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Two Americans : Truman, Eisenhower, and a dangerous world
Two Americans weaves together the life stories of Truman and Eisenhower, showing how these future presidents, born six years apart from each other in small farming towns, were emblematic of their Midwestern upbringings and their generation. Miller also shows how their markedly different life experiences during World War I and between the world wars would shape their choices and the roles they played in the politics of the time, as Truman became the quintessential politician, and Eisenhower, the thoroughgoing anti-politician. Their personalities come alive in vividly described scenes of their collaboration during the war-torn 1940s; their dual, but different, roles in bringing the war to an end and shaping the postwar world; their growing disapproval of each other; and, finally, in 1952, the hostile bickering and maneuvering that characterized the passing of presidential power from one to the other. -- Provided by publisher.
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Honest Abe
There was no equivalent of Abigail Adams, reading great history books to her young son and teaching him patriotic poems. In it he found not only technical legal materials, but also the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution.
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Lincoln Revisited
In February 2009, America celebrates the bicentennial of the birth of Abraham Lincoln, and the pace of new Lincoln books and articles has already quickened. From his cabinet's politics to his own struggles with depression, Lincoln remains the most written-about story in our history. And each year historians find something new and important to say about the greatest of our Presidents. Lincoln Revisited is a masterly guidePub to what's new and what's noteworthy in this unfolding story-a brilliant gathering of fresh scholarship by the leading Lincoln historians of our time. Brought together by The Lincoln Forum, they tackle uncharted territory and emerging questions; they also take a new look at established debates-including those about their own landmark works. Here, these well-known historians revisit key chapters in Lincoln's legacy-from Matthew Pinsker on Lincoln's private life and Jean Baker on religion and the Lincoln marriage to Geoffrey Perret on Lincoln as leader and Frank J. Williams on Lincoln and civil liberties in wartime. The eighteen original essays explore every corner of Lincoln's world-religion and politics, slavery and sovereignty, presidential leadership and the rule of law, the Second Inaugural Address and the assassination. In his 1947 classic, Lincoln Reconsidered, David Herbert Donald confronted the Lincoln myth. Today, the scholars in Lincoln Revisited give a new generation of students, scholars, and citizens the perspectives vital for understanding the constantly reinterpreted genius of Abraham Lincoln.
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Lincoln's Last Months (review)
The author made this summary comment, which for this reader was a fresh idea, and illustrates the value of defining the subject as he has done: \"By the time of his second Inaugural, Lincoln had welded together a strong cabinet, one that promised to be second to none in American history had its master lived to maintain its unity through the next four years\" (92). Throughout the telling of these heavily charged events, the author brings a valuable assembling of comments from a variety of public figures, literary figures, and the press.
Journal Article
Aid to Education: A Better Deal
DURING Holy Week, President Johnson made a statement to a visiting group of Southern Baptists that combined rather homey references to the \"grace that I had learned at my Baptist mother's knee\" with a social analysis of a sophistication not often found in discourses of that character.
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Ted Sorensen of Nebraska
DURING the Kennedy years I would feel a little jolt from time to time when I would see, conferring with the President and the National Security Council in Hyannisport, or advising Harvard advisers in the White House, or sitting there in Palm Beach in the midst of the Irish Mafia-- Ted Sorensen of the University of Nebraska YMCA.
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