congress ... with Reports of Departments and Selections from Accompanying Papers
Author: United States. CongressPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 554
Book Description