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Presidents by fate : nine who ascended through death or resignation /
"Throughout the history of the United States, only nine men have become president without having first been elected. These men were elevated to the Oval Office by the death or failure of a standing president, and their legacies are as mixed as their circumstances. This book evaluates the simila...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Jefferson, North Carolina :
McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers,
[2019]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: Common bond, shared burden
- Preface: A unique fraternity
- Prologue: Hometown disappointment
- John Tyler : establishing precedent
- Millard Fillmore : repeating history
- Andrew Johnson : lack of temperament
- Chester Alan Arthur : the unlikeliest president
- Theodore Roosevelt : never one who enjoyed it more
- Calvin Coolidge : boom times
- Harry Truman : better than expected
- Lyndon Johnson : political disciple
- Gerald Ford : restoration project
- Tyler, Texas, and setting the record straight
- Fillmore and the seeds of discontent
- The first Johnson struggles to measure up
- The surprising story of Chester Alan Arthur
- America's change agent : Theodore Roosevelt
- Reinventing "Silent Cal" Coolidge
- Overachieving with "Give 'em Hell Harry"
- The second Johnson weaves a powerful web
- Gerald Ford : right man for a time gone wrong
- Where they rank
- Humble beginnings; absence of ambition
- Accidental similarities
- Party abandonment or abdication
- Racial ramifications
- Alternate agendas
- Lasting accomplishments and what ifs
- Political pros or system politicians
- Epilogue: it will happen again.