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010 _a56315844
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040 _cJTL
050 _aE 176.1
_b.W35 2004
100 _aWallace, Chris
245 _a Character :
_bprofiles in presidential courage /
_cChris Wallace.
260 _aNew York :
_bRugged Land,
_cc2004.
300 _a426 p. :
_bportraits ;
_c24 cm.
505 _a 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.
650 _aPresidents
_vUnited States.
_x Biography.
650 _a Courage
_xUnited States.
650 _aUnited States
_xPolitics and government.
942 _2lcc
_cDWBSLC
_hE 176.1
_i.W35 2004