Fit for the Presidency? : Winners, Losers, What-Ifs, and Also-Rans /

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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...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Morris, Seymour (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Lincoln : Potomac Books, An imprint of the University of Nebraska Press, 2017.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Presidential candidates.
Politics and government.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Political.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > General.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Historical.
Presidential candidates > United States > Biography.
Presidential candidates > United States > History.
United States.
États-Unis > Politique et gouvernement.
United States > Politics and government.
Biographies.
History.
Biography
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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