Virginias Presidents

Author : Heather S. Cole
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1467152684
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Virginia's Presidents: A History & Guide written by Heather S. Cole and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2023-01-30 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Travel the Old Dominion and visit the museums and historic homes that tell the stories of Virginia's presidents. George Washington. Thomas Jefferson. James Madison. James Monroe. William Henry Harrison. John Tyler. Zachary Taylor. Woodrow Wilson. More US Presidents were born in Virginia than in any other state in the union. From Mount Vernon, Monticello and Montpelier to the Wilson Presidential Library, read the stories of the sites that shaped the lives of presidents. Historian and author Heather S. Cole is a guide to the places they called home.

Author : Lynne Cheney
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101980052
Total Pages : 449 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Virginia Dynasty written by Lynne Cheney and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2021-09-21 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “The narrative offers informed, exacting characterizations of the uncertain political alliances, strained interactions and ideological growing pains that elites of the post-revolutionary decades put the country through.”—Andrew Burstein, The Washington Post A vivid account of leadership focusing on the first four Virginia presidents—George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and James Monroe—from the bestselling historian and author of James Madison. From a small expanse of land on the North American continent came four of the nation's first five presidents—a geographic dynasty whose members led a revolution, created a nation, and ultimately changed the world. George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and James Monroe were born, grew to manhood, and made their homes within a sixty-mile circle east of the Blue Ridge Mountains. Friends and rivals, they led in securing independence, hammering out the United States Constitution, and building a working republic. Acting together, they doubled the territory of the United States. From their disputes came American political parties and the weaponizing of newspapers, the media of the day. In this elegantly conceived and insightful new book from bestselling author Lynne Cheney, the four Virginians are not marble icons but vital figures deeply intent on building a nation where citizens could be free. Focusing on the intersecting roles these men played as warriors, intellectuals, and statesmen, Cheney takes us back to an exhilarating time when the Enlightenment opened new vistas for humankind. But even as the Virginians advanced liberty, equality, and human possibility, they held people in slavery and were slaveholders when they died. Lives built on slavery were incompatible with a free and just society; their actions contradicted the very ideals they espoused. They managed nonetheless to pass down those ideals, and they became powerful weapons for ending slavery. They inspired Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass and today undergird the freest nation on earth. Taking full measure of strengths and failures in the personal as well as the political lives of the men at the center of this book, Cheney offers a concise and original exploration of how the United States came to be.

Author : Heather Cole
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1439677077
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Virginia's Presidents written by Heather Cole and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2023-01-30 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Travel the Old Dominion and visit the museums and historic homes that tell the stories of Virginia's presidents. George Washington. Thomas Jefferson. James Madison. James Monroe. William Henry Harrison. John Tyler. Zachary Taylor. Woodrow Wilson. More US Presidents were born in Virginia than in any other state in the union. From Mount Vernon, Monticello and Montpelier to the Wilson Presidential Library, read the stories of the sites that shaped the lives of presidents. Historian and author Heather S. Cole is a guide to the places they called home.

Author : Richard E. Dixon
Publisher : Richard E. Dixon
ISBN 13 : 9780578147581
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Virginia Presidents written by Richard E. Dixon and published by Richard E. Dixon. This book was released on 2014-08-17 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book identifies the various presidential sites in Virginia and Washington D C, and groups the sites for ease of travel. There is a historical narrative that connects the presidents in the founding and expansion of the country.

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.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Virginia Born Presidents written by and published by . This book was released on 1932 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 6 pages
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Download or read book Virginia's Presidents written by and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 6 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Heather Cole
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1439677077
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Virginia's Presidents written by Heather Cole and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2023-01-30 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Travel the Old Dominion and visit the museums and historic homes that tell the stories of Virginia's presidents. George Washington. Thomas Jefferson. James Madison. James Monroe. William Henry Harrison. John Tyler. Zachary Taylor. Woodrow Wilson. More US Presidents were born in Virginia than in any other state in the union. From Mount Vernon, Monticello and Montpelier to the Wilson Presidential Library, read the stories of the sites that shaped the lives of presidents. Historian and author Heather S. Cole is a guide to the places they called home.

Author : Kenneth W. Thompson
Publisher : UPA
ISBN 13 : 1461752639
Total Pages : 141 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Virginia Papers on the Presidency written by Kenneth W. Thompson and published by UPA. This book was released on 1984-05-21 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reflections on the presidency by insiders and outsiders. Table of Contents: Preface, Kenneth W. Thompson; ^IIntroduction, Kenneth W. Thompson; Presidents I Have Known: Reflections on Political Leadership, Senator Harry F. Byrd, Jr.; The President and the Internal Revenue Service, The Honorable Mortimer Caplin; Presidential Advisors, Personnel and the Johnson Presidency, The Honorable John Macy; The American Presidency Viewed from Britain and Australia, Professor Hedley Bull; The Presidency and Foreign Aid, The Honorable Fowler Hamilton; The Public Philosophy of the Kennedy/Johnson Presidencies, The Honorable Orville Freeman; Concluding Observations, Kenneth W. Thompson.

Author : Thomas Jefferson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Notes on the State of Virginia written by Thomas Jefferson and published by . This book was released on 1787 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: