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Title The presidents : a reference history / Henry F. Graff, editor
Edition 3rd ed
Published New York : Charles Scribner's Sons : 2002
Thomson/Gale, 2002
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Description 1 online resource
Series Gale virtual reference library
Gale virtual reference library.
Contents Presidential Campaigns -- The Social History of the Presidency -- A History of the Presidency / Henry F. Graff xv -- The White House / William Seale xliii -- George Washington / Jacob E. Cooke 1 -- John Adams / Charles W. Akers 23 -- Thomas Jefferson / Merrill D. Peterson 39 -- James Madison / Ralph Ketcham 57 -- James Monroe / Harry Ammon 71 -- John Quincy Adams / Edward Pessen 87 -- Andrew Jackson / Richard B. Latner 101 -- Martin Van Buren / James C. Curtis 125 -- William Henry Harrison and John Tyler / Richard P. McCormick 139 -- James K. Polk / David M. Pletcher 153 -- Zachary Taylor and Millard Fillmore / Norman A. Graebner 171 -- Franklin Pierce / William W. Freehling 185 -- James Buchanan / Elbert B. Smith 193 -- Abraham Lincoln / Gabor S. Boritt, Matthew Pinsker 209 -- Andrew Johnson / Albert Castel 225 -- Ulysses S. Grant / John Y. Simon 241 -- Rutherford B. Hayes / Keith Ian Polakoff 257 -- James A. Garfield and Chester A. Arthur / Bernard A. Weisberger 269 -- Grover Cleveland / John A. Garraty 281 -- Benjamin Harrison / Louis W. Koenig 293 -- William McKinley / Paul W. Glad 307 -- Theodore Roosevelt / Richard M. Abrams 325 -- William Howard Taft / Paolo E. Coletta 347 -- Woodrow Wilson / Arthur S. Link 365 -- Warren G. Harding / Robert K. Murray 389 -- Calvin Coolidge / Donald R. McCoy 401 -- Herbert Hoover / David Burner 415 -- Franklin D. Roosevelt / David M. Kennedy 427 -- Harry S. Truman / Robert H. Ferrell 445 -- Dwight D. Eisenhower / Fred I. Greenstein 461 -- John F. Kennedy / Carl M. Brauer 481 -- Lyndon B. Johnson / Henry F. Graff 499 -- Richard M. Nixon / Richard M. Pious 517 -- Gerald R. Ford / Herbert S. Parmet 537 -- Jimmy Carter / Richard S. Kirkendall 553 -- Ronald Reagan / Alan Brinkley 571 -- George Bush / Gaddis Smith 591 -- William J. Clinton / David Maraniss, Bernard A. Weisberger 611 -- George W. Bush / Nicholas D. Kristof 639 -- The Role of First Lady: Martha Washington to Laura Bush / Betty Boyd Caroli 657 -- Appendix A General Bibliography of the Presidency 679 -- Appendix B Table of Biographical, Political, and Historical Data 687 -- Appendix C The Executive Office of the President 743
Summary Presents in-depth profiles of each American president and his administration. Includes black-and-white portraits of the presidents and extensive bibliographies. Also features a new history of the White House and a general introduction to the presidency. For students in grades 10 and higher, as well as general readers
Notes Published as part of the Gale virtual reference library
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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SUBJECT USA President gnd
Subject Presidents -- United States -- Biography.
Presidents -- United States -- History.
Biografie
Geschichte
Politics and government
Presidents.
Wörterbuch
SUBJECT United States -- Politics and government. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140410
Subject United States.
Genre/Form Computer network resources
Biographies.
History.
Form Electronic book
Author Graff, Henry F. (Henry Franklin), 1921-
LC no. 2002001440
ISBN 0684312263
0684314479
9780684312262
9780684314471