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Where the buck stops : the personal and private writings of Harry S. Truman / edited by Margaret Truman.

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  • ISBN: 9780446514941
  • ISBN: 0446514942
  • ISBN: 9780446391757
  • ISBN: 0446391751
  • Physical Description: x, 388 pages ; 24 cm
  • Publisher: New York, NY : Warner Books, c1989.

Content descriptions

Formatted Contents Note:
1 Ordinary Men and Three Great Presidents 1 -- 2 Five More Great Presidents 9 -- Part I Some Presidents We Could Have Done Without 17 -- 3 Do-nothing Presidents--Taylor, Fillmore, Pierce, and Buchanan 19 -- 4 All About Grant 28 -- 5 Harding and Coolidge 38 -- 6 Freedom--or Abuse?--of the Press 49 -- 7 Eisenhower and Generals as Presidents 54 -- 8 Why I Don't Like Ike 60 -- Part II What It Takes to Be a Good President 75 -- 9 Making Up Your Mind 77 -- 10 Sticking to It 86 -- 11 Listening and Persuading 97 -- 12 Accepting the Past and Having Enough Time 107 -- Part III How America Got Started 115 -- 13 Why People Came to America 117 -- 14 What Led to the American Revolution 127 -- 15 Washington--A General Without Experience 137 -- 16 Losing the Battles, Winning the Revolutionary War 147 -- 17 Washington--A Great and Unpopular President 157 -- 18 Electoral College 168 -- Part IV Our Great Presidents, and Some in Between 175 -- 19 Washington, Chief Executive 177 -- 20 Isolationism: Our First Foreign Policy 186 -- 21 Becoming a World Power, Dropping the Bomb 198 -- 22 Jefferson the Populist 208 -- 23 Jefferson--The Man, the President 220 -- 24 Constitution--Stretched or Broken? 233 -- 25 Madison and the War of 1812 246 -- 26 Minor Presidents: Monroe and John Quincy Adams 259 -- 27 My Favorite President: Andrew Jackson 272 -- 28 America's Treatment of the Indians 281 -- 29 Jackson, Champion of the Common People 289 -- 30 Van Buren, Tyler, and a Great President--Polk 306 -- 31 Lincoln, Surrounded by Tragedy 322 -- 32 Woodrow Wilson--Too Smart to Be President? 341 -- 33 FDR (and Me) 361.
Subject:
Presidents > United States > History.
United States > Politics and government.

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