The Ordeal Of Woodrow Wilson

Author : Herbert Hoover
Publisher : Woodrow Wilson Center Press
ISBN 13 : 9780943875415
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Ordeal of Woodrow Wilson written by Herbert Hoover and published by Woodrow Wilson Center Press. This book was released on 1992-10 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The great tragedy of the twenty-eighth President as witnessed by his loyal lieutenant, and the thirty-first President.

Author : Herbert Hoover
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ordeal of Woodrow Wilson written by Herbert Hoover and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Herbert Hoover
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Ordeal of Woodrow Wilson written by Herbert Hoover and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Gene Smith
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1504039742
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book When the Cheering Stopped written by Gene Smith and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2016-10-04 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The poignant true story of an American president struck by tragedy at the height of his glory. This New York Times bestseller vividly chronicles the stunning decline in Woodrow Wilson’s fortunes after World War I and draws back the curtain on one of the strangest episodes in the history of the American presidency. Author Gene Smith brilliantly captures the drama and excitement of Wilson’s efforts at the Paris Peace Conference to forge a lasting concord between enemies, and his remarkable coast-to-coast tour to sway national opinion in favor of the League of Nations. During this grueling jaunt across 8,000 miles in less than a month, Wilson suffered a debilitating stroke that left him an invalid and a recluse, shrouding his final years in office in shadow and mystery. In graceful and dramatic prose, Smith portrays a White House mired in secrets, with a commander in chief kept behind closed doors, unseen by anyone except his doctor and his devoted second wife, Edith Galt Wilson, a woman of strong will with less than an elementary school education who, for all intents and purposes, led the government of the most powerful nation in the world for two years. When the Cheering Stopped is a gripping true story of duty, courage, and deceit, and an unforgettable portrait of a visionary leader whose valiant struggle and tragic fall changed the course of world history.

Author : Charles Rappleye
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1451648693
Total Pages : 576 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Herbert Hoover in the White House written by Charles Rappleye and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-05-10 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A deft, filled-out portrait of the thirty-first president…by far the best, most readable study of Herbert Hoover’s presidency to date” (Publishers Weekly) that draws on rare and intimate sources to show he was temperamentally unsuited for the job. Herbert Clark Hoover was the thirty-first President of the United States. He served one term, from 1929 to 1933. Often considered placid, passive, unsympathetic, and even paralyzed by national events, Hoover faced an uphill battle in the face of the Great Depression. Many historians dismiss him as merely ineffective. But in Herbert Hoover in the White House, Charles Rappleye investigates memoirs and diaries and thousands of documents kept by members of his cabinet and close advisors to reveal a very different figure than the one often portrayed. This “gripping” (Christian Science Monitor) biography shows that the real Hoover lacked the tools of leadership. In public Hoover was shy and retiring, but in private Rappleye shows him to be a man of passion and sometimes of fury, a man who intrigued against his enemies while fulminating over plots against him. Rappleye describes him as more sophisticated and more active in economic policy than is often acknowledged. We see Hoover watching a sunny (and he thought ignorant) FDR on the horizon, experimenting with steps to relieve the Depression. The Hoover we see here—bright, well meaning, energetic—lacked the single critical element to succeed as president. He had a first-class mind and a second-class temperament. Herbert Hoover in the White House is an object lesson in the most, perhaps only, talent needed to be a successful president—the temperament of leadership. This “fair-handed, surprisingly sympathetic new appraisal of the much-vilified president who was faced with the nation's plunge into the Great Depression…fills an important niche in presidential scholarship” (Kirkus Reviews).

Author : Seth Cotlar
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
ISBN 13 : 0813942535
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Historian in Chief written by Seth Cotlar and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2019-04-23 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presidents shape not only the course of history but also how Americans remember and retell that history. From the Oval Office they instruct us what to respect and what to reject in our past. They regale us with stories about who we are as a people, and tell us whom in the pantheon of greats we should revere and whom we should revile. The president of the United States, in short, is not just the nation’s chief legislator, the head of a political party, or the commander in chief of the armed forces, but also, crucially, the nation’s historian in chief. In this engaging and insightful volume, Seth Cotlar and Richard Ellis bring together top historians and political scientists to explore how eleven American presidents deployed their power to shape the nation’s collective memory and its political future. Contending that the nation’s historians in chief should be evaluated not only on the basis of how effective they are in persuading others, Historian in Chief argues they should also be judged on the veracity of the history they tell.

Author : Addison Gayle
Publisher : Peter Smith Publisher
ISBN 13 : 9780844660004
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Richard Wright written by Addison Gayle and published by Peter Smith Publisher. This book was released on 1983 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A biography of the black author who died in 1960.

Author : Woodrow Wilson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Congressional Government written by Woodrow Wilson and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Richard Norton Smith
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 498 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An Uncommon Man written by Richard Norton Smith and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Ray Stannard Baker
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
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Download or read book Woodrow Wilson written by Ray Stannard Baker and published by . This book was released on 1931 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: