Fascinating Facs about Each and Every President, including an American History Timeline and Portraits from the Smithsonian Institution! This perennial childhood favorite combines presidential portraits from the National Portrait Gallery with fun, engrossing text written by two historians. A continuous timeline flowing through the book notes milestones in literature, invention, and politics within each president's tenure.
Updated for 2020, readers can easily relive the course of American history through a detailed timeline, more than 50 vivid photographs and illustrations, information about each president's term in office, and the major political issues of ...
With updated information on President Barack Obama, this is the perfect introduction to the lives and characters of the US presidents.
... Harry 142, 144–145, 149 Davis, Dr. Loyal 220 Davis, Jefferson 61–62, 77, 86 Davis, Patti (Reagan) 220 Dawes Plan 149 Dawes, Charles G. 149 Dawes, Mary Beman Gates 149 Dawes, Rufus 149 Declaration of Independence 8, 14–15, 17–21, 25, ...
For young readers and students who loved The New Big Book of Presidents, Lincoln and Kennedy: A Pair to Compare, and Kid Presidents: True Tales of Childhood from America's Presidents.
( 4 ) Charles E. Whittaker ( 1901–1973 ) , of Missouri , served as associate justice 1957–1962 . He generally voted with the conservative bloc . He resigned for health reasons . ( 5 ) Potter Stewart ( 1915–1985 ) , of Ohio , served as ...
- Which president has served in office the longest?Alongside photographs and lists of key events, this book covers everything you need to know about each president's major accomplishments in and out of the Oval Office.
This book features short, biographical essays about the lives of each of the 44 presidents, jam-packed with unusual details and expounding on the significant roles each commander-in-chief played in the shaping of the United States and its ...
Discusses the lives, achievements, and times of each president from Washington to Clinton
85 “I feel as if”: Williams, Reclaiming Authorship, 52. 86 “Candidates for”: Robert Remini, The Election of Andrew Jackson (Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1963), 62. 87 “born and bred”: Edinburgh Review, January 1820. The author was Sydney ...
David Priess, a former intelligence officer and daily briefer, has interviewed every living president and vice president as well as more than one hundred others intimately involved with the production and delivery of the president's book of ...