Character :
Wallace, Chris
Character : profiles in presidential courage / Chris Wallace. - New York : Rugged Land, c2004. - 426 p. : portraits ; 24 cm.
Internal Strife --
Saddle Up: George Washington and the Whiskey Rebellion --
To Thine Own Self be True: Abraham Lincoln and the Emancipation Proclamation --
Constitution be Damned: Grover Cleveland and the Pullman Strike --
Executive Action --
Breaking the Bank: Andrew Jackson and the Second National Bank --
Mr. Johnson Goes To Washington: Andrew Johnson and His Secretary of War --
Guns and Butter: Lyndon Johnson, the Vietnam War, and the Great Society --
The Map for Peace --
A General Skirts War: Ulysses Grant and Cuba --
Peace Warrior: Theodore Roosevelt and the Russo-Japanese Peace Plan --
Mission From God: Woodrow Wilson and the League of Nations --
The China Card: Richard Nixon and the People's Republic of China --
The Zero Option: Ronald Reagan and the Soviet Union --
Against the Enemy --
Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Smugglers: Thomas Jefferson and the Embargo Acts --
The Garden Hose: Franklin Roosevelt and the Lend-Lease Act --
Always Do Right: Harry Truman and the Berlin Airlift --
Defeat is an Orphan: John Kennedy and the Bay of Pigs --
The Mushroom Cloud: George W. Bush and the Iraq War.
9781590710388
56315844
Presidents-- Biography.--United States.
Courage--United States.
United States--Politics and government.
E 176.1 / .W35 2004
Character : profiles in presidential courage / Chris Wallace. - New York : Rugged Land, c2004. - 426 p. : portraits ; 24 cm.
Internal Strife --
Saddle Up: George Washington and the Whiskey Rebellion --
To Thine Own Self be True: Abraham Lincoln and the Emancipation Proclamation --
Constitution be Damned: Grover Cleveland and the Pullman Strike --
Executive Action --
Breaking the Bank: Andrew Jackson and the Second National Bank --
Mr. Johnson Goes To Washington: Andrew Johnson and His Secretary of War --
Guns and Butter: Lyndon Johnson, the Vietnam War, and the Great Society --
The Map for Peace --
A General Skirts War: Ulysses Grant and Cuba --
Peace Warrior: Theodore Roosevelt and the Russo-Japanese Peace Plan --
Mission From God: Woodrow Wilson and the League of Nations --
The China Card: Richard Nixon and the People's Republic of China --
The Zero Option: Ronald Reagan and the Soviet Union --
Against the Enemy --
Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Smugglers: Thomas Jefferson and the Embargo Acts --
The Garden Hose: Franklin Roosevelt and the Lend-Lease Act --
Always Do Right: Harry Truman and the Berlin Airlift --
Defeat is an Orphan: John Kennedy and the Bay of Pigs --
The Mushroom Cloud: George W. Bush and the Iraq War.
9781590710388
56315844
Presidents-- Biography.--United States.
Courage--United States.
United States--Politics and government.
E 176.1 / .W35 2004