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Riccards and Flagg examine in detail the development of Franklin
Delano Roosevelt from a young politician in Albany to assistant
secretary of the Navy to governor of the state of New York. The
volume shows how Roosevelt developed his rhetorical skills, his art
of manipulation and coalition building, and his incredible bond to
the American people through the Depression and World War II. As
commander in chief, he mastered the leadership skills that made him
a great military leader and a political leader who established
himself as a paramount figure using control of the Democratic
party. In the process, he solidified the party as a long-lasting
coalition that set the United States as a world empire.
In the first major, in-depth study since World War II, Michael P.
Riccards provides a narrative history of the U.S. presidency that
is also an invaluable reference. Volume One covers the presidency
from its creation to its major crisis in the Civil War and the
transitional presidency of McKinley. Volume Two Continues the
history up to the presidency of George Bush. In Volume Two, he
provides coverage of each administration and extended treatment of
the more important presidents. Though there is some biographical
material about each chief executive, the focus is on issues,
policies, legislative achievements and foreign policy decisions for
each administration.
This study is a comprehensive history of the papacy, the oldest
elective office in the world, and how it has managed over the
centuries the most complex voluntary association of faith. The book
argues that in fact through most of its existence, the papacy has
adapted managerial models of the secular world and applied them to
the Catholic Church. Since its emergence from the Jewish synagogues
to a persecuted minority in the Roman Empire to becoming the
established religion of the West, the Church and the papacy engaged
the world on its own terms. It is only after the Council of Trent
did the Church become somewhat more divorced and estranged from the
environment around it. This book focused on those changes and on
the great popes across the centuries who reformed and altered
Catholicism. Special attention is directed to Gregory I, Innocent
I, Innocent III, Pius IX, Leo XIII, Pius XI, Pius XII, John XXVII,
Paul VI, and John Paul II. The conclusion is that the persistence
of the Catholic Church for so many centuries was due to its ability
to preserve the faith, but re-establish its forms and managerial
class.
The first study on Woodrow Wilson as commander in chief during the
Great War, this volume analyzes Wilson's management style before
the war, his diplomacy and his final demise in his battle with the
Senate. It considers the war as representing the collapse of
Western traditional virtues and examines Wilson's attempt to
restore them. Emphasizing the American war effort on the domestic
front, it also discusses Wilson's rise to power, his education,
career, and work as governor as necessary steps in his formation.
The authors deal honestly and critically with the controversial
racism that characterized this brilliant but limited career. Wilson
provided many precedents for future war presidents from FDR to
Trump. Those who are interested in the development of the war
powers over the last century will find essential lessons in
Wilson's tenure as commander in chief.
What makes a great president? Certainly leadership,
accomplishments, crisis management, political skill, character, and
integrity are part of the equation, but the great presidents have
something more. They not only govern well, but are part of
something lasting; their presidencies influence the thoughts and
beliefs of generations. These powerful men are not flawless
leaders, they have made mistakes and miscalculations, but in the
end their decisions have changed the nation and often the world. In
Destiny's Consul: America's Greatest Presidents, presidential
scholar Michael P. Riccards provides a concise introduction to the
lives, presidencies, and personal qualities of ten great
individuals whom Riccards argues are our greatest presidents.
Organized chronologically, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson,
Andrew Jackson, James K. Polk, Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt,
Woodrow Wilson, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman, and Ronald
Reagan are shown to truly be great. It will be of interest to
anyone interested in the presidency of American history.
This is the fourth volume in the Hall Institute of Public
Policy's 2020 series. These topical and scholarly articles are
meant to examine some of the major issues facing the state of New
Jersey and the United States, and embrace matters of national
security, social entitlements, religious differences, the gold
standard, prosecutorial misconduct, the rights of alleged
terrorists, the free market economy and other concerns. These
essays offer a unique picture of where we are as a free people, and
is compiled by one of the few nonpartisan, not for profit think
tanks in America.
This volume is a collection of verse plays by Michael P. Riccards.
The author shows how a modern verse style can be used to heighten
and deepen the situations and events that characterize a variety of
subjects from historical dramas of great men to baseball heroes and
famous persons in fables that we all know and love.
This is the fourth volume in the Hall Institute of Public
Policy's 2020 series. These topical and scholarly articles are
meant to examine some of the major issues facing the state of New
Jersey and the United States, and embrace matters of national
security, social entitlements, religious differences, the gold
standard, prosecutorial misconduct, the rights of alleged
terrorists, the free market economy and other concerns. These
essays offer a unique picture of where we are as a free people, and
is compiled by one of the few nonpartisan, not for profit think
tanks in America.
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