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During the thirteen days in October 1962 when the United States
confronted the Soviet Union over its installation of missiles in
Cuba, few people shared the behind-the-scenes story as it is told
here by the late Senator Robert F. Kennedy. In this unique account,
he describes each of the participants during the sometimes
hour-to-hour negotiations, with particular attention to the actions
and views of his brother, President John F. Kennedy. In a new
foreword, the distinguished historian and Kennedy adviser Arthur
Schlesinger, Jr., discusses the book's enduring importance and the
significance of new information about the crisis that has come to
light, especially from the Soviet Union.
The "accidental" president whose innate decency and steady hand
restored the presidency after its greatest crisis When Gerald R.
Ford entered the White House in August 1974, he inherited a
presidency tarnished by the Watergate scandal, the economy was in a
recession, the Vietnam War was drawing to a close, and he had taken
office without having been elected. Most observers gave him little
chance of success, especially after he pardoned Richard Nixon just
a month into his presidency, an action that outraged many
Americans, but which Ford thought was necessary to move the nation
forward.
Many people today think of Ford as a man who stumbled a
lot--clumsy on his feet and in politics--but acclaimed historian
Douglas Brinkley shows him to be a man of independent thought and
conscience, who never allowed party loyalty to prevail over his
sense of right and wrong. As a young congressman, he stood up to
the isolationists in the Republican leadership, promoting a
vigorous role for America in the world. Later, as House minority
leader and as president, he challenged the right wing of his party,
refusing to bend to their vision of confrontation with the
Communist world. And after the fall of Saigon, Ford also overruled
his advisers by allowing Vietnamese refugees to enter the United
States, arguing that to do so was the humane thing to do.
Brinkley draws on exclusive interviews with Ford and on previously
unpublished documents (including a remarkable correspondence
between Ford and Nixon stretching over four decades), fashioning a
masterful reassessment of Gerald R. Ford's presidency and his
underappreciated legacy to the nation.
A bestselling historian and political commentator reconsiders McKinley's overshadowed legacy
By any serious measurement, bestselling historian Kevin Phillips argues, William McKinley was a major American president. It was during his administration that the United States made its diplomatic and military debut as a world power. McKinley was one of eight presidents who, either in the White House or on the battlefield, stood as principals in successful wars, and he was among the six or seven to take office in what became recognized as a major realignment of the U.S. party system.
Phillips, author of Wealth and Democracy and The Cousins' War, has long been fascinated with McKinley in the context of how the GOP began each of its cycles of power. He argues that McKinley's lackluster ratings have been sustained not by unjust biographers but by years of criticism about his personality, indirect methodologies, middle-class demeanor, and tactical inability to inspire the American public. In this powerful and persuasive biography, Phillips musters convincing evidence that McKinley's desire to heal, renew prosperity, and reunite the country qualify him for promotion into the ranks of the best chief executives.
This is a new release of the original 1939 edition.
Additional Contributing Authors Include William S. Ferguson, Guy
Stanton Ford, Carlton J. H. Hayes, And Dexter Perkins. Introduction
By J. Franklin Jameson. A Report By The Committee Of The American
Historical Association On The Planning Of Research.
Additional Contributing Authors Include William S. Ferguson, Guy
Stanton Ford, Carlton J. H. Hayes, And Dexter Perkins. Introduction
By J. Franklin Jameson. A Report By The Committee Of The American
Historical Association On The Planning Of Research.
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone!
This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the
original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as
marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe
this work is culturally important, we have made it available as
part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting
the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions
that are true to the original work.
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone!
This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the
original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as
marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe
this work is culturally important, we have made it available as
part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting
the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions
that are true to the original work.
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone!
This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for
quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in
an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the
digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books
may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading
experience. We believe this work is culturally important and have
elected to bring the book back into print as part of our continuing
commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide.
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone!
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Harry S. Truman (Hardcover)
Robert Dallek; Edited by Arthur Meier Schlesinger, Sean Wilentz
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The plainspoken man from Missouri who never expected to be
president yet rose to become one of the greatest leaders of the
twentieth century
In April 1945, after the death of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the
presidency fell to a former haberdasher and clubhouse politician
from Independence, Missouri. Many believed he would be overmatched
by the job, but Harry S. Truman would surprise them all.
Few chief executives have had so lasting an impact. Truman
ushered America into the nuclear age, established the alliances and
principles that would define the cold war and the national security
state, started the nation on the road to civil rights, and won the
most dramatic election of the twentieth century--his 1948
"whistlestop campaign" against Thomas E. Dewey.
Robert Dallek, the bestselling biographer of John F. Kennedy and
Lyndon B. Johnson, shows how this unassuming yet supremely
confident man rose to the occasion. Truman clashed with Southerners
over civil rights, with organized labor over the right to strike,
and with General Douglas MacArthur over the conduct of the Korean
War. He personified Thomas Jefferson's observation that the
presidency is a "splendid misery," but it was during his tenure
that the United States truly came of age.
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