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Walking with Presidents

Author : Alex Poinsett
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 9780847697410
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (974 download)

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Download or read book Walking with Presidents written by Alex Poinsett and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2000 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the last weeks of the 1960 presidential race, Louis Martin pulled off a minor miracle. With two days to go before the election, this passionate civil rights advocate and Democratic activists put two million pamphlets into the hands of black voters across America, informing them of Senator John F. Kennedy's sympathetic phone call to Martin Luther King, Jr., then languishing in a Georgia prison. The center of gravity in black partisan support shifted, and Kennedy won by a hair. This is just one example of the remarkable influence Louis Martin had on national politics for more than four decades. Now, for the first time, the story of Louis Martin's life is told. Walking with Presidents traces the career of an African American who rose from crusading journalist to preeminent presidential advisor and civil rights liason in the Kennedy, Johnson, and Carter administrations. Martin was the consummate insider, unconcerned about who got credit for his work so long as he could advance his mission--bringing African Americans into the political mainstream.

Walking with Presidents

Author : Michael A. Endicott
Publisher : Booksurge Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781439219751
Total Pages : 520 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (197 download)

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Download or read book Walking with Presidents written by Michael A. Endicott and published by Booksurge Publishing. This book was released on 2009-05-11 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Walking with Presidents: Stories from Inside the Perimeter, by Michael Endicott, chronicles the extraordinary career of an American original. From 1967 until 1986, author Michael Endicott sat watch over Presidents, Vice Presidents, and a Secretary of State. In these years, across a hundred foreign nations, and through every state of the Union, author Endicott carried out his duty during some of the most harrowing times of the Twentieth Century. From Vietnam, political assassinations, Presidential scandal, and retirement discussions with former President Nixon, Endicott has seen it all and has lived a life worthy of a Hollywood movie. Walking with Presidents puts a personal face on those who were protected and a very public face on the inner workings of the U.S. Secret Service. The result is a fascinating and intimate portrait of a man, his times, and the noble spirit of those who serve and protect. This is a gallant book sure to please memoir fans and history buffs alike.

Five Presidents

Author : Clint Hill
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1476794146
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (767 download)

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Download or read book Five Presidents written by Clint Hill and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-05-02 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in hardcover in 2016 by Gallery Books.

How to Fight Presidents

Author : Daniel O'Brien
Publisher : Crown
ISBN 13 : 038534757X
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (853 download)

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Download or read book How to Fight Presidents written by Daniel O'Brien and published by Crown. This book was released on 2014-03-18 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Make no mistake: Our founding fathers were more bandanas-and-muscles than powdered-wigs-and-tea. As a prisoner of war, Andrew Jackson walked several miles barefoot across state lines while suffering from smallpox and a serious head wound received when he refused to polish the boots of the soldiers who had taken him captive. He was thirteen years old. A few decades later, he became the first popularly elected president and served the nation, pausing briefly only to beat a would-be assassin with a cane to within an inch of his life. Theodore Roosevelt had asthma, was blind in one eye, survived multiple gunshot wounds, had only one regret (that there were no wars to fight under his presidency), and was the first U.S. president to win the Medal of Honor, which he did after he died. Faced with the choice, George Washington actually preferred the sound of bullets whizzing by his head in battle over the sound of silence. And now these men—these hallowed leaders of the free world—want to kick your ass. Plenty of historians can tell you which president had the most effective economic strategies, and which president helped shape our current political parties, but can any of them tell you what to do if you encounter Chester A. Arthur in a bare-knuckled boxing fight? This book will teach you how to be better, stronger, faster, and more deadly than the most powerful (and craziest) men in history. You’re welcome.

Lives of the Presidents

Author : Kathleen Krull
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780152008086
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book Lives of the Presidents written by Kathleen Krull and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1998 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focuses on the lives of presidents as parents, husbands, pet-owners, and neighbors while also including humorous anecdotes about hairstyles, attitudes, diets, fears, and sleep patterns.

Presidential Temples

Author : Benjamin Hufbauer
Publisher : CultureAmerica
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Presidential Temples written by Benjamin Hufbauer and published by CultureAmerica. This book was released on 2005 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the visual and material cultures of presidential commemoration--memorials and monuments, libraries and archives--and the problematic ways in which presidents themselves have largely taken over their own commemoration. The author sees these various commemorative sites as playing a key role in the construction of our collective political and cultural self-images and as another sign of our preoccupation with celebrity culture. Ultimately, he contends, these presidential temples reflect not only our civil religion but also the extraordinary expansion of executive authority--and presidential self-commemoration--since FDR.

The Presidents and the Pastime

Author : Curt Smith
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 1496207394
Total Pages : 613 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (962 download)

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Download or read book The Presidents and the Pastime written by Curt Smith and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2018-06 with total page 613 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Presidents and the Pastime draws on Curt Smith's extensive background as a former White House presidential speechwriter to chronicle the historic relationship between baseball, the "most American" sport, and the U.S. presidency. Smith, who USA TODAY calls "America's voice of authority on baseball broadcasting," starts before America's birth, when would‑be presidents played baseball antecedents. He charts how baseball cemented its reputation as America's pastime in the nineteenth century, such presidents as Lincoln and Johnson playing town ball or giving employees time off to watch. Smith tracks every U.S. president from Theodore Roosevelt to Donald Trump, each chapter filled with anecdotes: Wilson buoyed by baseball after suffering disability; a heroic FDR saving baseball in World War II; Carter, taught the game by his mother, Lillian; Reagan, airing baseball on radio that he never saw--by "re-creation." George H. W. Bush, for whom Smith wrote, explains, "Baseball has everything." Smith, having interviewed a majority of presidents since Richard Nixon, shares personal stories on each. Throughout, The Presidents and the Pastime provides a riveting narrative of how America's leaders have treated baseball. From Taft as the first president to throw the "first pitch" on Opening Day in 1910 to Obama's "Go Sox!" scrawled in the guest register at the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 2014, our presidents have deemed it the quintessentially American sport, enriching both their office and the nation.

Inside Camp David

Author : Michael Giorgione
Publisher : Little, Brown
ISBN 13 : 0316509604
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (165 download)

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Download or read book Inside Camp David written by Michael Giorgione and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2017-10-24 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first-ever insider account of Camp David, the president's private retreat, on the seventy-fifth anniversary of its inception. Never before have the gates of Camp David been opened to the public. Intensely private and completely secluded, the president's personal campground is situated deep in the woods, up miles of unmarked roads that are practically invisible to the untrained eye. Now, for the first time, we are allowed to travel along the mountain route and directly into the fascinating and intimate complex of rustic residential cabins, wildlife trails, and athletic courses that make up the presidential family room. For seventy-five years, Camp David has served as the president's private retreat. A home away from the hustle and bustle of Washington, this historic site is the ideal place for the First Family to relax, unwind, and, perhaps most important, escape from the incessant gaze of the media and the public. It has hosted decades of family gatherings for thirteen presidents, from Franklin D. Roosevelt to Barack Obama, including holiday celebrations, reunions, and even a wedding. But more than just a weekend getaway, Camp David has also been the site of private meetings and high-level summits with foreign leaders to foster diplomacy. Former Camp David commander Rear Admiral Michael Giorgione, CEC, USN (Ret.), takes us deep into this enigmatic and revered sanctuary. Combining fascinating first-person anecdotes of the presidents and their families with storied history and interviews with commanders both past and present, he reveals the intimate connection felt by the First Families with this historic retreat.

The President's Book of Secrets

Author : David Priess
Publisher : PublicAffairs
ISBN 13 : 1610395964
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book The President's Book of Secrets written by David Priess and published by PublicAffairs. This book was released on 2016-03-01 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every president has had a unique and complicated relationship with the intelligence community. While some have been coolly distant, even adversarial, others have found their intelligence agencies to be among the most valuable instruments of policy and power. Since John F. Kennedy's presidency, this relationship has been distilled into a personalized daily report: a short summary of what the intelligence apparatus considers the most crucial information for the president to know that day about global threats and opportunities. This top-secret document is known as the President's Daily Brief, or, within national security circles, simply "the Book." Presidents have spent anywhere from a few moments (Richard Nixon) to a healthy part of their day (George W. Bush) consumed by its contents; some (Bill Clinton and George H. W. Bush) consider it far and away the most important document they saw on a regular basis while commander in chief. The details of most PDBs are highly classified, and will remain so for many years. But the process by which the intelligence community develops and presents the Book is a fascinating look into the operation of power at the highest levels. David Priess, a former intelligence officer and daily briefer, has interviewed every living president and vice president as well as more than one hundred others intimately involved with the production and delivery of the president's book of secrets. He offers an unprecedented window into the decision making of every president from Kennedy to Obama, with many character-rich stories revealed here for the first time.

The Last of the President's Men

Author : Bob Woodward
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1501116460
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book The Last of the President's Men written by Bob Woodward and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-10-13 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bob Woodward exposes one of the final pieces of the Richard Nixon puzzle in his new book The Last of the President’s Men. Woodward reveals the untold story of Alexander Butterfield, the Nixon aide who disclosed the secret White House taping system that changed history and led to Nixon’s resignation. In forty-six hours of interviews with Butterfield, supported by thousands of documents, many of them original and not in the presidential archives and libraries, Woodward has uncovered new dimensions of Nixon’s secrets, obsessions and deceptions. The Last of the President’s Men could not be more timely and relevant as voters question how much do we know about those who are now seeking the presidency in 2016—what really drives them, how do they really make decisions, who do they surround themselves with, and what are their true political and personal values?

Under This Roof

Author : Paul Brandus
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1493019317
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book Under This Roof written by Paul Brandus and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2015-09-29 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Like taking a tour of the White House with a gifted storyteller at your side!” Why, in the minutes before John F. Kennedy was murdered, was a blood-red carpet installed in the Oval Office? If Abraham Lincoln never slept in the Lincoln Bedroom, where did he sleep? Why was one president nearly killed in the White House on inauguration day—and another secretly sworn in? What really happened in the Situation Room on September 11, 2001? History leaps off the page in this “riveting,” “fast-moving” and “highly entertaining” book on the presidency and White House in Under This Roof, from award-winning White House-based journalist Paul Brandus. Reporting from the West Wing briefing room since 2008, Brandus—the most followed White House journalist on Twitter (@WestWingReport)—weaves together stories of the presidents, their families, the events of their time—and an oft-ignored major character, the White House itself. From George Washington—who selected the winning design for the White House—to the current occupant, Barack Obama—the story of the White House is the story of America itself, Brandus writes. You’ll: Walk with John Adams through the still-unfinished mansion, and watch Thomas Jefferson plot to buy the Louisiana Territory Feel the fear and panic as British invaders approach the mansion in 1814—and Dolley Madison frantically saves a painting of Washington Gaze out the window with Abraham Lincoln as Confederate flags flutter in the breeze on the other side of the Potomac Be in the room as one president is secretly sworn in, and another gambles away the White House china in a card game Stand by the presidential bed as one First Lady—covering up her husband’s illness from the nation—secretly makes decisions on his behalf Learn how telephones, movies, radio, TV changed the presidency—and the nation itself Through triumph and tragedy, boom and bust, secrets and scandals, Brandus takes you to the presidential bedroom, movie theater, Situation Room, Oval Office and more. Under This Roof is a “sensuous account of the history of both the home of the President, and the men and women who designed, inhabited, and decorated it. Paul Brandus captivates with surprising, gloriously raw observations.”

Leadership

Author : Doris Kearns Goodwin
Publisher : Simon & Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1476795932
Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (767 download)

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Download or read book Leadership written by Doris Kearns Goodwin and published by Simon & Schuster. This book was released on 2019-10-01 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now an epic documentary event on the HISTORY Channel! The illuminating, bestselling exploration on leadership from Pulitzer Prize–winning author and presidential historian Doris Kearns Goodwin, and also the inspiration for the HISTORY Channel multipart series Abraham Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt. “After five decades of magisterial output, Doris Kearns Goodwin leads the league of presidential historians” (USA TODAY). In her “inspiring” (The Christian Science Monitor) Leadership, Doris Kearns Goodwin draws upon the four presidents she has studied most closely—Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Lyndon B. Johnson (in civil rights)—to show how they recognized leadership qualities within themselves and were recognized as leaders by others. By looking back to their first entries into public life, we encounter them at a time when their paths were filled with confusion, fear, and hope. Leadership tells the story of how they all collided with dramatic reversals that disrupted their lives and threatened to shatter forever their ambitions. Nonetheless, they all emerged fitted to confront the contours and dilemmas of their times. At their best, all four were guided by a sense of moral purpose. At moments of great challenge, they were able to summon their talents to enlarge the opportunities and lives of others. Does the leader make the times or do the times make the leader? “If ever our nation needed a short course on presidential leadership, it is now” (The Seattle Times). This seminal work provides an accessible and essential road map for aspiring and established leaders in every field. In today’s polarized world, these stories of authentic leadership in times of apprehension and fracture take on a singular urgency. “Goodwin’s volume deserves much praise—it is insightful, readable, compelling: Her book arrives just in time” (The Boston Globe).

Five Days in November

Author : Clint Hill
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1476731519
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (767 download)

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Download or read book Five Days in November written by Clint Hill and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-11-19 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Secret Service agent Clint Hill reveals the stories behind the iconic images of the five tragic days surrounding President John F. Kennedy’s assassination in this 60th anniversary edition of the New York Times bestseller. On November 22, 1963, three shots were fired in Dallas, President John F. Kennedy was assassinated, and the world stopped for four days. For an entire generation, it was the end of an age of innocence. That evening, a photo ran on the front pages of newspapers across the world, showing a Secret Service agent jumping on the back of the presidential limousine in a desperate attempt to protect the President and Mrs. Kennedy. That agent was Clint Hill. Now Hill commemorates the sixtieth anniversary of the tragedy with this stunning book containing more than 150 photos, each accompanied by his incomparable insider account of those terrible days. A story that has taken Hill half a century to tell, this is a “riveting, stunning narrative” (Herald & Review, Illinois) of personal and historical scope. Besides the unbearable grief of a nation and the monumental consequences of the event, the death of JFK was a personal blow to a man sworn to protect the first family, and who knew, from the moment the shots rang out in Dallas, that nothing would ever be the same.

Kid President's Guide to Being Awesome

Author : Robby Novak
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0062358693
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (623 download)

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Download or read book Kid President's Guide to Being Awesome written by Robby Novak and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2015-02-03 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This is LIFE, people! You've got air coming through your nose! You've got a heartbeat! That means it's time to do something!" announces Kid President in his book, Kid President's Guide to Being Awesome. From YouTube sensation (75 million views and counting!) to Hub Network summer series star, Kid President—ten-year-old Robby Novak—and his videos have inspired millions to dance more, to celebrate life, and to throw spontaneous parades. In his Guide to Being Awesome, Kid President pulls together lists of awesome ideas to help the world, awesome interviews with his awesome celebrity friends (he has interviewed Beyoncé!), and a step-by-step guide to make pretty much everything a little bit awesomer. Grab a corn dog and settle in to your favorite comfy chair. Pretend it's your birthday! (In fact, treat everyone like it's THEIR birthday!) Kid President is here with a 240-page, full-color Guide to Being Awesome that'll spread love and inspire the world.

Memories of the White House; the Home Life of Our Presidents from Lincoln to Roosevelt

Author : William Henry Crook
Publisher : Theclassics.Us
ISBN 13 : 9781230396491
Total Pages : 56 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (964 download)

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Download or read book Memories of the White House; the Home Life of Our Presidents from Lincoln to Roosevelt written by William Henry Crook and published by Theclassics.Us. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1911 edition. Excerpt: ... WHITE HOUSE MEMORIES OF PRESIDENT GARFIELD AND PRESIDENT ARTHUR One of the first evidences I had that President Garfield's family had taken up their home life in the White House occurred a few days after the fourth of March, 1881, when the new President was inaugurated. On the third of March, President Hayes had given a great banquet in honor of the incoming administration, and the office force was trying to settle down to routine, when I happened to go on an errand which took me along the great corridor running through the main floor of the Executive Mansion. I was walking rapidly, thinking hard about the errand, looking neither to the right nor to the left, when suddenly, just as I reached the foot of the grand staircase leading to the living rooms of the President's family on the floor above, I was startled by a shrill cry of warning shouted in a boyish voice: "Hoop-la!! Get off the track or you '11 be run down!" Without an instant's hesitation I sprang to one side, and as I did so quickly glanced upward. And there, perched on one of the old-fashioned bicycles with a high wheel, was President Garfield's young son Irving, coasting down that staircase like lightning. In an instant he had reached the foot of it, " zipped" across the broad corridor, and with skill little short of marvelous turned into the East Room, the flashing steel spokes of his wheel vanishing like the tail of a comet. I stood still for a moment and gasped. I confess that I was paralyzed for that moment. That any small boy, even a son of the President of the United States, would dare to start at the head of that great staircase on a bicycle and coast down it was almost unbelievable; and that he would do so as successfully as a trained circus performer was beyond my...

Presidents

Author : James Barber
Publisher : DK Children
ISBN 13 : 9781465457707
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (577 download)

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Download or read book Presidents written by James Barber and published by DK Children. This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Short biographies of each president of the United States with something special about them.

The Big Book of Presidential Trivia

Author : Cheryl Pryor
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781886541108
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (411 download)

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Download or read book The Big Book of Presidential Trivia written by Cheryl Pryor and published by . This book was released on 2016-01-21 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'The Big Book of Presidential Trivia' is a fun way to test your knowledge about the presidents. You'll find a variety of easy questions to that are easy to real brain teasers. You'll definitely find yourself saying, "I didn't know that." Do you know... Which president had to scrub toilets while in the military... Who was the only American president to have headed two branches of government - executive and judicial... Which president was a fashion model.... Which president was the last of the Founding Fathers... Do you know which president was victim to a Wall Street scam leaving him and his wife in financial ruin... Do you know which president was a park ranger at Yellowstone National Park feeding the bears... Which president could write Greek with one hand while writing Latin with the other hand at the same time... Which president was a direct descendant of William Brewster, the Pilgrim leader who arrived on the Mayflower... This president killed a man in a duel with a man who dishonored his wife... Which president could sometimes be found walking the streets of Washington, D.C. at 3:00 or 4:00 in the morning... Which president said, "Blessed are the young; for they shall inherit the national debt...". Which president said, "I'm President of the United States, and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli...". Which was the first sitting president to own an iPod... Who was the first president to travel in a submarine... Which president rode in Al Capone's limousine... Which president started the tradition of throwing out the first ball for the opening of baseball season... Which president was a runaway indentured servant... Which president sent his mistress a ticket to his inauguration?... How many U.S. presidents are known to have smoked marijuana?... 'The Big Book of Presidential Trivia' covers everything from campaign slogans, facts about elections, accomplishments and failures of the presidents, what they did before and after they were president, fun facts, bad boys that got caught, illnesses, deaths and more. A fun, entertaining, and educational trivia book about the presidents that's guaranteed to leave you saying, "I never knew that!"