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The American President - From Teddy Roosevelt to Bill Clinton (Hardcover)
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The American President - From Teddy Roosevelt to Bill Clinton (Hardcover)
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The American President is a riveting account of the actions of
American presidents in the twentieth century from the assassination
of William McKinley in 1901 to Bill Clinton's last night in office
in January 2001. William Leuchtenburg, a prize-winning historian
who has been a political analyst for major television networks,
portrays each of the presidents in a chronicle sparked by anecdote
and salted with wit. In this lively narrative, Leuchtenburg
highlights countless moments of high drama: Woodrow Wilson sailing
home from Paris with the Covenant of the League of Nations that the
United States Senate will reject, breaking his heart; FDR hurling
defiance at the "economic royalists " who exploited the poor; John
F. Kennedy coping with white-knuckle anxiety as Soviet vessels
approach an American naval blockade in the Atlantic; Richard Nixon
conspiring to suppress evidence of the Watergate break-in;
grievously wounded Ronald Reagan quipping with nurses while
fighting for his life; Bill Clinton seeking to survive his affair
with Monica Lewinsky as his pursuers close in. American President
shows the enormous growth of presidential power from its lowly
state in the late nineteenth century to the imperial presidency of
the twentieth century. That striking change, Leuchtenburg
maintains, was manifested both at home-in periods of progressive
reform from Theodore Roosevelt's Square Deal, Woodrow Wilson's New
Freedom, and Franklin Delano Roosevelt's New Deal to Harry Truman's
Fair Deal, John F. Kennedy's New Frontier, and Lyndon B. Johnson's
Great Society-and abroad, notably in World Wars I and II, the
Korean conflict, Vietnam, and the war on terror. 4L American
President exposes numerous instances when even the best of
presidents practiced deceit, puncturing the inflated reputations of
the overrated. But it also demonstrates brilliantly that there were
times when the country's leaders were magnificent figures, worthy
of the nation's pride.
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