Fit for the presidency? : winners, losers, what-ifs, and also-rans /
Every four years Americans embark on the ultimate carnival, the Super Bowl of democracy: a presidential election campaign filled with endless speeches, debates, handshakes, and passion. But what about the candidates themselves? In Fit for the Presidency? Seymour Morris Jr. applies an executive recru...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Lincoln :
Potomac Books, An imprint of the University of Nebraska Press,
2017.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: what our founding fathers looked for in a potential president
- George Washington, 1789
- DeWitt Clinton, 1812
- William Henry Harrison, 1840
- Abraham Lincoln, 1860
- Jefferson Davis, 1861
- Samuel J. Tilden, 1876
- William Randolph Hearst, 1904
- William Gibbs McAdoo, 1920
- Herbert Hoover, 1928
- Wendell Willkie, 1940
- George C. Marshall, 1944
- Henry A. Wallace, 1948
- Barry Goldwater, 1964
- Robert F. Kennedy, 1968
- Ronald Reagan, 1980
- Conclusion: appraising the candidate.