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Format:
Book
Title:
"To the best of my ability" : the American presidents
ISBN:
9780789450739
Edition:
First American edition.
Publication:
New York : Dorling Kindersley Pub., 2000.
Physical Description:
479 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 24 cm
General Note:
Includes index.
Contents:
The presidents. George Washington / Gordon S. Wood ; John Adams / James M. Banner, Jr. ; Thomas Jefferson / Joseph J. Ellis ; James Madison / Jack N. Rakove ; James Monroe / Jack N. Rakove ; John Quincy Adams / John Patrick Digins ; Andrew Jackson / Robert V. Reminini ; Martin Van Buren / Richard M. Pious ; William Henry Harrison / Daniel Walker Howe ; John Tyler / Richard M. Pious ; James K. Polk / Thomas Fleming ; Zachary Taylor / Catherine Clinton ; Millard Fillmore / Jean Harvey Baker ; Franklin Pierce / James A. Rawley ; James Buchanan / Jean Harvey Baker ; Abraham Lincoln / James M. McPherson ; Andrew Johnson / Hans L. Trefousse ; Ulysses S. Grant / Michael Les Benedict ; Rutherford B. Hayes / James A. Rawley ; James A. Garfield / Ari Hoogenboom ; Chester A. Arthur / Bernard A. Weisberger ; Grover Cleveland / Vincent P. De Santis ; Benjamin Harrison / Catherine Clinton ; William McKinley / Morton Keller ; Theodore Roosevelt / Allen Weinstein ; William Howard Taft / Mark C. Carnes ; Woodrow Wilson / James Chace ; Warren G. Harding / Morton Keller ; Calvin Coolidge / Robert Cowley ; Herbert Hoover / Robert Dallek ; Franklin D. Roosevelt / Susan Ware ; Harry S. Truman / Allen Weinstein ; Dwight D. Eisenhower / Herbert S. Parmet ; John F. Kennedy / Richard Reeves ; Lyndon B. Johnson / Robert Dallek ; Richard M. Nixon / Tom Wicker ; Gerald R. Ford / Laura Kalman ; Jimmy Carter / Douglas Brinkely ; Ronald Reagan / James T. Patterson ; George Bush / Herbert S. Parmet ; Bill Clinton / Evan Thomas -- The campaigns and inaugural addresses.
Summary:
An illustrated look at the forty-two men who have served as President of the United States describes the campaigns, elections, administration, events, and legacy of each of America's leaders, from Washington to Clinton.
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