The Little Giant Book Of American Presidents

Author : Glen Vecchione
Publisher : Sterling Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9781402726927
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Little Giant Book of American Presidents written by Glen Vecchione and published by Sterling Publishing Company. This book was released on 2007 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of little-known facts about the U.S. presidents that provides a glimpse into their personalities, covering such topics as nicknames, families, finances, food and drink, homes, sports, hobbies, and oddities, as well as their lives after the presidency.

Author : Jen Arena
Publisher : Golden Books
ISBN 13 : 1524770337
Total Pages : 26 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book My Little Golden Book About the Statue of Liberty written by Jen Arena and published by Golden Books. This book was released on 2018-05-08 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now the littlest readers can learn about how the Statue of Liberty came to be—and what it means to people all over the world. In this engaging book, preschoolers will learn the fascinating story behind the creation of the Statue of Liberty. Simple words and bright artwork bring to life the story of the people—a professor, a sculptor, a poet, a newspaperman—who helped establish this famous landmark. Little ones will learn that the torch was created first, in time for America's 100th birthday, and displayed in a park. And they'll gain a clear understanding of what the Statue of Liberty has always meant to people around the world. Fun facts, such as how schoolchildren gave their pennies to help pay for the base of the statue, complete this charming nonfiction Little Golden Book.

Author : Michael J. Pellowski
Publisher : Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9781402723902
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Little Giant Book of Football Facts written by Michael J. Pellowski and published by Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.. This book was released on 2005 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains more that 1,000 interesting and odd football facts and feats, from remakable records to goofy gridiron mishaps.

Author : Byron C. Hulsey
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Everett Dirksen and His Presidents written by Byron C. Hulsey and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: He was as recognizable by his mellifluous voice as by his rumpled appearance. Everett McKinley Dirksen was one of the most colorful American politicians of the twentieth century and was considered by some the most powerful man in Congress. Now Byron Hulsey takes a new look at the senator from Illinois to show how his interactions with the White House made him a pivotal figure in American politics during the Cold War era. Hulsey traces Dirksen's relationships with four presidents to show how the senator shifted from being a major Republican critic of Truman to an ardent Republican supporter of LBJ. Dirksen learned "suprapartisan politics" from Eisenhower and became Ike's most trusted confidant on Capitol Hill; then as Senate Minority Leader he played a key role in furthering the ambitious goals of the Johnson administration. Hulsey analyzes the reasons for Dirksen's dramatic policy reversals, telling how the senator who in 1950 warned of the dangers of a leviathan executive came to embrace the power of the presidential office to provide for the social welfare, contain the spread of communism, and guarantee civil rights. Drawing on primary sources at the Johnson presidential library and the Dirksen Congressional Center, Hulsey shows how the senator combined legislative craftsmanship with the ability to get bills passed. He links Dirksen to the issues and events that shaped the 1950s and 1960s and tells how the Johnson-Dirksen coalition moved domestic policy forward through civil rights legislation but ran aground on the insurmountable problem of Vietnam. Hulsey also uses Dirksen's career to explore change, continuity, and conflict in the Republican Party over two decades. He explains how the GOP evolved through internal political and ideological tensions from the Taft-Eisenhower contest through the McCarthy era to the beginning of Nixon administration, revealing Dirksen's role in that process. By the time of Dirksen's death in 1969, the Vietnam War, the explosion of urban riots, and President Nixon's preference for the politics of resentment put an end to the suprapartisan spirit. Hulsey's book recreates a Washington milieu the likes of which may never be seen again, offering a lens for viewing postwar American politics while painting the definitive political portrait of one of our most remarkable leaders.

Author : K. R. Hobbie
Publisher : Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9781402715488
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.8X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Little Giant Book of Weird & Wacky Facts written by K. R. Hobbie and published by Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.. This book was released on 2005 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains hundreds of interesting trivia questions and answers on a variety of subjects.

Author : Carl Albert
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 9780806132006
Total Pages : 414 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Little Giant written by Carl Albert and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 1999-09-01 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At age six, Carl Albert knew he wanted to serve in the United States Congress. In 1947 he realized his dream when he was elected to serve in the House of Representatives alongside John Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, and Richard Nixon. In Little Giant, Albert relates the story of his life in Oklahoma and his road to Congress, where after eight years of service he joined its leadership and shaped the legislation known as Kennedy's New Frontier and Johnson's Great Society. In 1971 he began his own Speakership; six years later, when it ended, Congress had been reshaped and had weathered the constitutional crisis of Richard Nixon's "Imperial Presidency."

Author : Glen Vecchione
Publisher : Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9781402722912
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Magnet Science written by Glen Vecchione and published by Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.. This book was released on 2007-03 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This appealingly packaged kitin the same style as the enormously popular String Games (80,000 sold) and Tangram Puzzles (45,000 sold)is absolutely guaranteed to attract kids attention.

Author : Michael J. Pellowski
Publisher : Sterling Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9781402742736
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Little Giant Book of Baseball Facts written by Michael J. Pellowski and published by Sterling Publishing Company. This book was released on 2007 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides more than one-thousand baseball facts about pennant races, pitching feats, hitting achievements, player nicknames, and baseball slang.

Author : Robert Dallek
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1429998105
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Harry S. Truman written by Robert Dallek and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2008-09-02 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The plainspoken man from Missouri who never expected to be president yet rose to become one of the greatest leaders of the twentieth century In April 1945, after the death of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the presidency fell to a former haberdasher and clubhouse politician from Independence, Missouri. Many believed he would be overmatched by the job, but Harry S. Truman would surprise them all. Few chief executives have had so lasting an impact. Truman ushered America into the nuclear age, established the alliances and principles that would define the cold war and the national security state, started the nation on the road to civil rights, and won the most dramatic election of the twentieth century—his 1948 "whistlestop campaign" against Thomas E. Dewey. Robert Dallek, the bestselling biographer of John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson, shows how this unassuming yet supremely confident man rose to the occasion. Truman clashed with Southerners over civil rights, with organized labor over the right to strike, and with General Douglas MacArthur over the conduct of the Korean War. He personified Thomas Jefferson's observation that the presidency is a "splendid misery," but it was during his tenure that the United States truly came of age.

Author : Ingersoll Lockwood
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 47 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book 1900; or, The last President written by Ingersoll Lockwood and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-06-03 with total page 47 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lockwood's novel of political satire describes political tug war. It showcases the concepts of a President who won by a narrow margin. It reflects the American society which is under siege by socialists and anarchy. The common people are ignored by politicians and ripped off by Wall Street.