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Author : Lee Modesitt
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (213 download)
Download or read book Polk, Slavery, and Texas Versus Clay, Union, and Liberty written by Lee Modesitt and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Charles Grier Sellers
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400879795
Total Pages : 532 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)
Download or read book James K. Polk, Volume II written by Charles Grier Sellers and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2015-12-08 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This definitive biography of James K. Polk, the second of three projected volumes, covers the most important years of Polk's political career-from a twice-defeated gubernatorial candidate in Tennessee to dark-horse candidate for the presidency and one of the most successful first eighteen months of any American president. The months of Polk’s administration covered here contain the bulk of his expansionist program-the annexation of Texas, the settlement of the Oregon boundary with Great Britain, and the war with Mexico that led to the acquisition of California and New Mexico. This period also covers the first session of the 29th Congress, which produced under Polk’s guidance the most important domestic legislation of any Congress of the century. Originally published in 1966. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Author : Cassius Marcellus Clay
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Total Pages : 550 pages
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Download or read book The Writings of Cassius Marcellus Clay written by Cassius Marcellus Clay and published by . This book was released on 1848 with total page 550 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David E. Johnson
Publisher : Taylor Trade Publications
ISBN 13 : 9781589791503
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (915 download)
Download or read book A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the White House written by David E. Johnson and published by Taylor Trade Publications. This book was released on 2004 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book profiles eighteen of our funniest elections, from 1828, the first election in which all states had electors, to the election from hell in 2000. The book also includes chapters on Watergate and impeachment, and a gallery of official photographs.
Author : Michael F. Holt
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199830894
Total Pages : 1298 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (998 download)
Download or read book The Rise and Fall of the American Whig Party written by Michael F. Holt and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2003-05-01 with total page 1298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here, Michael F. Holt gives us the only comprehensive history of the Whigs ever written. He offers a panoramic account of the tumultuous antebellum period, a time when a flurry of parties and larger-than-life politicians--Andrew Jackson, John C. Calhoun, Martin Van Buren, and Henry Clay--struggled for control as the U.S. inched towards secession. It was an era when Americans were passionately involved in politics, when local concerns drove national policy, and when momentous political events--like the Annexation of Texas and the Kansas-Nebraska Act--rocked the country. Amid this contentious political activity, the Whig Party continuously strove to unite North and South, emerging as the nation's last great hope to prevent secession.
Author : Jon Meacham
Publisher : Random House Trade Paperbacks
ISBN 13 : 0553393987
Total Pages : 753 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (533 download)
Download or read book And There Was Light written by Jon Meacham and published by Random House Trade Paperbacks. This book was released on 2023-10-17 with total page 753 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Pulitzer Prize–winning biographer Jon Meacham chronicles the life of Abraham Lincoln, charting how—and why—he confronted secession, threats to democracy, and the tragedy of slavery to expand the possibilities of America. “Meacham has given us the Lincoln for our time.”—Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Winner of the Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize • Longlisted for the Biographers International Plutarch Award • One of the Best Books of the Year: The Christian Science Monitor, Kirkus Reviews A president who governed a divided country has much to teach us in a twenty-first-century moment of polarization and political crisis. Hated and hailed, excoriated and revered, Abraham Lincoln was at the pinnacle of American power when implacable secessionists gave no quarter in a clash of visions bound up with money, race, identity, and faith. In him we can see the possibilities of the presidency as well as its limitations. At once familiar and elusive, Lincoln tends to be seen as the greatest of American presidents—a remote icon—or as a politician driven more by calculation than by conviction. This illuminating new portrait gives us a very human Lincoln—an imperfect man whose moral antislavery commitment, essential to the story of justice in America, began as he grew up in an antislavery Baptist community; who insisted that slavery was a moral evil; and who sought, as he put it, to do right as God gave him to see the right. This book tells the story of Lincoln from his birth on the Kentucky frontier in 1809 to his leadership during the Civil War to his tragic assassination in 1865: his rise, his self-education, his loves, his bouts of depression, his political failures, his deepening faith, and his persistent conviction that slavery must end. In a nation shaped by the courage of the enslaved of the era and by the brave witness of Black Americans, Lincoln’s story illustrates the ways and means of politics in a democracy, the roots and durability of racism, and the capacity of conscience to shape events.
Author : Louise A. Mayo
Publisher : Nova Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9781594547188
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (471 download)
Download or read book President James K. Polk written by Louise A. Mayo and published by Nova Publishers. This book was released on 2006 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The First Men, America's Presidents series explains the personal and public life of each President of the United States. Their qualities of character and leadership are aptly interpreted and offer strong role models for all citizens. Presidential successes are recorded for posterity, as are the pitfalls that should be guarded against in the future. This series also explains the domestic reasons and world backdrop for the expansion of the Executive Office of the President. The President of the United States is perhaps the most coveted position in the world and this series reveals the lives of all those successfully elected, how each performed as president, and how each is to be measured in history. The collective life stories of the presidents reveal the greatness that America represents in the world.
Author : Amy S. Greenberg
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307475999
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (74 download)
Download or read book A Wicked War written by Amy S. Greenberg and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2013-08-13 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The definitive history of the often forgotten U.S.-Mexican War paints an intimate portrait of the major players and their world—from Indian fights and Manifest Destiny, to secret military maneuvers, gunshot wounds, and political spin. “If one can read only a single book about the Mexican-American War, this is the one to read.” —The New York Review of Books Often overlooked, the U.S.-Mexican War featured false starts, atrocities, and daring back-channel negotiations as it divided the nation, paved the way for the Civil War a generation later, and launched the career of Abraham Lincoln. Amy S. Greenberg’s skilled storytelling and rigorous scholarship bring this American war for empire to life with memorable characters, plotlines, and legacies. Along the way it captures a young Lincoln mismatching his clothes, the lasting influence of the Founding Fathers, the birth of the Daughters of the American Revolution, and America’s first national antiwar movement. A key chapter in the creation of the United States, it is the story of a burgeoning nation and an unforgettable conflict that has shaped American history.
Author : Scott John Hammond
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 800 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (16 download)
Download or read book Campaigning for President in America, 1788–2016 written by Scott John Hammond and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2016-04-25 with total page 800 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What does it take to get elected president of the United States—"leader of the free world"? This book gives readers insight into the major issues and events surrounding American presidential elections across more than two centuries, from the earliest years of the Republic through the campaigns of the 21st century. The race for the presidency encapsulates the broader changes in American democratic culture. This book provides insight into the major issues and events surrounding American presidential elections across more than two centuries, from the earliest years of the Republic through the campaigns of the 21st century. Readers will be able to see and understand how presidential campaigns have evolved over time, and how and why the current state of campaigning for president came into being.
Author : Thomas Andrew Bailey
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 534 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (9 download)
Download or read book Voices of America written by Thomas Andrew Bailey and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 534 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An history of America told through the slogans, catch-words, mottoes, lyrics, toasts, and familiar sayings of American life.
Author : Lorle Porter
Publisher : Equine Graphics Publishing Group
ISBN 13 : 9781887932257
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (322 download)
Download or read book Politics & Peril written by Lorle Porter and published by Equine Graphics Publishing Group. This book was released on 2005 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As America stumbled toward its worst domestic crisis-civil war-political tradition took on the garb of national issues. This is the story of that volatile century, and the people-locally well-known, or those forgotten-who made it happen. This charming study of an Ohio county seat in the nineteenth century might well be described as a microcosm of the American experience. The author...[gives] a clear exposition of how an Ohio town responded to the sectional controversy that led to civil war, [and] the lingering bitterness that plagued Mount Vernon in the aftermath of the war...an excellent example of how a professional historian can reclaim local history from the sentimentality of local antiquarians. -William L. Fisk, Ph.D., Muskingum College Professor Emeritus ...detailed and fascinating....[the] text enables me to more accurately interpret Mount Vernon history, and appreciate the rich and diverse background of our community. -Dr. E. LeBron Fairbanks, President, Mount Vernon Nazarene University Politics & Peril paints a wonderful picture of the big names of the area and the influence they had on local, state and national politics...[and] sheds light onto the influential people of the 1800s that are now immortalized and forever remembered in street names and buildings. -Fred Main, City Editor, Mount Vernon News Master oral presenter of history Lorle Porter has made one thing after another interesting and suspenseful...her treatment of the Peace Democrats during the Civil War...does not hide their racism...but makes clear and vivid their abhorrence of the wholesale killing in warfare of people of both sides. -Tony Stoneburner, Ph.D., Denison University Professor Emeritus
Author : Garland A. Haas
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Politics of Disintegration written by Garland A. Haas and published by McFarland. This book was released on 1994 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1840 William Henry Harrison, a member of the Whig party, was elected president of the United States, ending the forty-year stranglehold Jacksonian Democrats had on the White House and signaling the completion of a national two-party system. But even before Harrison's inauguration, interparty conflicts over slavery had overwhelmed both parties and they had begun to disintegrate. By the onset of the Civil War, the two-party system had become a mere mechanism for carrying out sectional interests. After the war, the parties struggled to once again become national organizations, but instead they found themselves beholden to powerful special interest groups. This book examines the social, economic and political factors that affected the parties during the sixty-year period, while delineating the personalities involved and the key campaign issues.
Author : Walter R. Borneman
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 158836772X
Total Pages : 466 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (883 download)
Download or read book Polk written by Walter R. Borneman and published by Random House. This book was released on 2009-04-14 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Polk, Walter R. Borneman gives us the first complete and authoritative biography of a president often overshadowed in image but seldom outdone in accomplishment. James K. Polk occupied the White House for only four years, from 1845 to 1849, but he plotted and attained a formidable agenda: He fought for and won tariff reductions, reestablished an independent Treasury, and, most notably, brought Texas into the Union, bluffed Great Britain out of the lion’s share of Oregon, and wrested California and much of the Southwest from Mexico. On reflection, these successes seem even more impressive, given the contentious political environment of the time. In this unprecedented, long-overdue warts-and-all look at Polk’s life and career, we have a portrait of an expansionist president and decisive statesman who redefined the country he led, and we are reminded anew of the true meaning of presidential accomplishment and resolve.
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Total Pages : 472 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book History of American Presidential Elections, 1789-1984 written by and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Michael J. Gerhardt
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0062877208
Total Pages : 598 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (628 download)
Download or read book Lincoln's Mentors written by Michael J. Gerhardt and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2021-02-02 with total page 598 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A brilliant and novel examination of how Abraham Lincoln mastered the art of leadership “Abraham Lincoln had less schooling than all but a couple of other presidents, and more wisdom than every one of them. In this original, insightful book, Michael Gerhardt explains how this came to be." –H.W. Brands, Wall Street Journal In 1849, when Abraham Lincoln returned to Springfield, Illinois, after two seemingly uninspiring years in the U.S. House of Representatives, his political career appeared all but finished. His sense of failure was so great that friends worried about his sanity. Yet within a decade, Lincoln would reenter politics, become a leader of the Republican Party, win the 1860 presidential election, and keep America together during its most perilous period. What accounted for the turnaround? As Michael J. Gerhardt reveals, Lincoln’s reemergence followed the same path he had taken before, in which he read voraciously and learned from the successes, failures, oratory, and political maneuvering of a surprisingly diverse handful of men, some of whom he had never met but others of whom he knew intimately—Henry Clay, Andrew Jackson, Zachary Taylor, John Todd Stuart, and Orville Browning. From their experiences and his own, Lincoln learned valuable lessons on leadership, mastering party politics, campaigning, conventions, understanding and using executive power, managing a cabinet, speechwriting and oratory, and—what would become his most enduring legacy—developing policies and rhetoric to match a constitutional vision that spoke to the monumental challenges of his time. Without these mentors, Abraham Lincoln would likely have remained a small-town lawyer—and without Lincoln, the United States as we know it may not have survived. This book tells the unique story of how Lincoln emerged from obscurity and learned how to lead.
Author : Fred L. Israel
Publisher : Holiday House
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 490 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Running for President: 1789-1896 written by Fred L. Israel and published by Holiday House. This book was released on 1994 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looks at each campaign and its slogans and memorabilia.
Author : David M. Kennedy
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780669178395
Total Pages : 636 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (783 download)
Download or read book The Brief American Pageant written by David M. Kennedy and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 636 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
