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This is the consummate guide to the political and personal lives of every U. S. president through Bill Clinton. Arranged chronologically, The Complete Book of U.S. Presidents elaborates not only on the major accomplishments and events of their terms, but also on less well-known details such as personalities, careers before the presidency, Supreme Court appointments, hobbies, ethnic backgrounds, and even extramarital affairs. Well-organized and packed with details, the book also includes a bibliography on each executive, including books written by and about them, along with useful and entertaining appendixes on the political composition of every Congress, presidential curiosities (such as the uncanny similarities between the lives and deaths of Abraham Lincoln and John F. Kennedy), and a ranking of presidents. Whether you want to know the opponent of James Monroe in the election of 1816 or read some of Harry S. Truman's more memorable quotes, this is a most complete and thorough reference to each commander in chief.
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So completely updated, this edition will include brand new information about the life and election of the 1996 president—whoever that might be!—Take a factual look at each of our chief executives—their lives, loves, administrations, friends and foes, successes and failures. This totally comprehensive single-volume sourcebook is arranged in chronological order for easy reference and features a photographed portrait of each president. 43 photographs, 769 pages.
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The Hobo Philosopher.......2007-09-19
I have several books giving brief biographies of the presidents of the United states. I imagine that there are quite a few people like me who are interested in reading about U.S. Presidents.
This book is well worth the price. He gives a lot of accurate information in a few pages. All the info. is categorized and it is the same categories for each president - so comparisons can be made easily. The author, does of course have his favorites and some are looked at more favorably than some others. I would say that Clinton is rather heavily negative while Nixon is taken rather in stride but the facts are still the facts and they are there for each man no matter what the slant.
This is a very good volume for reference purposes.
Quite Simply, the Best Presidential Reference Book..........2007-07-29
Recently there have been a spate of books on presidential history and trivia. However, in my opinion this book is simply the best of the lot. First published during the Reagan Presidency and frequently updated since, "The Complete Book of U.S. Presidents" fits the title. Each President since Washington gets his own chapter. Each chapter features 25 or more sections providing extensive - and often surprising - details about each President. The sections range from standard fare such as "Physical Description", "Ancestry", "Father" and "Mother" to categories about each President's "Religion", "Recreation", and even "Extramarital Affairs" (if any). There are also sections on the President's opponents in each of their presidential campaigns, detailed biographies of their Vice-Presidents and Cabinet members, Supreme Court appointments, and brief histories of the major events of their presidency. There are even sections describing what each president did after they left the White House, when and how they died, and quotes by others praising and criticizing each president. If you've ever wanted to know about James A. Garfield's extramarital affair with a "Mrs. Calhoun", or Harry Truman's experiences as an artillery officer in World War One, or a detailed description of the Republican who opposed Franklin Roosevelt's bid for a second term in 1936, then this book will answer your questions, and then some. Quite simply, if you're going to buy just one reference book about America's Chief Executives, then this book should be it. The latest edition goes through the first year of George W. Bush's second term. Highly Recommended!
Solid Biographical Reference.......2007-07-28
Author William DeGregorio has done a nice job portraying the lives, loves, decisions, and biographies of each U.S. President. Readers learn more than just some basic biographical information. We also learn about what motivated them, their personal views and philosophies, their friends, loves, foes, romances, failures, successes etc. In short, we learn what made them tick. The book is readable, concise, and contains headings for the various categories. One weakness is that there is much less information on some of the more ancient chief executives, but this remains a valuable and easily-read reference.
A LOT OF GOOD RESEARCH.......2007-05-08
I've read each edition of this book through out the years. It is the best insight into the individual presidents with both personal and professional information. The book never shows bias and puts in the good with the bad. A must read for any history buff.I'm glad the author always updates his work.
The Complete Book of U.S. Presidents.......2007-03-09
Great book. Very informative with details such as favorite foods, etc.
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From the Publisher This authoritative, highly accessible book of facts contains more in-depth information than can be found in any other single volume on the presidents of the United States. Divided chronologically into forty-three chapters one for each president this comprehensive resource has been updated to include such pivotal events as the controversial election of 2000; the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001; 2003's Operation Iraqi Freedom; and more. Each chapter includes more than thirty subheadings that offer a composite portrait of a president. The subdivisions collect in one place facts that go far beyond mere statistics to include details of each president's: childhood and education career before the presidency major appointments legislation passed romance and marriage recreational interests religion Also included are portraits, personality sketches, and quotations by and about each president. For the trivia buff who wants to know how the attending physician at FDR's birth nearly killed him, for the amateur historian who can't remember who served as Benjamin Harrison's vice president, for the student who needs to know the name of William McKinley's assassin, this invaluable reference book provides the answers.
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The ultimate in Presidential history.......2004-12-02
This book is a must for anyone that wants a concise and quick background on all the United States Presidents. The book lists cabinet members, judicial appointments, running mates, election opponents, major accomplishments, campaign platforms, and the primary process in which each President secured the nomination. Each President short biography covers how they grew up, women they loved, and what shaped their leadership style.
If you are a history and political enthusiast this book is a great reference tool. It is also a great way to follow how the United States has progressed over the past three centuries. One fascinating part of the book is some of the newspaper quotes during each Presidency. With each President there is support and opposition for the President's policies. For example, it is interesting to see criticism of George Washington. Even the great Washington could not please everyone. I highly recommend this book for anyone interested in Presidential history.
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This Election 2000 book of presidential inaugural addresses is a wonderful historical keepsake to remind friends and relatives of the election of the century. The book includes cultural events that occurred during each president's era, such as popular literature, music, movies, and the latest technological discoveries. This interesting book also includes photos of the presidents and their wives to represent our divided nation in this unprecedented election in modern times, both George W. Bush's and Vice President Al Gore's televised addresses to the nation remarking on the Florida recount are included in this historical keepsake.
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Interesting book on U.S. history - a collector's book.......2002-09-28
I liked the way the author included photos of the presidents' wives and described which popular music and books were enjoyed by people during each president's term in office. The speeches in the back by Al Gore and George W. Bush that talk about the Florida recount during the 2000 election kind of make this book a collector's item for political history buffs.
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- A First-Person Account of the Assassination of Lincoln.
- The Real Life Civil War
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- Superb additional material for Civil War Introduction
- Like a camera into civil war hospitals and camps.
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During the Civil War, from 1862-1865, Walt Whitman spent much of his time with wounded soldiers, both in the field and in the hospitals. The 40 notebooks he filled became the basis for the extraordinary diary of a medic in the Civil War.
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A First-Person Account of the Assassination of Lincoln........2005-10-26
From 1862-65, Walt Whitman visited hospitals, camps and fields of hospital tents, over six hundred visits or tours and ministered to 80,000 to 100,000 wounded and sick. He wrote letters for them. To his dismay, he found far more Union Southerners, especially from Tennessee, than he expected. After the Battle at Columbia, Tennessee, no Rebels were left alive. "They let none crawl away, no matter what his condition."
Hero stories are almost always myths. MEMORANDA DURING THE WAR is made up of articles published in the New York 'Weekly Graphic' and published in 1876 to go along with his special "Centennial Editon" of 'Leaves of Grass.'
"I shall not easily forget the first time I saw Abraham Lincoln. It was a rather pleasant spring afternoon on 19th of February, 1861, in New York City." Whitman was from Brooklyn, New York. "The figure, the look, the gait, are distinctly impressed upon me yet; the unusual and uncouth height, the dress of complete black, the stovepipe hat..., the dark-brown complexion, the seamed and wrinkled yet canny-looking face, the black, bushy head of hair, the disporportionately long neck...." He describes Lincoln as having eyes with a deep latent sadness in the expression. Mrs. Lincoln, too, when she ventured out always wore black.
At the first Inauguration, Lincoln's carriage had been surrounded by a dense mass of armed cavalrymen eight deep, with drawn sabres; and there were sharp-shooters stationed at every corner on the route. Four years later, he was in his plain two-horse barouche with his ten year old son, with no soldiers, only a lot of civilians on horseback, with huge yellow scarfs over their shoulders.
April 14, 1865, a day to be remembered, as President and Mrs. Lincoln attended a performance at Ford's Theatre; at intermission, a shot was heard. Booth, dressed in plain black broadcloth, bare-headed, with a full head of glossy, raven hair, and his eyes like some mad animal's flashing with light and resolution, yet with a strange calmness, jumps to the stage holding a large knife. After he sprains his ankle, he turns around and looks at the audience his face of statuesque beautuy, lit by those basilisk eyes, flashing with desperation...launches out in a firm and steady voice the words, "Sic semper tyrannis."
At the Cemetery in Andersonville, with its thirteen thousand graves, on the slope of a beautiful hill in June, 1875, he wrote: "And now, to thought of these -- on these graves of the dead of the War, as on an altar -- to memory of these, of North or South, I close and dedicate my book."
Whitman was an old man with a bushy white beard and white hair in the photograph by Matthew Brady in 1863. The first part by Peter Goviello appears to be a thesis on this particular book. He is an English professor at Bowdoin College, and previously published INTIMACY IN AMERICA: DREAMS OF AFFILIATION IN ANTEBELLUM LITERATURE. I didn't know there was such a thing, but then I took English Lit. and learned American Lit. by typing the exams for my college teacher/husband who taught both.
The Real Life Civil War.......2005-04-24
Walt Whitman, upon hearing the news of the wounding of his brother George at the battle of Fredericksburg , took off from New York City to find him on the battlefields of Virginia. After discovering him at a hospital, and spending time with his company, Whitman decided to live in Washington DC. His sojourn there, which last many years, is brilliantly recounted in the simple book "Memoranda During the War".
While working at the Patent Office during the war, Whitman volunteered much time caring and tending the wounded at the many Civil War hospitals that sprang up to take care of the men. Whitman would bring the men simple treats, such as fruit, or paper, or things to read, and spend hours tending to these brave men. This book is a recollection, however brief, of those times he spent caring for the men, including some important events of the time.
While people learn about the history of the Civil War by memorizing dates and places, they often miss the impact of the Civil War. Whitman's book brings the impact of this war into real contexts. Even he, in his writing, says that the true reality of this war may be unknowable to those who would never see it. Whitman attempts to correct this by telling stories of the wounded soldiers he tends; stories of battles; and a particularly gruesome story of a raid gone bad and its horrific consequences.
Whitman's prose is succinct and touching. The few soldier's lives he manages to capture on paper, some in just a few sentences, are compelling. Anyone wanting to understand this war certainly should spend an hour with Whitman as he describes his small part in this grand conflict, for with his words, comes a grander understanding of this war.
Treasure.......2005-02-28
How great that this amazing book was liberated from the dusty
shelves of the Library of Congress rare books collection.
In a weird way, it's sort of like Walt Whitman's "On The Road,"
except HIS On the Road was the Civil War. It's a touching, sad,
glorious & never boring book. Perhaps the most incredible thing about the prose is how "modern" it reads; and isn't it sad, about humanity in general, how Walt's accounts from 1862-1865 are still TOTALLY relevant today, in 2005; and will probably remain TOTALLY
relevant for as long as human beings occupy this blood-stained planet.
Superb additional material for Civil War Introduction.......1999-01-30
I read this book while also reading "Don't Know Much About the Civil War" and Lincoln's letters and speeches. What a wonderful view into the century that gave rise to this great one. If you are planning to cover the civil war, or even the nineteenth century in America, this would be a central piece to help modern readers understand that time. Whitman's prose style is very modern.
Like a camera into civil war hospitals and camps........1998-11-06
This collection of notes by Walt Whitman written during a period of time when Whitman was visiting war hospitals and camps is superb.
Whitman gives one a glimpse of the war that is photographic and poetic. Its attention to detail, and sympathetic approach must raise a lump in the throat of even the most hardend reader.
He shows you the places, the times and the players. He lets them speak their stories through his lines. Through sadness he exalts them.
This book should be a required reading for all highschool or college American History classes.
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This is a two volume set issued as a 150th anniversary commemorative edition. Includes both Whitman's "Leaves of Grass" and "Memoranda During the WAR."
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outdated.......2005-07-18
This book is outdated. there is no more than three paragraphs on laser/lidar and the information is not helpfull. The book does have many good points ,but it is outdated. The author should write a second edition on laser and lidar. I would buy it, but this book is not helpful with todays technology.
A Good Introductory Title, But Shouldn't Be Your Only Source.......2004-04-10
Beat the Cops is a good book to introduce yourself to the art of beating traffic citations, but the publisher gives themselves far too much credit by billing this title as a one-stop information shop. This book doesn't even cover courtroom procedures such as objecting to improper testimony and the information concerning the circumstances under which radar can be inaccurate is wholly incomplete.
As someone who has received in excess of ten traffic citations in the last five years, I had to learn how to beat the cops at their own game if I wanted to be able to legally operate a motor vehicle. Most of my citations were for speeding and I have beaten 6 of the 8 that I received. The two that I lost were the first two that I received.
I have taken cases to appeals court and won. This book doesn't cover appeals and other important topics. It also provides precious little information on the preparation of pleadings - a critical skill any veteran traffic citation contester must know inside and out.
Its a good introductory title, but it should not be your only source of information.
This book is OK but there ARE better out there..........2003-12-01
I bought this book along with An Educated Guide to Speeding Tickets by Richard Wallace a former cop and I gotta tell you, this book by Alex Carroll is ok at best. It covers some good points but it still leaves you hanging in some areas. I found the Educated Guide much better and full of helpful information. There was even a chapter on how to speed without getting caught. One tip was speed at shift change, when there are no cops on the road! I loved that one. All of these books help people fight back at the greedy states out there and that is great. I just found the book by Mr. Wallace much better. But glad these books are out here for the novices like me who know nothing about the equipment the police use and how the courts work.
Beat the Cops: The Guide to Fighting Your Traffic Ticket and.......2003-08-10
This book makes an excellent attempt to help you legally get out of speeding tickets. The book by Alex Carol not only includes ways to avoid getting tickets but also how to legally "cheat" wehn and if you're caught. In addition the book has many interesting points such as the 85% percentile rule and points out a study by Tignor and Warren that finds most speed limits are intentionally set 10mph below the "average flow of traffic", you can guess why. Very interesting and informative. An appealing book even if you don't speed.
WOW This actually works trust me.......2003-04-01
I don't care what anybody else says. I'm only 18 for those of you who care. This book does wonders. I'm in the process of my ticket and court case. My mom has got out of about 5 speeding tickets and this is her book that I am reading. It has also helped about 7 of my friends get out of their tickets. there is well over 100 ways to get out of speeding tickets. It's worth your 10-15 dollars to pay for this book. Heck they should make this a noval. There is also help for drinking and driving, red lights, parking tickets, repair tickets, and moving violations. I also have a friends dad that is a judge and he says that you can plea "State of Judustification"(I think that is how you pronounce it), which means that you plea gulty and pay the fine, but it will not go on you record unless you get another ticket or violation within 6-12 months. He also thinks that when you schedule you court date you can see what the officers work schedule, and do a little back round check of you offense you committed. Thank you for you time and good luck with your tickets and violations.
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