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As new condition oversized glossy color illustrated boards contained in a fine condition color illustrated dust jacket. Includes Preface; A Personal Journey by Hugh Sidey; Introduction by Richard E. Neustadt; Chronology of the Presidents; Selected Constitutional Passages; Acknowledgments; Selected Bibliography; Index; and Picture Sources. Profusely illustrated with photographic front and rear endpapers, and 800 (eight-hundred) black-and-white photographs, color photographs, portraits, etc. "I absolutely loved reading this original and fascinating approach to the American presidency. The organizational structure is brilliant, the narrative is clear and thought-provoking, and the pictures are dazzling." - Doris Kearns Goodwin, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and author "This book is marvelous. It combines words and pictures with great effect to put before us, visually as well as analytically, the whole sweep of the American presidency since 1789. Short, incisive biographies accumulate into a striking commentary on the presidency as a whole. The book is both original and beautiful - as much so as the Kunhardts' previous great work on Abraham Lincoln." - Richard E. Neustadt, author of Presidential Power "The Kunhardts have produced a lustrous, imaginative, and compelling reexamination of the presidents that will add fresh zest to the everlasting dialogue Americans carry on with their chief executives." - Henry F. Graff, Professor Emeritus of history, Columbia University. "The first fully illustrated book in thirty years to examine all the U.S. presidents, the Kunhardts' The American President is an overarching look at our nation's highest office. Organized with the help of historian Stephen Skowronek of Yale University, and with an introduction by the venerable presidential scholar Richard E. Neustadt of Harvard University, the book challenges andy fixed notion of what the presidency is or has been. With an original approach, personal interviews with our living presidents, exhaustive research into presidential writings, both published and unpublished, and an impressive advisory team of presidential experts, it brings to fresh and vivid life a complex and ever-changing institution and the extraordinary men who have embodied it. Each of the chapters, which are arranged thematically rather than chronologically, juxtaposes the careers of four presidents who may have lived in different centuries or held different political beliefs, but who nevertheless share a defining aspect of what our country looks for in its leaders. From the independent thinkers (John Adams, Zachary Taylor, Jimmy Carter) to the professional politicians (Abraham Lincoln, Lyndon Johnson), from those who stretched the executive powers to - or beyond - their limits (Andrew Jackson, Theodore Roosevelt, Richard Nixon) to those with an abiding belief in the balance of power (James Madison, Bill Clinton), these groupings render fascinating comparisons that shed new light on familiar figures as well as on the presidency itself. At a time when we Americans have become highly uncertain about our political institutions, The American President looks back to examine the many things the presidency has been over the course of our history. The story of the presidency is, at least in part, a story of human personality under pressure. Through the individual stories of the forty-one men who have held the office, a larger vision emerges of a constantly evolving institution whose future remains deeply rooted in its past, and whose character perseveres even as it expands its boundaries and as our nation changes. With some 300 color and 500 black-and-white illustrations, including rare photographs of the presidents and the White House, this landmark book will provide a new understanding of the legacy and impact of our most important American office." - from the inner front and rear jacket flaps. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 001574
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