The American Presidents: Critical Essays

ISBN-13: 9780815321842 / Angielski / Twarda / 2000 / 544 str.

Melvin I. Urofsky

Opis

This collection of articles analyze and evaluate the presidential careers of the men who have occupied the office since its inception in 1789. In this volume, the leading presidential historians in the United States offer insights into what makes a president great, mediocre, or in the case of most of them something in between. The book considers the nature of presidential greatness. Great presidents seems to have required extraordinary challenges. George Washington had the challenge of creating the very office itself as well as protecting the fragile independence of the United States. Abraham Lincoln faced the challenges of rebellion and of preserving the Union during civil war and the massive social upheaval of emancipation. Franklin Delano Roosevelt galvanized a nation facing economic depression and world war and in the process served longer than any other individual.

Recenzje

"The forthright and thoughtful analysis offered in this book is admirable..." -- American Reference Books Annual

Spis treści

1 George Washington 2 John Adams 3 Thomas Jefferson 4 James Madison 5 James Monroe 6 John Quincy Adams 7 Andrew Jackson 8 Martin Van Buren 9 William Henry Harrison 10 John Tyler 11 James Knox Polk 12 Zachary Taylor 13 Millard Fillmore 14 Franklin Pierce 15 James Buchanan 16 Abraham Lincoln 17 Andrew Johnson 18 Ulysses Simpson Grant 19 Rutherford Birchard Hayes 20 James Abram Garfield 21 Chester Alan Arthur 22 and 24 Stephen Grover Cleveland 23 Benjamin Harrison25 William McKinley 26 Theodore Roosevelt 27 William Howard Taft 28 Thomas Woodrow Wilson 29 Warren Gamaliel Harding 30 John Calvin Coolidge 31 Herbert Clark Hoover 32 Franklin Delano Roosevelt 33 Harry S.Truman 34 Dwight David Eisenhower 35 John Fitzgerald Kennedy 36 Lyndon Baines Johnson 37 Richard Milhous Nixon 38 Gerald Rudolph Ford 39 James Earl (Jimmy) Carter, Jr. 40 Ronald Wilson Reagan 41 George Herbert Walker Bush 42 William Jefferson (Bill) Clinton

O autorze

Melvin I. Urofsky is a professor of history at the Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond. The author and editor of more than two dozen books and over one hundred articles, he edited the multi-volume Letters of Louis D. Brandeis(1972-1978) with David W. Levy. he is also the author of The Supreme Court Justices: A Biographical Dictionary(Garland, 1994) and of Division and Discord: The Supreme Court under Stone and Vinson, 1941-1953 (1997).