The American Presidency Series presents historians and the general reading public with interpretive surveys of the various presidential administrations. In the present volume, Cole presents a Jackson
Noble Cunningham's history of the fifth presidency (1817-1825) shows a young nation beset by growing pains and led by a cautious politician who had neither the learning nor the intellect of Jefferson
The first book-length assessment of Coolidge's presidency in thirty years draws on the recently opened papers of his White House physician for hitherto unknown personal information. Ferrell (history,
Reviews the policies, personality, and administration of the fifteenth president reassessing his approaches to controversial and critical national and regional events, conflicts, and trends and his ro
Examines Jefferson's performance as president, delineating the ideology and agrarian ideal underlying his decisions and actions and evaluating his abilities as policymaker, administrator, and diplomat
Examines the presidency of Richard Nixon, covering the military and diplomatic aspect of the Vietnam War, Nixon's domestic policies, Watergate, and Nixon's post-presidential years.
McJimsey (history, Iowa State University) describes the successes and failures of FDR's twelve-year presidency an administration beginning in the depression, spanning the second World War, and generat
George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, and Franklin Delano Roosevelt are always at the top of presidential rankings. But what about those presidents who consistently appear at or near the bottom of these
In nine detailed case studies based on interviews with participants and on recently released documents in the Carter presidential library, Robert Strong carefully examines how the thirty-ninth preside
