Where They Stand - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Where They Stand write by Robert W. Merry. This book was released on 2012-06-26. Where They Stand available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The author of the acclaimed biography of President James Polk, A Country of Vast Designs, offers a fresh, playful, and challenging way of playing “Rating the Presidents,” by pitching historians’ views and subsequent experts’ polls against the judgment and votes of the presidents’ own contemporaries. Merry posits that presidents rise and fall based on performance, as judged by the electorate. Thus, he explores the presidency by comparing the judgments of historians with how the voters saw things. Was the president reelected? If so, did his party hold office in the next election? Where They Stand examines the chief executives Merry calls “Men of Destiny,’’ those who set the country toward new directions. There are six of them, including the three nearly always at the top of all academic polls—Lincoln, Washington, and FDR. He describes the “Split-Decision Presidents’’ (including Wilson and Nixon)—successful in their first terms and reelected; less successful in their second terms and succeeded by the opposition party. He describes the “Near Greats’’ (Jefferson, Jackson, Polk, TR, Truman), the “War Presidents’’ (Madison, McKinley, Lyndon Johnson), the flat-out failures (Buchanan, Pierce), and those whose standing has fluctuated (Grant, Cleveland, Eisenhower). This voyage through our history provides a probing and provocative analysis of how presidential politics works and how the country sets its course. Where They Stand invites readers to pitch their opinions against the voters of old, the historians, the pollsters—and against the author himself. In this year of raucous presidential politics, Where They Stand will provide a context for the unfolding campaign drama.
Where We Stand
Where We Stand - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Where We Stand write by bell hooks. This book was released on 2012-10-02. Where We Stand available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Drawing on both her roots in Kentucky and her adventures with Manhattan Coop boards, Where We Stand is a successful black woman's reflection--personal, straight forward, and rigorously honest--on how our dilemmas of class and race are intertwined, and how we can find ways to think beyond them.
The Stand
The Stand - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Stand write by Stephen King. This book was released on 2011. The Stand available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A monumentally devastating plague leaves only a few survivors who, while experiencing dreams of a battle between good and evil, move toward an actual confrontation as they migrate to Boulder, Colorado.
Where We Stand
Where We Stand - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Where We Stand write by Dan Carter. This book was released on 2004-01-01. Where We Stand available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "This book contains essays from twelve leading Southern historians, activists, civil rights attorneys, law professors, and theologians. They discuss militarism, religion, the environment, voting rights, the Patriot Act, the economy, prisons and crime, and other subjects significant to the South and the Nation in the ongoing debate about the future of the United States. The writers come from, or have been active in the affairs of, each of the former Confederate states."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Where They Stand
Where They Stand - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Where They Stand write by Robert W. Merry. This book was released on 2012. Where They Stand available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Merry examines how and why presidents succeed and fail by recounting the judgments of historians and comparing them to how the voters saw things.
