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Nixon) Mankiewicz, Frank Perfectly Clear; Nixon from Whittier to Watergate Quadrangle Books 1973 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Good. JACKET COND: Used; Acceptable. Slight tears to jacket. Book #or1170948. ISBN #0812904052 / 9780812904055. (keywords: NIXON RICHARD M MILHOUS 1913 PRESIDENT BIOGRAPHY POLITICS GOVERNMENT) (filed under: Presidents ) *
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ADAM(Subject); McCullough, David willis John Adams Simon & Schuster 2001 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1185186. ISBN #141657588X / 9781416575887. (filed under: Presidents ) *
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ADAM(Subject); McCullough, David willis John Adams Simon & Schuster 2001 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1185186. ISBN #141657588X / 9781416575887. (filed under: Presidents ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary In this powerful, epic biography, David McCullough unfolds the adventurous life journey of John Adams, the brilliant, fiercely independent, often irascible, always honest Yankee patriot who spared nothing in his zeal for the American Revolution; who rose to become the second president of the United States and saved the country from blundering into an unnecessary war; who was learned beyond all but a few and regarded by some as "out of his senses"; and whose marriage to the wise and valiant Abigail Adams is one of the most moving love stories in American history. This is history on a grand scale -- a book about politics and war and social issues, but also about human nature, love, religious faith, virtue, ambition, friendship, and betrayal, and the far-reaching consequences of noble ideas. Above all, John Adams is an enthralling, often surprising story of one of the most important and fascinating Americans who ever lived.
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ADAMS(Subject); Bowen, Catherine Drinker John Adams And The Revolution hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Good. Tears and damage to jacket. Book #or1118930. (filed under: Presidents ) *
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ADAMS(Subject); Diggins, John Patrick John Adams Times Books 2003 hardcover. . Book Club Edition. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Good. Some Chipping. Book #or1185147. ISBN #0805069372 / 9780805069372. (filed under: Presidents ) *
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ADAMS(Subject); Diggins, John Patrick John Adams Times Books 2003 hardcover. . Book Club Edition. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Good. Some Chipping. Book #or1185147. ISBN #0805069372 / 9780805069372. (filed under: Presidents ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary A revealing look at the true beginning of American politics Until recently rescued by David McCullough, John Adams has always been overshadowed by Washington and Jefferson. Volatile, impulsive, irritable, and self-pitying, Adams seemed temperamentally unsuited for the presidency. Yet in many ways he was the perfect successor to Washington in terms of ability, experience, and popularity. Possessed of a far-ranging intelligence, Adams took office amid the birth of the government and multiple crises. Besides maintaining neutrality and regaining peace, his administration created the Department of the Navy, put the army on a surer footing, and left a solvent treasury. One of his shrewdest acts was surely the appointment of moderate Federalist John Marshall as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. Though he was a Federalist, he sought to work outside the still-forming party system. In the end, this would be Adams s greatest failing and most useful lesson to later leaders.
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ADAMS(Subject); McCullough, David John Adams 2002 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1091997. ISBN #0743223136 / 9780743223133. (filed under: Presidents ) *
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ADAMS(Subject); McCullough, David John Adams 2002 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1091997. ISBN #0743223136 / 9780743223133. (filed under: Presidents ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary In this powerful, epic biography, David McCullough unfolds the adventurous life journey of John Adams, the brilliant, fiercely independent, often irascible, always honest Yankee patriot who spared nothing in his zeal for the American Revolution; who rose to become the second president of the United States and saved the country from blundering into an unnecessary war; who was learned beyond all but a few and regarded by some as "out of his senses"; and whose marriage to the wise and valiant Abigail Adams is one of the moving love stories in American history. This is history on a grand scale -- a book about politics and war and social issues, but also about human nature, love, religious faith, virtue, ambition, friendship, and betrayal, and the far-reaching consequences of noble ideas. Above all, John Adams is an enthralling, often surprising story of one of the most important and fascinating Americans who ever lived.
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ADAMS(Subject); Nagel, Paul C. John Quincy Adams: A Public Life, A Private Life Alfred A. Knopf 1997 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1170878. ISBN #0679404449 / 9780679404446. (filed under: Presidents ) *
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ADAMS(Subject); Nagel, Paul C. John Quincy Adams: A Public Life, A Private Life Alfred A. Knopf 1997 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1170878. ISBN #0679404449 / 9780679404446. (filed under: Presidents ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary February 21, 1848, the House of Representatives, Washington, D.C.: Congressman John Quincy Adams, rising to speak, suddenly collapses at his desk; two days later, he dies in the Speaker's chamber. The public mourning that followed, writes Paul C. Nagel, "exceeded anything previously seen in America." Forgotten was his failed presidency and his often cold demeanor. It was the memory of an extraordinary human being--one who in his last years had fought heroically for the right of petition and against a war to expand slavery--that drew a grateful people to salute his coffin in the Capitol and to stand by the railroad tracks as his bier was transported from Washington to Boston. Nagel probes deeply into the psyche of this cantankerous, misanthropic, erudite, hardworking son of a former president whose remarkable career spanned many offices: minister to Holland, Russia, and England, U.S. senator, secretary of state, president of the United States 1825-1829 , and, finally, U.S. representative the only ex-president to serve in the House . On the basis of a thorough study of Adams' seventy-year diary, among a host of other documents, the author gives us a richer account than we have yet had of JQA's life--his passionate marriage to Louisa Johnson, his personal tragedies two sons lost to alcoholism , his brilliant diplomacy, his recurring depression, his exasperating behavior--and shows us why, in the end, only Abraham Lincoln's death evoked a greater outpouring of national sorrow in nineteenth-century America. We come to see how much Adams disliked politics and hoped for more from life than high office; how he sought distinction in literary and scientific endeavors, and drew his greatest pleasure from being a poet, critic, translator, essayist, botanist, and professor of oratory at Harvard; how tension between the public and private Adams vexed his life; and how his frustrations kept him masked and aloof and unpopular . Nagel's great achievement, in this first biography of America's sixth president in a quarter century, is finally to portray Adams in all his talent and complexity.
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ADAMS(Subject); Smith, Page John Adams, Two Vols. Dooubleday 1962 hardcover. Good slipcase. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1149925. (filed under: Presidents ) *
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ADAMS(Subject); Wheelan, Joseph Mr. Adams's Last Crusade: John Quincy Adams's Extraordinary Post-Presidential Life in Congress PublicAffairs 2008 hardcover. . Book Club Edition. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Good. Some Chipping. Book #or1170889. ISBN #0786720123 / 9780786720125. (filed under: Presidents ) *
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ADAMS(Subject); Wheelan, Joseph Mr. Adams's Last Crusade: John Quincy Adams's Extraordinary Post-Presidential Life in Congress PublicAffairs 2008 hardcover. . Book Club Edition. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Good. Some Chipping. Book #or1170889. ISBN #0786720123 / 9780786720125. (filed under: Presidents ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary Following his single term as President of the United States 1825 1829 , John Quincy Adams, embittered by his loss to Andrew Jackson, boycotted his successor's inauguration, just as his father John Adams had done the only two presidents ever to do so . Rather than retire, the sixty-two-year-old former president, U.S. senator, secretary of state, and Harvard professor was elected by his Massachusetts friends and neighbors to the House of Representatives to throw off the "incubus of Jacksonianism." It was the opening chapter in what was arguably the most remarkable post-presidency in American history. In this engaging biography, historian Joseph Wheelan describes Adams's battles against the House Gag Rule that banished abolition petitions; the removal of Eastern Indian tribes; and the annexation of slave-holding Texas, while recounting his efforts to establish the Smithsonian Institution. As a "man of the whole country," Adams was not bound by political party, yet was reelected to the House eight times before collapsing at his "post of duty" on February 21, 1848, and then dying in the House Speaker's office. His funeral evoked the greatest public outpouring since Benjamin Franklin's death. Mr. Adams's Last Crusade will enlighten and delight anyone interested in American history. di
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ADAMS, JOHN QUINCY; (Subject); Morse Jr., John T. John Quincy Adams Chelsea House 1980 paperback. . Clean crisp copy with no markings.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1154432. ISBN #0877541825 / 9780877541820. (filed under: Presidents ) *
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ADAMS, JOHN; (Subject); Grant, James John Adams: Party Of One Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2005 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1151766. ISBN #0374530238 / 9780374530235. (filed under: Presidents ) *
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ARTHUR(Subject); Karabell, Zachary Chester Alan Arthur: The American Presidents Series: The 21st President, 1881-1885 Times Books 2004 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Remainder Mark. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1176433. ISBN #0805069518 / 9780805069518. (filed under: Presidents ) *
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ARTHUR(Subject); Reeves, Thomas C. Gentleman Boss: The Life of Chester Alan Arthur American Political Biography Press 1998 hardcover. . Clean crisp copy with no markings.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1176278. ISBN #0945707037 / 9780945707035. (filed under: Presidents ) *
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Baldrige, Letitia (editor) In the Kennedy Style : Magical Evenings in the Kennedy White House Doubleday 1998 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1151061. ISBN #0385489641 / 9780385489645. (keywords: KENNEDY JOHN F FITZGERALD 1917 1963 WASHINGTON D C SOCIAL LIFE CUSTOMS WHITE HOUSE BIOGRAPHY AUTOBIOGRAPHY PRESIDENTS HEADS STATE SCIENCE TRADITIONS) (filed under: Presidents ) *
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Bernstein, Carl and Bob Woodward All the President's Men Simon & Schuster 1987 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1181419. ISBN #0671894412 / 9780671894412. (keywords: Presidents) (filed under: Presidents ) *
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Bernstein, Carl; Woodward, Bob All the Presidents Men Touchstone Books 1994 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1160876. ISBN #0671894412 / 9780671894412. (keywords: WATERGATE AFFAIR 1972 1974 NIXON) (filed under: Presidents ) *
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BUSH(Subject); Trillin, Calvin Obliviously On He Sails: The Bush Administration in Rhyme 2004 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1124736. ISBN #1400062888 / 9781400062881. (filed under: Presidents ) *
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BUSH(Subject); Trillin, Calvin Obliviously On He Sails: The Bush Administration in Rhyme 2004 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1124736. ISBN #1400062888 / 9781400062881. (filed under: Presidents ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary Does the Bush Administration sound any better in rhyme? In this biting array of verse, it at least sounds funnier. Calvin Trillin employs everything from a Gilbert and Sullivan style, for describing George Bush s rescue in the South Carolina primary by the Christian Right I am, when all is said and done, a Robertson Republican , to a bilingual approach, when commenting on the President s casual acknowledgment, after months of trying to persuade the nation otherwise, that there was never any evidence of Iraqi involvement in 9 11: The Web may say, or maybe Lexis-Nexis If chutzpa is a word they use in Texas. Trillin deals not only with George W. Bush but with the people around him Supreme Commander Karl Rove and Condoleezza Mushroom Cloud Rice and Nanny Dick Cheney One mystery I ve tried to disentangle: Why Cheney s head is always at an angle . . . The armchair warriors Trillin refers to as the Sissy Hawk Brigade are celebrated in such poems as Richard Perle: Whose Fault Is He? and A Sissy Hawk Cheer All-out war is still our druthers Fiercely fought, and fought by others. . Trillin may never be poet laureate certainly not while George W. Bush is in office but his wit and his political insight produce what
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BUSH, GEORGE H.W.; (Subject); Bush, George W. 41: A Portrait Of My Father Crown Publishers 2014 hardcover. First Edition. . Clean crisp copy with no markings.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1141942. ISBN #0553447785 / 9780553447781. (filed under: Presidents ) *
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BUSH, GEORGE W.(Subject); Smith, Jean Edward Bush Simon & Schuster 2016 hardcover. First Edition. . Clean crisp copy with no markings.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1185040. ISBN #1476741190 / 9781476741192. (filed under: Presidents ) *
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BUSH, GEORGE W.(Subject); Woodward, Bob The War Within Simon & Schuster Paperbacks 2008 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Book #or1153695. ISBN #1416558985 / 9781416558989. (filed under: Presidents ) *
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CARTER(Subject); Carter, Jimmy A Call to Action: Women, Religion, Violence, and Power Simon & Schuster 2014 hardcover. . Clean crisp copy with no markings.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1163722. ISBN #1476773955 / 9781476773957. (filed under: Presidents ) *
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CARTER(Subject); Carter, Jimmy A Full Life: Reflections at Ninety Simon & Schuster 2015 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. JACKET COND: Used; Good. Book #or1165387. ISBN #1501115634 / 9781501115639. (filed under: Presidents ) *
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CARTER(Subject); Carter, Jimmy A Full Life: Reflections at Ninety Simon & Schuster 2015 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. JACKET COND: Used; Good. Book #or1165387. ISBN #1501115634 / 9781501115639. (filed under: Presidents ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary A warm and detailed memoir. Los Angeles Times Jimmy Carter, thirty-ninth President, Nobel Peace Prize winner, international humanitarian, fisherman, reflects on his full and happy life with pride, humor, and a few second thoughts. At ninety, Jimmy Carter reflects on his public and private life with a frankness that is disarming. He adds detail and emotion about his youth in rural Georgia that he described in his magnificent An Hour Before Daylight . He writes about racism and the isolation of the Carters. He describes the brutality of the hazing regimen at Annapolis, and how he nearly lost his life twice serving on submarines and his amazing interview with Admiral Rickover. He describes the profound influence his mother had on him, and how he admired his father even though he didn t emulate him. He admits that he decided to quit the Navy and later enter politics without consulting his wife, Rosalynn, and how appalled he is in retrospect. In A Full Life , Carter tells what he is proud of and what he might do differently. He discusses his regret at losing his re-election, but how he and Rosalynn pushed on and made a new life and second and third rewarding careers. He is frank about the presidents who have succeeded him, world leaders, and his passions for the causes he cares most about, particularly the condition of women and the deprived people of the developing world. This is a wise and moving look back from this remarkable man. Jimmy Carter has lived one of our great American lives from rural obscurity to world fame, universal respect, and contentment. A Full Life is an extraordinary read.
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