Presidential Campaigns: From George Washington to George W. Bush
by Paul F. Boller
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A lively, informative and entertaining read, this book presents the history of American elections from George Washington to George W. Bush with wit and spirit, examining the silly and the scurrilous as well as the serious sidees of the nation's periodic quests for presidents.Tags
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A nice overview of over two centuries of campaigns. The latter campaigns are somewhat tarred by partisanship on the part of the author (partisanship I agree with, but it still wish it was sightly more even handed), but it barely diminishes a good book.
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Paul F. Boller, Jr. is Professor Emeritus at Texas Christian University
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- Canonical title
- Presidential Campaigns: From George Washington to George W. Bush
- Original publication date
- 1984 (first edition) (first edition); 1985 (expanded Oxford University Paperback edition) (expanded Oxford University Paperback edition); 1996 (revised edition) (revised edition); 2004 (second revised edition) (second revised edition)
- People/Characters
- George Washington; John Adams; Thomas Jefferson; James Madison; James Monroe; John Quincy Adams (show all 56); Andrew Jackson; Martin van Buren; William Henry Harrison; John Tyler; James Knox Polk; Zachary Taylor; Millard Fillmore; Franklin Pierce; James Buchanan; Abraham Lincoln; Andrew Johnson; Ulysses S. Grant; Rutherford B. Hayes; James A. Garfield; Chester A. Arthur; Grover Cleveland; Benjamin Harrison; William McKinley; Theodore Roosevelt; William Howard Taft; Woodrow Wilson; Warren G. Harding; Calvin Coolidge; Herbert Hoover; Franklin Delano Roosevelt; Harry S. Truman; Dwight D. Eisenhower; John F. Kennedy; Lyndon Baines Johnson; Richard M. Nixon; Gerald Ford; Jimmy Carter; Ronald Reagan; George H. W. Bush; Bill Clinton; George W. Bush; James G. Blaine; William Jennings Bryan; John C. Calhoun; Henry Clay; Thomas E. Dewey; Stephen A. Douglas; Al Gore; Horace Greeley; Hubert H. Humphrey; Alf Landon; Al Smith; Robert Taft; Henry Wallace; Wendell Wilkie
- Important places
- USA
- Important events
- Vietnam War
- Dedication
- for
John
James, Jr.
John, Jr., and Marina - First words
- Preface
Presidential campaigns have been mean and nasty lately, but the fact is they weren't very nice in the old days either.
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- Languages
- English
- Media
- Paper, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 8
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