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"I'd Rather Be Right Than Be President"

Author: Stephen J. Goedert
Publisher: iUniverse
Total Pages: 194
Release: 2000-04-11
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 059509015X

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A story set before, during, and immediately after the Jacksonian Period and the critical years leading up to the Civil War. Former Speaker of the House, Senator, Secretary of State, organizer of the Whig political party, Henry Clay, had lost the race to the White House three times already, and now was his chance to take the Presidency for himself. Zachary Taylor declines to run as the Chief Executive, giving Clay another shot. With the use of the telegraph and help from newspaper editor Horace Greeley, Daniel Webster, and others, the first presidential debate in 1848 between Clay and Martin Van Buren and Lewis Cass was set. One of the most popular senators of all time, the Kentuckian Henry Clay goes into the debate with fire and vengeance to make up for his previous losses. Whoever comes out the winner of this historical occasion would go on and follow James Polk to the Presidency, and attempt to delay the inevitable—American Civil War.


I'd Rather Be Right

I'd Rather Be Right
Author: George S. Kaufman
Publisher:
Total Pages: 144
Release: 2013-10
Genre:
ISBN: 9781494020866

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This is a new release of the original 1937 edition.


Safire's Political Dictionary

Safire's Political Dictionary
Author: William Safire
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 887
Release: 2008
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0195340612

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Featuring more than one thousand new, rewritten, and updated entries, this reference on American politics explains current terms in politics, economics, and diplomacy.


LIFE

LIFE
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 180
Release: 1955-10-24
Genre:
ISBN:

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LIFE Magazine is the treasured photographic magazine that chronicled the 20th Century. It now lives on at LIFE.com, the largest, most amazing collection of professional photography on the internet. Users can browse, search and view photos of today’s people and events. They have free access to share, print and post images for personal use.


Almost President

Almost President
Author: Scott Farris
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 393
Release: 2013-05-07
Genre: History
ISBN: 0762784210

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Veteran political journalist Scott Farris tells the stories of legendary presidential also-rans, from Henry Clay to Stephen Douglas, from William Jennings Bryan to Thomas Dewey, and from Adlai Stevenson to Al Gore. He also includes concise profiles of every major candidate nominated for president who never reached the White House but who helped promote the success of American democracy. Farris explains how Barry Goldwater achieved the party realignment that had eluded FDR, how George McGovern paved the way for Barack Obama, and how Ross Perot changed the way all presidential candidates campaign. There is Al Smith, the first Catholic nominee for president; and Adlai Stevenson, the candidate of the "eggheads" who remains the beau ideal of a liberal statesman. And Farris explores the potential legacies of recent runners-up John Kerry and John McCain. The book also includes compact and evocative portraits of such men as John C. Fremont, the first Republican Party presidential candidate; and General Winfield Scott, whose loss helped guarantee the Union victory in the Civil War. This new edition of Almost President brings the work up-to-date with a section that explores the results and ramifications of the 2012 presidential election.


Poetry Night at the Ballpark and Other Scenes from an Alternative America

Poetry Night at the Ballpark and Other Scenes from an Alternative America
Author: Bill Kauffman
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Total Pages: 443
Release: 2015-06-15
Genre: History
ISBN: 1625648421

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Bill Kauffman has carved out an idiosyncratic identity quite unlike any other American writer. Praised by the likes of Gore Vidal, Benjamin Schwarz, and George McGovern, he has, with a distinctive and slashingly witty, learnedly allusive style, illumed forgotten corners of American history, articulated a defiant and passionate localism, and written with love and dark humor of his repatriation. Poetry Night at the Ballpark gathers the best of Bill Kauffman's essays and journalism in defense and explication of his alternative America--or Americas. Its discrete pieces are bound by a thematic unity and propulsive energy and are full of unexpected (yet startlingly apposite) connections and revelatory linkages. Whether he's writing about conservative Beats, backyard astronomers, pacifist West Pointers, or Middle America in the movies, Bill Kauffman will challenge, maybe even change, the way you look at American politics and the American provinces.


The Atlantic Monthly

The Atlantic Monthly
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 1078
Release: 1905
Genre: American literature
ISBN:

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The Sabbath Recorder

The Sabbath Recorder
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 912
Release: 1917
Genre: Baptists
ISBN:

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Tippecanoe and Tyler Too

Tippecanoe and Tyler Too
Author: Jan R. Van Meter
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 345
Release: 2008-11
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0226849686

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"So the next time we hear or see one of these verbal symbols used to sell a product, illustrate a point, make a joke, reshape a current cause, or resuscitate a forgotten ideal, we will finally be equipped to understand its broader role as a key source of the values we continue to share and fight about. Taken together in Van Meter's able hands, these famous slogans and catchphrases give voice to our common history even as we argue about where it should lead us."--BOOK JACKET.


Dear Bess

Dear Bess
Author: Harry S. Truman
Publisher: University of Missouri Press
Total Pages: 614
Release: 1998
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780826212030

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This correspondence, which encompasses Truman's courtship of his wife, his service in the senate, his presidency, and after, reveals not only the character of Truman's mind but also a shrewd observer's view of American politics.