James Buchanan: The American Presidents Series: The 15th President, 1857-1861Macmillan, 2004 M06 7 - 192 páginas A provocative reconsideration of a presidency on the brink of Civil War |
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... democracy, Lincoln union and freedom, Cleveland rugged honesty. Theodore Roosevelt and Wilson, said FDR, were both “moral leaders, each in his own way and his own time, who used the presidency as a pulpit." To succeed, presidents must ...
... democracy. It is the aim of the American Presidents series to present the grand panorama of our chief executives in volumes compact enough for the busy reader, lucid enough for the student, authoritative enough for the scholar. Each ...
... Democrat proposed for high appointive posts by every Democratic president from the 1820s on, he had been a hopeful contender for a presidential nomination in 1844 and a serious one in 1848 and 1852. Four years later, in 1856, the year ...
... Democratic party, Buchanan represented one of the few remaining national institutions in the United States when he ... Democracy remained the voice of all the people—North and South. As the male citizens of the American Republic ...
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2 Wheatland to the White House 18491856 | 45 |
3 The Buchanan PresidencyTheory and Practice | 75 |
4 Appeasing the South The Final Months of the Buchanan Presidency | 107 |
AFTERWORD | 145 |
Notes | 153 |
Milestones | 157 |
Selected Bibliography | 159 |
Index | 163 |
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James Buchanan: The American Presidents Series: The 15th President, 1857-1861 Jean H. Baker Vista previa limitada - 2004 |