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The presidents : a reference history
- Title
- The presidents : a reference history / Henry F. Graff, editor.
- Publication
- New York : Charles Scribner's Sons : Thomson/Gale, 2002.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Use in library | E176.1 .P918 2002 | Off-site |
Details
- Additional Authors
- Graff, Henry F. (Henry Franklin), 1921-2020
- Description
- liii, 817 pages : illustrations; 29 cm
- Summary
- Contains analyses of the U.S. Presidents and their administrations, from George Washington to George W. Bush, with discussion of each man's rise to power, the problems he confronted in office, and his effect on the institution of the presidency, and includes a chapter on the role of First Ladies in shaping the presidency.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- collective biographies.
- Biographies.
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Presidential Campaigns -- The Social History of the Presidency -- A History of the Presidency / Henry F. Graff -- The White House / William Seale -- George Washington / Jacob E. Cooke -- John Adams / Charles W. Akers -- Thomas Jefferson / Merrill D. Peterson -- James Madison / Ralph Ketcham -- James Monroe / Harry Ammon -- John Quincy Adams / Edward Pessen -- Andrew Jackson / Richard B. Latner -- Martin Van Buren / James C. Curtis -- William Henry Harrison and John Tyler / Richard P. McCormick -- James K. Polk / David M. Pletcher -- Zachary Taylor and Millard Fillmore / Norman A. Graebner -- Franklin Pierce / William W. Freehling -- James Buchanan / Elbert B. Smith -- Abraham Lincoln / Gabor S. Boritt, Matthew Pinsker -- Andrew Johnson / Albert Castel -- Ulysses S. Grant / John Y. Simon -- Rutherford B. Hayes / Keith Ian Polakoff -- James A. Garfield and Chester A. Arthur / Bernard A. Weisberger -- Grover Cleveland / John A. Garraty -- Benjamin Harrison / Louis W. Koenig -- William McKinley / Paul W. Glad -- Theodore Roosevelt / Richard M. Abrams -- William Howard Taft / Paolo E. Coletta -- Woodrow Wilson / Arthur S. Link -- Warren G. Harding / Robert K. Murray -- Calvin Coolidge / Donald R. McCoy -- Herbert Hoover / David Burner -- Franklin D. Roosevelt / David M. Kennedy -- Harry S. Truman / Robert H. Ferrell -- Dwight D. Eisenhower / Fred I. Greenstein -- John F. Kennedy / Carl M. Brauer -- Lyndon B. Johnson / Henry F. Graff -- Richard M. Nixon / Richard M. Pious -- Gerald R. Ford / Herbert S. Parmet -- Jimmy Carter / Richard S. Kirkendall -- Ronald Reagan / Alan Brinkley -- George Bush / Gaddis Smith -- William J. Clinton / David Maraniss, Bernard A. Weisberger -- George W. Bush / Nicholas D. Kristof -- The Role of First Lady: Martha Washington to Laura Bush / Betty Boyd Caroli -- Appendix; A General Bibliography of the Presidency -- Appendix B; Table of Biographical, Political, and Historical Data -- Appendix C; The Executive Office of the President.
- ISBN
- 0684312263
- 9780684312262
- LCCN
- 2002001440
- OCLC
- ocm49029341
- 49029341
- SCSB-9350603
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library