The American Heritage Illustrated History of the Presidents - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0812932498 ISBN 13: 9780812932492

Publisher: Crown, 2000

Synopsis

Every day our lives are affected by what the American president does. But there are some things we cannot know about presidents until many years after they leave office -- what really went on behind the scenes and how great their leadership was. That is the mission of this book.

American Heritage is known and trusted for its standard-bearing single-volume histories. Its various editions on the American Civil War and World War II, edited by such distinguished scholars as James McPherson and Stephen Ambrose, are recognized as classics and have together sold more than a million copies.

The American Heritage® Illustrated History of the Presidents is newly available in a richly illustrated and completely revised edition, with the preeminent presidential historian Michael Beschloss as general editor. This new book offers fresh and penetrating portraits of all forty-two presidencies, as rendered by some of America's most distinguished scholars.

From George Washington's reluctant oath-taking through Bill Clinton's turbulent leadership, we view forty-one ambitious and fallible men through the new lens of the twenty-first century. Where did they succeed? Where did they fail? What do we know now that we could not have known at the time?

The American Heritage® Illustrated History of the Presidents offers a biographical profile of each man and a full account of the issues and events that shaped each presidency, with pathbreaking new verdicts on the modern presidents -- Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan, Bush, and Clinton. In the tradition of other American Heritage volumes, the book will serve as an indispensable reference guide for many years to come, for both seasoned observers and students just learning about the presidency.  

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About the Author:

Michael Beschloss has been described by Newsweek as "the nation's leading presidential historian." He is the author of six critically acclaimed books on American presidents, including the national best-sellers Taking Charge: The Johnson White House Tapes, which was lauded by a New York Times editorial as "an important event," and The Crisis Years, which the New York Times Book Review called the "definitive" history of John F. Kennedy and the Cold War. A frequent lecturer and regular commentator on PBS's The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, Beschloss is currently working on a history of Abraham Lincoln's assassination.

About this edition

• Publisher: Crown
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0812932498
• ISBN 13: 9780812932492
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 528
• Editor: Beschloss Michael R., American Heritage Magazine