Biography - Schlesinger, Arthur M., Jr. (1917-2007): An ...
Author: Gale Reference Team Binding: Digital Format: HTML Number Of Pages: 20 Publication Date: 2007-01-01 Release Date: 2007-12-16 [... more]
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War and the American Presidency
What We Needed to Know in 2002.: "In 1998, Donald Rumsfeld, (Paul) Wolfowitz, (Richard) Perle were among the eighteen signers of an open letter to President Clinton arguing that regime change in Iraq 'needs to become the aim of American foreign [... more]
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Dwight D. Eisenhower
Amazon.com Review: "I have been in politics ... most of my adult life. There's no more active political organization in the world than the armed forces of the United States." So said Dwight Eisenhower, the subject of journalist-novelist Tom [... more]
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The Disuniting of America: Reflections on a ...
Amazon.com Review: In this updated version of a modern classic, acclaimed historian Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. strikes a blow against radical multiculturalism. The rising cult of ethnicity, he argues, threatens a common American identity, imperiling the [... more]
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George H. W. Bush: The American Presidents Series: The ...
Useful reflections on Bush the Elder: This book, authored by Timothy Naftali, ends with the following comment (Page 176): "George W. Bush's controversial presidency led to a positive reassessment of his father's time in the White House. . . .(M)any [... more]
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Zachary Taylor: The 12th President, 1849-1850 (The ...
President Taylor and his Virtues: To bring perspective to this year's eventful presidential campaign, I have been reading several volumes of the American Presidents Series edited by the late Arthur Schlesinger Jr., and Sean Willentz. Each volume consists [... more]
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William McKinley (The American Presidents)
McKinley as an underappreciated president: This is yet another entry into The American Presidents series of brief biographies, under the general editorship of Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. One of the more intriguing facets of this series is the sometime use of [... more]
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Prelude To Independence: The Newspaper War on Britain, ...
The Power of a truly Free Press: Arthur Schlesinger's "Prelude to Independence" is a really great study of the role and impect of the American press in the years just preceeding the American Revolution. The press of the colonies was far from [... more]
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Martin Van Buren (The American Presidents)
Author: Ted Widmer Author: Arthur M. Schlesinger Binding: Hardcover Dewey Decimal Number: 973.57092 Format: Bargain Price Number Of Pages: 208 Publication Date: 2005-01-05 Release Date: 2004-12-09 [... more]
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American Presidents: Martin Van Buren
Nice brief biography of President Martin Van Buren: This is one of the books in "The American Presidents" series, focusing on Martin Van Buren. The overall series editor, Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., speaks of what is at stake with the presidency, [... more]
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The Age of Jackson
Awful: I quit reading this book halfway through. Having said that, I'll offer the following observations. First, the research is incredible- he made good use of primary source material, and cited it very thoroughly. That's why I gave him two stars. [... more]
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William McKinley (The American Presidents)
McKinley as an underappreciated president: This is yet another entry into The American Presidents series of brief biographies, under the general editorship of Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. One of the more intriguing facets of this series is the sometime use of [... more]
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