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Book Synopsis George Washington by : Pamela Hill Nettleton
Download or read book George Washington written by Pamela Hill Nettleton and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2004 with total page 25 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Give readers a fresh look into the fascinating lives of six famous Americans. This Series is aligned with the Standard, "The History of the United States' Democratic Principles and Values, and the Peoples from Many Cultures Who Contributed to Its Cultural, Economic, and Political Heritage," as required by the National Council for History.
Book Synopsis Presidents and Their Generals by : Matthew Moten
Download or read book Presidents and Their Generals written by Matthew Moten and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2014-11-05 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Moten traces a sweeping history of the evolving roles of civilian and military leaders in conducting war. In doing so he demonstrates how war strategy and national security policy shifted as political and military institutions developed, and how they were shaped by leader's personalities.
Book Synopsis Presidents as Military Officers, As Commander-in-Chief with Humor and Anecdotes by : Lee McDowell
Download or read book Presidents as Military Officers, As Commander-in-Chief with Humor and Anecdotes written by Lee McDowell and published by First Edition Design Pub.. This book was released on 2021-02-14 with total page 491 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A great deal of history can be learned by reading the policies of our 44 presidents. This publication (45 chapters) describes the military activity prior to the presidency as well as the Commander-in Chief decisions of each president. Important war battles are described with photographs. For each president there is humor and anecdotes. Of the 44 presidents, 31 had served in the military. Twelve were generals. The most famous were Washington, Jackson, Taylor, Grant, Hays, and Eisenhower. Six Union veterans became presidents, as did 8 who served in World War II. Thirteen presidents would be considered heroes due to their conspicuous gallantry. Other presidents who did not serve in the military, but were effective while serving as Commander-in Chief during War.
Book Synopsis U.S. Presidents during Wartime by : Sean N. Kalic
Download or read book U.S. Presidents during Wartime written by Sean N. Kalic and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2023-09-21 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the American Revolution to the War in Afghanistan, the United States has had no shortage of conflicts on both domestic and world stages. All provide insight into the values of the presidents who led the nation through them. U.S. Presidents during Wartime: A History of Leadership takes readers through chronological entries of presidents who participated in key wars throughout U.S. history. An overview essay first considers the social, economic, and political factors that affected presidents during war. Entries beginning with the presidency of George Washington and ending with that of George W. Bush comprehensively cover each war therein, as well as the responses of the relevant presidents. Primary documents in each entry depict the perspectives of the presidents and offer opportunities for comparing and contrasting the presidents' engagements in wartime strategies. Ending each entry are chronologies of the various events and conflicts that marked the president's time in office. Moreover, entries build upon each other to help readers toward a broader understanding of the sum impact of the wars that the presidents led. While the book emphasizes the historical record, it also explores ongoing conflicts through the lens of contemporary U.S. presidents to provide readers with a complete picture of the changing nature of war over time.
Book Synopsis Leaders at War by : Elizabeth N. Saunders
Download or read book Leaders at War written by Elizabeth N. Saunders and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2011-05-27 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examining the the role played by the threat perceptions of heads of state in national foreign and military policies.
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Book Synopsis Presidents of War by : Michael Beschloss
Download or read book Presidents of War written by Michael Beschloss and published by Crown. This book was released on 2019-10-22 with total page 754 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From a preeminent presidential historian comes a “superb and important” (The New York Times Book Review) saga of America’s wartime chief executives “Fascinating and heartbreaking . . . timely . . . Beschloss’s broad scope lets you draw important crosscutting lessons about presidential leadership.”—Bill Gates Widely acclaimed and ten years in the making, Michael Beschloss’s Presidents of War is an intimate and irresistibly readable chronicle of the Chief Executives who took the United States into conflict and mobilized it for victory. From the War of 1812 to Vietnam, we see these leaders considering the difficult decision to send hundreds of thousands of Americans to their deaths; struggling with Congress, the courts, the press, and antiwar protesters; seeking comfort from their spouses and friends; and dropping to their knees in prayer. Through Beschloss’s interviews with surviving participants and findings in original letters and once-classified national security documents, we come to understand how these Presidents were able to withstand the pressures of war—or were broken by them. Presidents of War combines this sense of immediacy with the overarching context of two centuries of American history, traveling from the time of our Founders, who tried to constrain presidential power, to our modern day, when a single leader has the potential to launch nuclear weapons that can destroy much of the human race. Praise for Presidents of War "A marvelous narrative. . . . As Beschloss explains, the greatest wartime presidents successfully leaven military action with moral concerns. . . . Beschloss’s writing is clean and concise, and he admirably draws upon new documents. Some of the more titillating tidbits in the book are in the footnotes. . . . There are fascinating nuggets on virtually every page of Presidents of War. It is a superb and important book, superbly rendered.”—Jay Winik, The New York Times Book Review "Sparkle and bite. . . . Valuable and engrossing study of how our chief executives have discharged the most significant of all their duties. . . . Excellent. . . . A fluent narrative that covers two centuries of national conflict.” —Richard Snow, The Wall Street Journal
Book Synopsis Presidents as Military Officers, As Commander-in-Chief with Humor and Anecdotes by : Lee R McDowell
Download or read book Presidents as Military Officers, As Commander-in-Chief with Humor and Anecdotes written by Lee R McDowell and published by . This book was released on 2024-01-25 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A great deal of history can be learned by reading the policies of our 44 presidents. This publication (45 chapters) describes the military activity prior to the presidency as well as the Commander-in-Chief decisions of each president. Important war battles are described with photographs. For each president there is humor and anecdotes. Of the 44 presidents, 31 had served in the military. Twelve were generals. The most famous were Washington, Jackson, Taylor, Grant, Hays, and Eisenhower. Six Union veterans became presidents, as did 8 who served in World War II. Thirteen presidents would be considered heroes due to their conspicuous gallantry. Other presidents who did not serve in the military, but were effective while serving as Commander-in-Chief during War.
Book Synopsis The President’S Soldier by : Grant Griffing
Download or read book The President’S Soldier written by Grant Griffing and published by Balboa Press. This book was released on 2018-04-25 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When CJ Walker was fourteen, his mother died of cancer, leaving an irreplaceable hole in his heart. He acted out and stole a car, which got him arrested. Rather than have a felony permanently on his record, he took the option to enter Marine training at the tender age of fifteen. No one could have expected him to become top of his class and join the SEALs. Now, peace in North Korea is thoroughly in question. Admiral Waters, visiting to try and sustain a shaky equilibrium, is taken captive and all his sailors are killed. Desperate to get his friend back, the President of the United States finds himself unable to use traditional lines of defense thanks to a possible foreign hacking operation. Then, theres CJ: a young man with a special set of skills. Under pressure from the admirals daughter, the president calls on CJ to become a one-man rescue mission. To get Waters back, CJ will fight against all odds and come out victoriouswhile hopefully managing to stay alive. This is the mission hes been waiting for, and hes never been so ready.
Book Synopsis Presidents of War by : Michael R. Beschloss
Download or read book Presidents of War written by Michael R. Beschloss and published by Crown Publishing Group (NY). This book was released on 2018 with total page 786 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An intimate look at a procession of American leaders as they took the nation into conflict and mobilized their country for victory. From James Madison and the War of 1812 to Lyndon Johnson and Vietnam, we see these leaders struggling with Congress, the courts, the press, their own advisers, and antiwar protesters
Book Synopsis American Political and Military Biography by :
Download or read book American Political and Military Biography written by and published by . This book was released on 1825 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Dwight D. Eisenhower by : Jeff C. Young
Download or read book Dwight D. Eisenhower written by Jeff C. Young and published by Morgan Reynolds Publishing. This book was released on 2002 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: America's thirty-fourth president and the Supreme Commander of the Allied forces during World War II, Dwight D. Eisenhower learned as a boy in rural Kansas that it was best to approach life's challenges from a position of strength.
Book Synopsis George Washington by : Justine & Ron Fontes
Download or read book George Washington written by Justine & Ron Fontes and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A biography of George Washington which emphasizes his roles of military officer, hero, and president of the U.S.
Download or read book The Road to War written by Marvin L. Kalb and published by Brookings Institution Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Road to War examines how presidential commitments can lead to the use of American military force, and to war. Marvin Kalb notes that since World War II, "presidents have relied more on commitments, public and private, than they have on declarations of war, even though the U.S. Constitution declares rather unambiguously that Congress has the responsibility to "declare" war.
Book Synopsis Soldier Secretary by : Christopher C. Miller
Download or read book Soldier Secretary written by Christopher C. Miller and published by Center Street. This book was released on 2023-02-07 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: President Trump's last secretary of defense shares harrowing stories of missions in Iraq and Afghanistan, gives an "important" insider look at the tumultuous final days of the administration, and issues a stark warning about the readiness of the military under President Biden (Sean Hannity). If you know one thing about Chris Miller, it's that he was President Donald Trump's final Secretary of Defense, elevated to that position in the days after the 2020 election. If you know a second thing about Chris Miller, it's that he oversaw the U.S. Armed Forces during one of the most controversial and tumultuous periods the military has experienced in decades, culminating in the shocking events at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021. Yet Chris Miller is no political partisan. On the contrary, Miller has spent his adult life in the crosshairs of America's most dangerous enemies--from Middle Eastern deserts to the bowels of U.S. intelligence agencies--and emerged as one of the leading national security minds of his generation. Needless to say, Chris Miller has stories to tell. In Soldier Secretary, he reveals for the first time everything he saw--in a book that is candid, thought-provoking, and like that of no Secretary of Defense before him. This book is not just the inside story of what happened during the Trump administration--it's the inside story of what happened to America, its military, and its institutions during the two decades after September 11, 2001. Part badass, part iconoclast, Miller is an irreverent, heterodox, and always-fascinating thinker whose personal journey through war and the White House has led him to some shocking conclusions about the state of American power in 2021. With a perspective that will surprise and interest both Republicans and Democrats, Miller argues for a radical rethinking of U.S. national security strategy unlike anything since the creation of the joint armed forces in the 1980s. He offers a roadmap for how the United States can win in the era of unrestricted warfare by shedding the bloated defense bureaucracy, bringing American forces home from endless conflicts, renewing our national unity, and beating China at its own game. Miller is a true American warrior whose incredible journey from Iowa to Afghanistan to Iraq to the White House endeared him to the troops, prepared him for the unprecedented crisis of January 6, and left him deeply concerned about the future of our military and the future of our nation.
Download or read book James Madison written by Garry Wills and published by Times Books. This book was released on 2015-12-01 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A bestselling historian examines the life of a Founding Father. Renowned historian and social commentator Garry Wills takes a fresh look at the life of James Madison, from his rise to prominence in the colonies through his role in the creation of the Articles of Confederation and the first Constitutional Congress. Madison oversaw the first foreign war under the constitution, and was forced to adjust some expectations he had formed while drafting that document. Not temperamentally suited to be a wartime President, Madison nonetheless confronted issues such as public morale, internal security, relations with Congress, and the independence of the military. Wills traces Madison's later life during which, like many recent Presidents, he enjoyed greater popularity than while in office.
Book Synopsis Bad Ass Presidents by : Nicholas L. Vulich
Download or read book Bad Ass Presidents written by Nicholas L. Vulich and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2013-07-13 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ever wanted to know more about the American Presidents, but were unsure where to look? Bad Ass Presidents follows the life of America''s warrior Presidents. Forget Bush, forget Obama - They''re a bunch of pussies compared to these guys. > George Washington rode fearlessly at the head of his troops. During the French and Indian wars he had two horses shot from under him, and four bullet holes blasted through his coat. None of that discouraged him. > Andrew Jackson has the dubious honor of being the first President to have an assassination attempt made upon his life. What did the old warrior do? He charged the son-of-a-bitch with his cane and went on with his day. > William Henry Harrison defeated the Indian chief Tecumseh at the Battle of the Thames. At the Battle of Tippecanoe he had two horses shot from under him and kept fighting. > Zachary Taylor, hero of the War of 1812 and Mexican War, was propelled into office through his military fame. Because of religious beliefs he refused to be inaugurated on Sunday. As a result this was the only day in history America had neither a President nor Vice-President. > Abraham Lincoln fought in the Black Hawk War; physically tossed an agitator out of the audience at his first political rally; in the Civil War he often visited battlefields, walking here and there, with no regard for the dangers involved. > General Ulysses S. Grant was a hard drinking, rough and tumble fighter who moved from one battle to the next not stopping to rest in between. Of him all Lincoln could say was - "I can''t spare him, he fights. > Theodore Roosevelt was a gentleman, a scholar, and one of the hardest fighting Presidents we have ever had. He was a frontiersman with his own ranch in the Dakotas; he raised his own regiment, the Rough Riders, to fight in the Spanish American War; as a politician he was fearless, and fought for a "Square Deal" for everyone. Each of these Bad Asses show what a President can be if he doesn''t spend his entire day flying a desk, or hiding under it. Read the book! Learn about some real American Heroes. Read an excerpt about Andrew Jackson - Although several smaller skirmishes were fought during the preceding month, what we think of as the Battle of New Orleans was fought on January 8th, 1815. As dawn broke that morning it seemed the entire British army was advancing at once. A Congreve rocket went off near the woods. That was the signal for the attack. Battery number 6 fired a twelve pounder. Carroll''s Tennessee troops bore the brunt of the first British attack. General Adair formed his Kentucky troops behind the Tennesseans. Batteries 6, 7, and 8 opened fire taking a terrible toll on the advancing British troops, but the British kept moving forward. The Kentucky and Tennessee infantry were five or six deep by this time. Each line fired, fell back to reload, and gave the next line room to fire. All the while the British artillery roared, and their rockets burst overhead. The fire from the Tennessee and Kentucky riflemen was deadly. Their bullets chopped down the advancing British troops. The British retreated amongst the carnage. They reformed for a second charge. Once again, they were forced back by the deadly fire laid on them by the frontier riflemen. British dead and wounded littered the battlefield as they pulled back. Another attack led by British General Keene advanced on the right. The Americans fell back. For a moment it looked like the British had broken through. Beale''s rifles launched a new attack. Battery 1 and 2 soon joined in with a deadly volley that mowed down the advancing British troops. The British loss was seven hundred killed, fourteen hundred wounded. The American loss was six killed, seven wounded.
