Download or read book Our Country written by Michael Barone and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 840 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sweeping history, drawing upon election returns, political polls, news reports, and statistical abstracts that tell the story of how the country of our parents and grandparents became our country and that of our children.
Download or read book Roosevelt to Reagan written by John Hart and published by Hurst & Company. This book was released on 1987 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Inheritance written by Samuel G. Freedman and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1998-03-25 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through the prism of three working-class families, Samuel Freedman illuminates the political history of 20th-century America, commencing with the immigrant foundation that laid the foundation for FDR's New Deal, taking readers through the 1960's era of political activism and ending with today's conservatism.
Download or read book The Modern Presidency written by Malcolm Shaw and published by HarperCollins Publishers. This book was released on 1987 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book FDR and Reagan written by John W. Sloan and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sharp analysis of the similarities, differences, and impact of the presidencies of Franklin Roosevelt and Ronald Reagan--two iconic figures representing polar opposites of twentieth century American politics.
Download or read book Roosevelt to Reagan written by Hedley Donovan and published by HarperCollins Publishers. This book was released on 1985 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on his experiences as a Washington Post reporter, Fortune writer and editor, and as editor-in-chief of Time, Donovan offers revealing pictures of Presidents from Franklin Roosevelt to Ronald Reagan. He shows the Presidents in action, examines their character and their conduct in office, and guesses at the verdicts of history. He sees FDR as a great if flawed President, a superb leader in war, an unsuccessful battler against the Depression of the 1930s,and a successful social reformer. Drawing on personal exchanges and observations, he recalls his estimates of Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, Ford, and Reagan during their Presidency, and gives his appraisal today. Donovan speaks most intimately of Carter whom he served as senior advisor. He also offers fresh insights into the White House and the press, the impact of Time editorial policies regarding these Presidents, and thoughts on how to find the ideal President. ISBN 0-06-039042-5 : $19.95.
Download or read book Roosevelt to Reagan written by Hedley Donovan and published by HarperCollins Publishers. This book was released on 1985 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on his experiences as a Washington Post reporter, Fortune writer and editor, and as editor-in-chief of Time, Donovan offers revealing pictures of Presidents from Franklin Roosevelt to Ronald Reagan. He shows the Presidents in action, examines their character and their conduct in office, and guesses at the verdicts of history. He sees FDR as a great if flawed President, a superb leader in war, an unsuccessful battler against the Depression of the 1930s,and a successful social reformer. Drawing on personal exchanges and observations, he recalls his estimates of Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, Ford, and Reagan during their Presidency, and gives his appraisal today. Donovan speaks most intimately of Carter whom he served as senior advisor. He also offers fresh insights into the White House and the press, the impact of Time editorial policies regarding these Presidents, and thoughts on how to find the ideal President. ISBN 0-06-039042-5 : $19.95.
Download or read book The American Presidency written by Robert Dallek and published by . This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looks at the strengths and weaknesses of each president as well as at the times in which they served. Examines the office of the president, how it has developed, and how it has shaped the America and the modern world.
Download or read book Managing the American Economy from Roosevelt to Reagan written by Nicolas Spulber and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1989 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes and evaluates the views of theorists and practitioners directly involved with four major economic events in American history.
Download or read book America Inside Out written by David Schoenbrun and published by . This book was released on 1985-12 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The memoirs of this important journalist cover the years from World War II to the Reagan administration.
Download or read book Getting Elected written by James Leonard Reinsch and published by New York : Hippocrene Books. This book was released on 1988 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Inheritance written by Samuel G. Freedman and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In telling the stories of the members of three immigrant families, Freedman recounts the political transformation of America--the shift from Democrat to Republican, from FDR to Reagan and Gingrich. America bears the imprints of obscure hands, the hands of these three families. In their story lies the essence of a century. 15 photos.
Download or read book America s Welfare State written by Edward D. Berkowitz and published by . This book was released on 1991-03 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Useful for scholars and students both for its insights into the policy-making process and for its account of how American social policy arrived at the sorry state we find it in today." -- Contemporary Sociology
Download or read book President Reagan written by Lou Cannon and published by PublicAffairs. This book was released on 2008-08-04 with total page 916 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hailed by the New Yorker as "a superlative study of a president and his presidency," Lou Cannon's President Reagan remains the definitive account of our most significant presidency in the last fifty years. Ronald Wilson Reagan, the first actor to be elected president, turned in the performance of a lifetime. But that performance concealed the complexities of the man, baffling most who came in contact with him. Who was the man behind the makeup? Only Lou Cannon, who covered Reagan through his political career, can tell us. The keenest Reagan-watcher of them all, he has been the only author to reveal the nature of a man both shrewd and oblivious. Based on hundreds of interviews with the president, the First Lady, and hundreds of the administration's major figures, President Reagan takes us behind the scenes of the Oval Office. Cannon leads us through all of Reagan's roles, from the affable cowboy to the self-styled family man; from the politician who denounced big government to the president who created the largest peace-time deficit; from the statesman who reviled the Soviet government to the Great Communicator who helped end the cold war.
Download or read book Dutch written by Edmund Morris and published by Modern Library. This book was released on 2011-10-19 with total page 909 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, the only biography ever authorized by a sitting President--yet written with complete interpretive freedom--is as revolutionary in method as it is formidable in scholarship. When Ronald Reagan moved into the White House in 1981, one of his first literary guests was Edmund Morris, the Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer of Theodore Roosevelt. Morris developed a fascination for the genial yet inscrutable President and, after Reagan's landslide reelection in 1984, put aside the second volume of his life of Roosevelt to become an observing eye and ear at the White House. During thirteen years of obsessive archival research and interviews with Reagan and his family, friends, admirers and enemies (the book's enormous dramatis personae includes such varied characters as Mikhail Gorbachev, Michelangelo Antonioni, Elie Wiesel, Mario Savio, François Mitterrand, Grant Wood, and Zippy the Pinhead), Morris lived what amounted to a doppelgänger life, studying the young "Dutch," the middle-aged "Ronnie," and the septuagenarian Chief Executive with a closeness and dispassion, not to mention alternations of amusement, horror,and amazed respect, unmatched by any other presidential biographer. This almost Boswellian closeness led to a unique literary method whereby, in the earlier chapters of Dutch: A Memoir of Ronald Reagan, Morris's biographical mind becomes in effect another character in the narrative, recording long-ago events with the same eyewitness vividness (and absolute documentary fidelity) with which the author later describes the great dramas of Reagan's presidency, and the tragedy of a noble life now darkened by dementia. "I quite understand," the author has remarked, "that readers will have to adjust, at first, to what amounts to a new biographical style. But the revelations of this style, which derive directly from Ronald Reagan's own way of looking at his life, are I think rewarding enough to convince them that one of the most interesting characters in recent American history looms here like a colossus."
Download or read book Who Are the Criminals written by John Hagan and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2010-10-04 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How did the United States go from being a country that tries to rehabilitate street criminals and prevent white-collar crime to one that harshly punishes common lawbreakers while at the same time encouraging corporate crime through a massive deregulation of business? Why do street criminals get stiff prison sentences, a practice that has led to the disaster of mass incarceration, while white-collar criminals, who arguably harm more people, get slaps on the wrist--if they are prosecuted at all? In Who Are the Criminals?, one of America's leading criminologists provides new answers to these vitally important questions by telling how the politicization of crime in the twentieth century transformed and distorted crime policymaking and led Americans to fear street crime too much and corporate crime too little. John Hagan argues that the recent history of American criminal justice can be divided into two eras--the age of Roosevelt (roughly 1933 to 1973) and the age of Reagan (1974 to 2008). A focus on rehabilitation, corporate regulation, and the social roots of crime in the earlier period was dramatically reversed in the later era. In the age of Reagan, the focus shifted to the harsh treatment of street crimes, especially drug offenses, which disproportionately affected minorities and the poor and resulted in wholesale imprisonment. At the same time, a massive deregulation of business provided new opportunities, incentives, and even rationalizations for white-collar crime--and helped cause the 2008 financial crisis and subsequent recession. The time for moving beyond Reagan-era crime policies is long overdue, Hagan argues. The understanding of crime must be reshaped and we must reconsider the relative harms and punishments of street and corporate crimes.
Download or read book Reagan written by Brett Harper and published by New Word City. This book was released on 2017-02-20 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times bestseller. He was the unlikeliest of presidential candidates - dismissed by opponents as a movie actor, a right-winger trying to undo the work of liberals stretching back to Franklin Roosevelt. Yet Ronald Reagan made it to the White House, taking office in a time of economic turmoil, waning prestige abroad, and a general damping of the American spirit. Reagan's patriotism, wit, and optimism lifted the nation and brought it through a number of crises. An effective leader who understood the power of words, stagecraft, and symbolism, Reagan was a paradoxical blend of ideology and pragmatism. Even as he increased the tension underlying the Cold War with the Soviet Union, he embarked on a series of summits with Mikhail Gorbachev that helped defuse the arms race. When he left office, prosperity had returned and the Soviet state had collapsed. People around the world still revere him for the dawning of what he called "morning in America." Here is his story.
