The American President The Human Drama of Our Nation's Highest Office,9781573221498

The American President The Human Drama of Our Nation's Highest Office

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ISBN13: 9781573221498
ISBN10: 157322149X
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 1999-10-25
Publisher(s): Riverhead Hardcover
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Summary

Now available in paperback -- the lavishly illustrated, national bestselling companion volume to the acclaimed ten-part public television series.

Author Biography

Philip B. Kunhardt, Jr., a former managing editor of Life magazine, is the author of numerous books, including the Christopher Award-winning memoir My Father's House and A New Birth of Freedom: Lincoln at Gettysburg, winner of the Barondess/Lincoln Award. He is also the co-author, with his mother, of Twenty Days, the definitive account of Lincoln's assassination and its aftermath, and co-author, with his sons, of The American President, Lincoln: An Illustrated Biography, and P. T. Barnum: America's Greatest Showman.


Peter W. Kunhardt has been producing documentaries for the past twenty years and is a three-time Emmy winner.

Table of Contents

Preface vii
A Personal Journey xi
Hugh Sidey
Foreword xii
Stephen Skowronek
Introduction xiv
Richard E. Neustadt
THE CANDIDATE
The Heroic Posture
2(46)
America's First Hero
6(12)
George Washington
A Manufactured Hero
18(6)
William Henry Harrison
In Over His Head
24(12)
Ulysses S. Grant
The Heroic Image
36(12)
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Compromise Choices
48(38)
The Dark Horse President
52(6)
Franklin Pierce
Awaiting Destiny
58(10)
James A. Garfield
``I Should Never Have Been Here''
68(10)
Warren G. Harding
Healing the Nation
78(8)
Gerald R. Ford
POLITICS AND THE PRESIDENCY
The Professional Politician
86(42)
``The Little Magician''
90(6)
Martin Van Buren
``Avoiding Conflict''
96(8)
James Buchanan
Politics with a Purpose
104(14)
Abraham Lincoln
The Art of Political Bluster
118(10)
Lyndon B. Johnson
An Independent Cast of Mind
128(36)
Going It Alone
132(8)
John Adams
``Old Rough and Ready''
140(8)
Zachary Taylor
``No Fondness for a Political Life''
148(8)
Rutherford B. Hayes
The Outsider
156(8)
Jimmy Carter
A MATTER OF DESTINY
Family Ties
164(42)
His Father's Son
168(6)
John Quincy Adams
``Nobody's Grandson''
174(10)
Benjamin Harrison
Possession by Right
184(12)
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Vindicating the Irish
196(10)
John F. Kennedy
Happenstance
206(52)
Establishing the Precedent
210(8)
John Tyler
``Called by a Bereavement''
218(6)
Millard Fillmore
``Elect of an Assassin''
224(14)
Andrew Johnson
``Gentleman Boss''
238(10)
Chester A. Arthur
American Optimist
248(10)
Harry S. Truman
EXECUTIVE VISION
The American Way
258(44)
His ``Empire of Liberty''
262(10)
Thomas Jefferson
Preacher of Prosperity
272(10)
Calvin Coolidge
American Individualist
282(10)
Herbert C. Hoover
An American Dreamer
292(10)
Ronald Reagan
The World Stage
302(44)
A Vision for the Hemisphere
306(6)
James Monroe
Reluctant Apostle
312(12)
William McKinley
American Idealist
324(12)
Woodrow Wilson
Personal Contact
336(10)
George Bush
AN OFFICE AND ITS POWERS
Expanding Power
346(50)
The Power of the People
350(10)
Andrew Jackson
``Ugly Honest''
360(12)
Grover Cleveland
``Rough Rider''
372(14)
Theodore Roosevelt
Abuse of Power
386(10)
Richard M. Nixon
The Balance of Power
396(46)
Creating the Balance
400(8)
James Madison
``Young Hickory''
408(10)
James K. Polk
Preserving the Balance
418(12)
William Howard Taft
Second Chances
430(12)
William Jefferson Clinton
Chronology of the President 442(2)
Selected Constitutional Passages 444(4)
Acknowledgments 448(2)
Selected Bibliography 450(10)
Index 460(15)
Picture Sources 475

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