Presidential Ambition: How the American Presidents Gained Power, Kept Power, and Got Things Done by Richard Shenkman

Presidential Ambition: How the American Presidents Gained Power, Kept Power, and Got Things Done

Richard Shenkman

400 pages • first pub 1999 (view editions)

nonfiction biography history informative reflective slow-paced
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First John Adams played politics with national security. Then James Polk lied the country into war. James Buchana tolerated the bribing of congressmen. Ulysses S. Grant ignored shocking corruption. Rutehrford B. Hayes became the first of several ...

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