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Ambition, Pragmatism, and Party : A Political Biography of Gerald R. Ford /

Within eight turbulent months in 1974 Gerald Ford went from the United States House of Representatives, where he was the minority leader, to the White House as the country's first and only unelected president. His unprecedented rise to power, after Richard Nixon's equally unprecedented fal...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Kaufman, Scott, 1969- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lawrence, Kansas : University Press of Kansas, [2017]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • A Ford, not a King
  • Climbing the ladder of power
  • A step away
  • High expectations unrealized
  • Not speaker, but president
  • Honeymoon and hardship
  • Confronting crises
  • Image and the election
  • Politics, money, and the post-presidency
  • Conclusion.