Id Rather Be Right Than Be President

Author : Stephen J. Goedert
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 059509015X
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book "I'd Rather Be Right Than Be President" written by Stephen J. Goedert and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2000-04-11 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A story set before, during, and immediately after the Jacksonian Period and the critical years leading up to the Civil War. Former Speaker of the House, Senator, Secretary of State, organizer of the Whig political party, Henry Clay, had lost the race to the White House three times already, and now was his chance to take the Presidency for himself. Zachary Taylor declines to run as the Chief Executive, giving Clay another shot. With the use of the telegraph and help from newspaper editor Horace Greeley, Daniel Webster, and others, the first presidential debate in 1848 between Clay and Martin Van Buren and Lewis Cass was set. One of the most popular senators of all time, the Kentuckian Henry Clay goes into the debate with fire and vengeance to make up for his previous losses. Whoever comes out the winner of this historical occasion would go on and follow James Polk to the Presidency, and attempt to delay the inevitable—American Civil War.

Author : George S. Kaufman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781494020866
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book I'd Rather Be Right written by George S. Kaufman and published by . This book was released on 2013-10 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a new release of the original 1937 edition.

Author : William Safire
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195340612
Total Pages : 887 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Safire's Political Dictionary written by William Safire and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 887 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Featuring more than one thousand new, rewritten, and updated entries, this reference on American politics explains current terms in politics, economics, and diplomacy.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book LIFE written by and published by . This book was released on 1955-10-24 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: LIFE Magazine is the treasured photographic magazine that chronicled the 20th Century. It now lives on at LIFE.com, the largest, most amazing collection of professional photography on the internet. Users can browse, search and view photos of today’s people and events. They have free access to share, print and post images for personal use.

Author : Scott Farris
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 0762784210
Total Pages : 393 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Almost President written by Scott Farris and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2013-05-07 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Veteran political journalist Scott Farris tells the stories of legendary presidential also-rans, from Henry Clay to Stephen Douglas, from William Jennings Bryan to Thomas Dewey, and from Adlai Stevenson to Al Gore. He also includes concise profiles of every major candidate nominated for president who never reached the White House but who helped promote the success of American democracy. Farris explains how Barry Goldwater achieved the party realignment that had eluded FDR, how George McGovern paved the way for Barack Obama, and how Ross Perot changed the way all presidential candidates campaign. There is Al Smith, the first Catholic nominee for president; and Adlai Stevenson, the candidate of the "eggheads" who remains the beau ideal of a liberal statesman. And Farris explores the potential legacies of recent runners-up John Kerry and John McCain. The book also includes compact and evocative portraits of such men as John C. Fremont, the first Republican Party presidential candidate; and General Winfield Scott, whose loss helped guarantee the Union victory in the Civil War. This new edition of Almost President brings the work up-to-date with a section that explores the results and ramifications of the 2012 presidential election.

Author : Bill Kauffman
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1625648421
Total Pages : 443 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Poetry Night at the Ballpark and Other Scenes from an Alternative America written by Bill Kauffman and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2015-06-15 with total page 443 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bill Kauffman has carved out an idiosyncratic identity quite unlike any other American writer. Praised by the likes of Gore Vidal, Benjamin Schwarz, and George McGovern, he has, with a distinctive and slashingly witty, learnedly allusive style, illumed forgotten corners of American history, articulated a defiant and passionate localism, and written with love and dark humor of his repatriation. Poetry Night at the Ballpark gathers the best of Bill Kauffman's essays and journalism in defense and explication of his alternative America--or Americas. Its discrete pieces are bound by a thematic unity and propulsive energy and are full of unexpected (yet startlingly apposite) connections and revelatory linkages. Whether he's writing about conservative Beats, backyard astronomers, pacifist West Pointers, or Middle America in the movies, Bill Kauffman will challenge, maybe even change, the way you look at American politics and the American provinces.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1078 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Atlantic Monthly written by and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 1078 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Total Pages : 912 pages
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Author : Jan R. Van Meter
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226849686
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tippecanoe and Tyler Too written by Jan R. Van Meter and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2008-11 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "So the next time we hear or see one of these verbal symbols used to sell a product, illustrate a point, make a joke, reshape a current cause, or resuscitate a forgotten ideal, we will finally be equipped to understand its broader role as a key source of the values we continue to share and fight about. Taken together in Van Meter's able hands, these famous slogans and catchphrases give voice to our common history even as we argue about where it should lead us."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Harry S. Truman
Publisher : University of Missouri Press
ISBN 13 : 9780826212030
Total Pages : 614 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dear Bess written by Harry S. Truman and published by University of Missouri Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 614 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This correspondence, which encompasses Truman's courtship of his wife, his service in the senate, his presidency, and after, reveals not only the character of Truman's mind but also a shrewd observer's view of American politics.