Download or read book Directory of American Presidents written by Yuksel Atillasoy and published by Woodside House. This book was released on 2001 with total page 4 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a compilation of data about the wives, children, parents, birth and death dates and location, party, term, education, occupation, religion and notable events of 43 presidents.
Download or read book Presidential Sites written by William G. Clotworthy and published by McDonald and Woodward Publishing Company. This book was released on 1998 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presidential Sites identifies, provides the location of, and briefly describes more than 1000 places that are associated with the Presidents of the United States. The directory includes extant sites directly associated with the presidents, such as birthplaces, marriage sites, homes, battlefields, places of business, churches, libraries, and burial sites, as well as commemorative sites such as monuments, memorials, and public and private institutions. Entries are arranged by President, in chronological order according to a president's first association with a site. The location and significance of each site are described briefly. Basic chronological data are provided for each president. Appendices list colleges attended by the presidents and presidential sites by state and country. A bibliography lists the most useful books available on presidential sites. This book is the most complete, readily accessible, and convenient-to-use directory available on presidential sites. It will serve as both a reference volume and traveler's companion for those wanting rapid and easy access to a comprehensive listing of presidential sites. This book should be especially in demand and useful as interest in presidential history and sites grows.
Download or read book The American Presidents written by Tracy Irons-Georges and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 870 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 42 essays are arranged chronologically by administration. An Alphabetical List at the beginning of each volume helps readers find a particular entry. Essays range from 6 to 40 pages and each includes a sidebar on the vice president and one on the Firs
Download or read book List of Presidents of the United States written by Dick Underwood and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-02-03 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: List of Presidents of the United States ALL 50 The President of the United States is the elected head of state and head of government of the United States. The president leads the executive branch of the federal government and is the commander-in-chief of the United States Armed Forces. The president is indirectly elected to a four-year term by the people through the Electoral College. Since the office was established in 1789, 44 men have served as president. The first, George Washington, won a unanimous vote of the Electoral College. Grover Cleveland served two non-consecutive terms in office, and is counted as the nation's 22nd and 24th presidents; the incumbent, Donald Trump, is therefore the 45th president. There are currently five living former presidents. The most recent death of a former president was on December 26, 2006 with the death of Gerald Ford; the most recently serving president to die was Ronald Reagan on June 5, 2004. William Henry Harrison's presidency was the shortest in American history. He died 31 days after taking office in 1841. Franklin D. Roosevelt served the longest, over twelve years, before dying early in his fourth term in 1945. He is the only U.S. president to have served more than two terms. Since the ratification of the Twenty-second Amendment to the United States Constitution in 1951, no person may be elected president more than twice, and no one who has served more than two years of a term to which someone else was elected may be elected more than once.[1] Of the elected presidents, four died in office of natural causes (William Henry Harrison, Zachary Taylor, Warren G. Harding, and Franklin D. Roosevelt), four were assassinated (Abraham Lincoln, James A. Garfield, William McKinley and John F. Kennedy), and one resigned (Richard Nixon). John Tyler was the first vice president to assume the presidency during a presidential term, and set the precedent that a vice president who does so becomes the fully functioning president with his own presidency, as opposed to a caretaker president. The Twenty-fifth Amendment to the Constitution put Tyler's precedent into law in 1967. It also established a mechanism by which a mid-term vacancy in the vice presidency could be filled. Richard Nixon was the first president to fill a vacancy under this Provision when he appointed Gerald Ford to the office. Later, Ford became the second to do so when he appointed Nelson Rockefeller to succeed him. Previously, a mid-term vacancy was left unfilled. Throughout most of its history, American politics has been dominated by political parties. The Constitution is silent on the issue of political parties, and at the time it came into force in 1789, there were no parties. Soon after the 1st Congress convened, factions began rallying around dominant Washington Administration officials, such as Alexander Hamilton and Thomas Jefferson. Greatly concerned about the very real capacity of political parties to destroy the fragile unity holding the nation together, Washington remained unaffiliated with any political faction or party throughout his eight-year presidency. He was, and remains, the only U.S. president never to be affiliated with a political party.[2] Since Washington, every president has been affiliated with a political party at the time they assumed office.
Download or read book The Presidents of the United States 1789 1962 written by Library of Congress. General Reference and Bibliography Division and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Cowboy Presidents written by David A. Smith and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2021-02-11 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For an element so firmly fixed in American culture, the frontier myth is surprisingly flexible. How else to explain its having taken two such different guises in the twentieth century—the progressive, forward-looking politics of Rough Rider president Teddy Roosevelt and the conservative, old-fashioned character and Cold War politics of Ronald Reagan? This is the conundrum at the heart of Cowboy Presidents, which explores the deployment and consequent transformation of the frontier myth by four U.S. presidents: Theodore Roosevelt, Lyndon B. Johnson, Ronald Reagan, and George W. Bush. Behind the shape-shifting of this myth, historian David A. Smith finds major events in American and world history that have made various aspects of the “Old West” frontier more relevant, and more useful, for promoting radically different political ideologies and agendas. And these divergent adaptations of frontier symbolism have altered the frontier myth. Theodore Roosevelt, with his vigorous pursuit of an activist federal government, helped establish a version of the frontier myth that today would be considered liberal. But then, Smith shows, a series of events from the Lyndon Johnson through Jimmy Carter presidencies—including Vietnam, race riots, and stagflation—seemed to give the lie to the progressive frontier myth. In the wake of these crises, Smith’s analysis reveals, the entire structure and popular representation of frontier symbols and images in American politics shifted dramatically from left to right, and from liberal to conservative, with profound implications for the history of American thought and presidential politics. The now popular idea that “frontier American” leaders and politicians are naturally Republicans with conservative ideals flows directly from the Reagan era. Cowboy Presidents gives us a new, clarifying perspective on how Americans shape and understand their national identity and sense of purpose; at the same time, reflecting on the essential mutability of a quintessentially national myth, the book suggests that the next iteration of the frontier myth may well be on the horizon.
Download or read book A Visual Encyclopedia of American Presidents 1789 1901 written by Jon Roper and published by Southwater Publishing. This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The American president is the most powerful and influential political leader in the world. As commander-in-chief of the armed forces, head of state and head of government, a handful of men have been elected to this exalted position. Some rose to the challenge of office, carving out pivotal and pioneering roles in charting the progress of the social, economic, political and geographical history of North America. Others disappeared quietly from public life, unremarkable in office, or presiding in peaceful times. This visual directory of the early presidents of America looks at the roll call of the first men voted into high office. Their social backgrounds, education, military or legal training and career path to the presidency are presented along with an insightful analysis of the success each made of the role as statesman and politician. Each presidency is presented within the context of national and international tensions, wars and social developments, as well as the expansion of America westward: George Washington was the first president and a founding father of the American constitution; Thomas Jefferson was the author of the Declaration of Independence and responsible for the Louisiana Purchase; and Abraham Lincoln's tenure was inextricably bound up with the Civil War. Illustrated with over 225 stunning archive photographs and paintings, this fascinating and accessible volume explores the formation of the United States and the political leaders who helped to steer a course through a century of domestic and international history.
Download or read book Don t Know Much About the American Presidents written by Kenneth C. Davis and published by Hachette+ORM. This book was released on 2012-02-21 with total page 611 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From a New York Times bestselling author, a captivating and unique overview of the first 44 presidents of the United States, from George Washington to Barack Obama. Using his entertaining question-and-answer style to chart the history of the presidency itself as well as debunk the myths of America's. Here's the young Lincoln building his mother's coffin and dragging a tragic burden through the snow to the burial; Theodore Roosevelt, America's youngest president, shockingly pushed into the presidency–with greatness thrust upon him; FDR, the only man elected four times, concealing his crippling disability from the American public as he led the nation through depression and world war; and Lyndon Johnson, reelected in a landslide, then crushed by the weight of the Vietnam War. For history buffs and history-phobes alike, this book is packed with memorable facts that will change your understanding of the highest office in the land and the men who have occupied it.
Download or read book Presidents and Professors in American Colleges and Universities written by Robert Cecil Cook and published by . This book was released on 1935 with total page 702 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Presidential Places written by Gary W. Ferris and published by John F. Blair, Publisher. This book was released on 1999 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a guide to historic sites related to the American presidents.
Download or read book Presidents Professors in American Colleges and Universities written by Robert C. Cook and published by . This book was released on 1935 with total page 680 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The American Presidents written by Norman S. Cohen and published by Pasadena, Calif. : Salem Press. This book was released on 1989 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following a thoughtful, introductory overview of the presidency, this volume is arranged chronologically and offers a selective list of primarily book-length studies on each of the forty presidents and the presidency in general. The critical annotations furnish insights into each book's contents and approach to the subject. While other guides to the presidents and the presidency exist, this one offers annotations far more extensive than are to be found elsewhere. In addition, the information covers the general historical problems related to any particular presidency, and will assist the student in selecting topics for further school-related research papers.
Download or read book Presidents and Professors in American Colleges and Universities an Illustrated Biographical Directory of Administrators written by Robert Cecil Cook and published by . This book was released on 1936 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Biographies of the Presidents of the United States written by Grace Hadley Fuller and published by . This book was released on 1937 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Biographical Directory of the United States Executive Branch 1774 1989 written by Robert Sobel and published by Greenwood. This book was released on 1990 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book "contains career biographies of all cabinet heads, as well as of presidents, vice-presidents, and presidents of the Continental Congress. Only those individuals confirmed in office by the Senate have been included; acting cabinet officials -- of whom there were many, especially in the nineteenth century -- have been omitted since almost all served for very short periods of time. Each biography includes the most significant dates in the subject's life, family and other personal information, religious affiliation where available, service prior to and after cabinet duty, and place of death and interment. In addition, each biography contains a short bibliographic reference to important primary and secondary works to be consulted for additional information"--Preface.
Download or read book Homes and Libraries of the Presidents written by William G. Clotworthy and published by McDonald and Woodward Publishing Company. This book was released on 2008 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the lives of the presidents of the United States, their families, and the various homes, libraries, and other sites associated with each.
Download or read book The United States Executive Branch 2 Volumes written by Robert Sobel and published by Greenwood. This book was released on 2003-08-30 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Basic biographical information (including birth and death dates, parent and spouse names, career in and out of government, and awards and honors) is provided for every president, vice-president, and cabinet head of the U.S. executive branch of government, as well as the presidents of the Continental Congress. Some bibliographic information is also provided. Only those individuals who were confirmed in office by the Senate have been included. Both volumes of the set provide listings of officeholders by date and position. Following the biographical entries, appendixes compile information related to other government service, military service by branch, education, place of birth, and marital information. The material covers the first officeholders of the George W. Bush administration, not including late arrivals to cabinet-level office such as John Snow or Tom Ridge. Annotation (c)2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).
