Synopses & Reviews
In the first major, in-depth study since World War II, Michael P. Riccards provides a narrative history of the U.S. presidency, showing how the chief executives and their personalities shaped national events. Riccards provides coverage of each administration from TR to George W., with extended treatment of the more important presidents. Though there is some biographical material about each chief executive, the focus is on the issues, policies, legislative achievements and foreign policy decisions for each administration. Riccards freely offers his assessments of where each president's strengths and weaknesses were, and where they triumphed and failed during their terms in office.
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This book is a broadly sweeping history of the Republic through the actions of its presidents. It not only focuses on the leadership abilities (or lack thereof) of each man, but also places each chief executive in the context of his times. Therefore, the reader comes to understand each period of United States history -- from Theodore Roosevelt's reform era and Franklin D. Roosevelt's Great Depression through George W. Bush's war on terror -- with the politics, debates, legal questions, and culture of each era fully explored.
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This book is a broadly sweeping history of the Republic through the actions of its presidents. It focuses on the leadership abilites of each man.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Riccards focuses on how the abilities, goals, and personalities of presidents have shaped the the United States in the past 100 years. This edition is updated to include chapters on Clinton and George W. Bush.