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Subject(s)

• Presidents—United States—History [Browse]
• Political leadership—United States—History [Browse]
• Presidents—United States—Biography [Browse]
• United States—Politics and government [Browse]

Related name

• Urofsky, Melvin I. [Browse]

Series

Garland reference library of the humanities ; v. 1971. [More in this series]

Summary note

"The American Presidents is a collection of articles that analyze and evaluate the presidential careers of the men who have occupied the office since its inception in 1789. In this volume the leading presidential historians in the United States offer insights into what makes a president great, mediocre, or - in the case of most of them - something in between."--Jacket.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Action note

Committed to retain in perpetuity — ReCAP Shared Collection (HUL)

Contents

• George Washington / Dorothy Twohig
• John Adams / Alan V. Briceland
• Thomas Jefferson / Andrew Burstein
• James Madison / F. Thornton Miller
• James Monroe / Daniel Preston
• John Quincy Adams / Greg Russell
• Andrew Jackson / Russell L. Riley
• Martin Van Buren / David J. Bodenhamer
• William Henry Harrison ; John Tyler / Leonard L. Richards
• James Knox Polk / Wayne Cutler
• Zachary Taylor ; Millard Fillmore / Paul Finkelman
• Franklin Pierce / Melvin I. Urofsky
• James Buchanan / Paul Finkelman
• Abraham Lincoln / Richard J. Ellis
• Andrew Johnson ; Ulysses Simpson Grant / Edgar A. Toppin
• Rutherford Birchard Hayes / Ari Hoogenboom
• James Abram Garfield ; Chester Alan Arthur / R. Hal Williams
• Stephen Grover Cleveland / Robert M. Goldman
• Benjamin Harrison ; William McKinley / Lewis L. Gould
• Theodore Roosevelt / Jonathan Lurie
• William Howard Taft / David W. levy
• Thomas Woodrow Wilson / John Milton Cooper, Jr.
• Warren Gamaliel Harding / Robert F. Martin
• John Calvin Coolidge / John W. Johnson
• Herbert Clark Hoover / Paul W. Glad.
• Franklin Delano Roosevelt / Sidney M. Milkis
• Harry S. Truman / Alonzo L. Hamby
• Dwight David Eisenhower / Nancy Beck Young
• John Fitzgerald Kennedy / Barbara A. Perry
• Lyndon Baines Johnson / Steven F. Lawson
• Richard Milhous Nixon / Joan Hoff
• Gerald Rudolph Ford / William C. Berman
• James Earl (Jimmy) Carter, Jr. / William E. Leuchtenburg
• Ronald Wilson Reagan / Richard M. Pious
• George Herbert Walker Bush / Herbert S. Parmet
• William Jefferson (Bill) Clinton / Robert D. Holsworth.

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ISBN

0815321848 (alk. paper)

LCCN

^^^99038134^

OCLC

41885804

RCP

H - S

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