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Police beat. by High Point Enterprise.;
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Subjects: Isenhour, Joushua Dean.; Holloway, Evette E.; Lester, April Danielle.; Horton, Jeremy Howard.; Padget, Daniel Jason.; Buchanan, Malcolm Gerrold.; Bennett, Kenneth Alvin.; Marte, Josue.; Frizzell, Ariana Keely.; Meek, Christina Rose.; Calhoun, Bryan John.;
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American government / by Faber, Doris,1924-2016.(CARDINAL)123582; Faber, Harold,author.(CARDINAL)123583;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-268) and index.Relates the life stories of thirty-six significant individuals who held important public offices and contributed to the development of the United States from the Declaration of Independence to the nuclear age, including presidents, judges, leaders of the national legislature, and female and minority leaders.Middle School.
Subjects: Biographies.; Literature.; Adams, John.; Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790.; Gallatin, Albert, 1761-1849.; Hamilton, Alexander.; Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826.; Madison, James, 1751-1836.; Marshall, John.; Monroe, James.; Washington, George, 1732-1799.; Adams, John Quincy, 1767-1848.; Calhoun, John.; Clay, Henry.; Houston, Sam, 1793-1863.; Jackson, Andrew.; Polk, James.; Webster, Daniel.; Bryan, William Jennings, 1860-1925.; Davis, Jefferson, 1808-1889.; Lafollette, Robert.; Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865.; Morrill, Justin.; Rankin, Jeannette, 1880-1973.; Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919.; Wilson, Woodrow, 1856-1924.; Eisenhower, Dwight D. (Dwight David), 1890-1969.; Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 1809-1894.; Marshall, George.; Marshall, Thurgood, 1908-1993.; Nixon, Richard.; Norris, George.; Roosevelt, Eleanor, 1884-1962.; Smith, Margaret Chase, 1897-1995.; Taft, Robert F.; Truman, Harry S., 1884-1972.; Warren, Earl.; Statesmen; Presidents; Statesmen; Presidents;
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The "also rans"; great men who missed making the presidential goal / by Seitz, Don C.(Don Carlos),1862-1935.(CARDINAL)122162;
Introduction: Our presidents.--Aaron Burr.--William H. Crawford.--John C. Calhoun.--Henry Clay.--Lewis Cass.--Daniel Webster.--Winfield Scott.--John C. Fremont.--Stephen A. Douglas.--William H. Seward.--George B. McClellan.--Horatio Seymour.--Horace Greeley.--Samuel J. Tilden.--Winfield Scott Hancock.--James G. Blaine.--Benjamin F. Butler.--William Jennings Bryan.
Subjects: Biographies.;
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The American political tradition and the men who made it / by Hofstadter, Richard,1916-1970.(CARDINAL)138176;
The founding fathers, an age of realism -- Thomas Jefferson, the aristocrat as democrat -- Andrew Jackson and the rise of liberal capitalism -- John C. Calhoun, the Marx of the master class -- Abraham Lincoln and the self-made myth -- Wendell Phillips, the patrician as agitator -- The spoilsmen, an age of cynicism -- William Jennings Bryan, the democrat as revivalist -- Theodore Roosevelt, the conservative as progressive -- Woodrow Wilson, the conservative as liberal -- Herbert Hoover and the crisis of American individualism -- Franklin D. Roosevelt, the partician as opportunist.
Subjects: Biographies.;
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The Secretaries of State : portraits and biographical sketches. by United States.Department of State.(CARDINAL)155700; Burke, Lee H.,1940-(CARDINAL)281977; Herman, Jan K.(CARDINAL)281976; Patterson, Richard Sharpe,1908-1976,comp.Secretaries of State.;
Robert R. Livingston --John Jay --Thomas Jefferson --Edmund Randolph --Timothy Pickering --John Marshall --James Madison --Robert Smith --James Monroe --John Quincy Adams -- Henry Clay --Martin Van Buren -- Edward Livingstone -- Louis Mclane -- John Forsyth --Daniel Webster --Abel Parker Upshur --John Caldwell Calhoun -- James Buchanan -- John Middleton Clayton --Daniel Webster --Edward Everett --William Learned Marcy --Lewis Cass --Jeremiah Sullivan Black --William Henry Seward --Elihu Benjamin Washburne --Hamilton Fish --William Maxwell Evarts --James Gillespie Blaine --Frederick Theodore Frelinghuysen --Thomas Francis Bayard --John Watson Foster --Walter Quintin Gresham --Richard Olney --John Sherman --William Rufus Day --John Hay --Elihu Root --Robert Bacon --Philander Chase Knox --William Hennings Bryan --Robert Lansing -- ainbridge Colby -- Charles Evans Hughes -- Frank Billings Kellogg -- Henry Lewis Stimson -- Cordell Hull -- Edward Reilly Stettinius, Jr. -- James Francis Byrnes -- George Catlett Marshall -- Dean Gooderham Acheson -- John Foster Dulles -- Christian Archibald Herter -- Dean Rusk -- William Pierce Rogers -- Henry Alfred Kissinger -- Cyrus Roberts Vance. Secretaries of State ad interim -- Chronological list of Presidents of the United States, Secretaries of State, and Secretaries of State ad interim.
Subjects: Cabinet officers; Cabinet officers; United States. Department of State;
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The legal 100 : a ranking of the individuals who have most influenced the law / by McWhirter, Darien A.(Darien Auburn)(CARDINAL)196278;
Includes bibliographical references and index.James Madison -- Alexander Hamilton -- John Marshall -- Cicero -- Daniel Webster -- Clarence Darrow -- William Mansfield -- Thomas Erskine -- Edward Marshall Hall -- Earl Warren -- Edward Coke -- Francis Bacon -- William Blackstone -- James Kent -- George Wythe -- John Locke -- Montesquieu -- Oliver Wendell Holmes -- Louis D. Brandeis -- John Marshall Harlan -- Aristotle -- Jeremy Bentham -- John Stuart Mill -- John Austin -- Karl Marx -- Earl Rogers -- Charles Evans Hughes -- Hugo Black -- William O. Douglas -- Felix Frankfurter -- Hammurabi -- Solon -- Justinian I -- Henry II -- Edward I -- Napoleon Bonaparte -- Benjamin Disraeli -- William Gladstone -- Theodore Roosevelt -- Woodrow Wilson -- Franklin D. Roosevelt -- Lyndon Baines Johnson -- Christopher Langdell -- Roscoe Pound -- Benjamin Cardozo -- Lemuel Shaw -- Mary Wollstonecraft -- William Godwin -- Mohandas Gandhi -- Susan B. Anthony -- Emmeline Pankhurst -- Martin Luther King, Jr. -- Charles Hamilton Houston -- Thurgood Marshall -- John W. Davis -- William Brennan -- Thomas More -- Edmund Burke -- Andrew Hamilton -- Rufus Choate -- William Pinkney -- Patrick Henry -- John Adams -- Thomas Jefferson -- Joseph Story -- William Johnson -- Hugo Grotius -- Henry Maine -- Edward Livingston -- David Dudley Field -- Samuel Jones Tilden -- Jospeh H. Choate -- Elihu Root -- Stephen Johnson Field -- Samuel Freeman Miller -- Joseph P. Bradley -- Ferdinand Lassalle -- Otto Von Bismarck -- Lenin -- Abraham Lincoln -- Henry Clay -- John C. Calhoun -- Thurman Arnold -- Edward Bennett Williams -- Samuel Romilly -- Henry Brougham -- Daniel O'Connell -- Alfred Denning -- H.L.A. Hart -- Patrick Hastings -- John Hemphill -- Sam Houston -- Learned Hand -- John Jay -- William Jennings Bryan -- Robert M. La Follette -- William M. Kunstler -- Sandra Day O'Connor -- Erle Stanley Gardner -- John Mortimer.
Subjects: Biographies.; Lawyers; Judges; Philosophers; Statesmen;
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Palmetto profiles : the South Carolina encyclopedia guide to the South Carolina Hall of Fame / by Emerson, W. Eric,1966-(CARDINAL)303599; South Carolina Hall of Fame.(CARDINAL)403774;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Hall of Fame inductees -- Baruch, Bernard M. -- Bass, Robert D. -- Bernardin, Cardinal Joseph -- Bethune, Mary McLeod -- Bolden, Charles F. Jr -- Bonham, James Butler -- Butler, Pierce -- Byrnes, James F. -- Calhoun, John C. -- Callen, Maude -- Chesnut, Mary Boykin -- Clemson, Thomas Green -- Coker, Elizabeth Boatwright -- Coker, James Lide -- Conroy, Pat -- Cunningham, Ann Pamela -- Dorn, William Jennings Bryan -- Drayton, William Henry -- Duke, Colonel Charles M., Jr. -- Edgar, Walter Bellingrath -- Edmunds, Francis Ravenel Smythe -- Edwards, James B. -- Farrow, William Glover "Bill" -- Finney, Ernest Adolphus, Jr. -- Floyd, Carlisle Sessions -- Gillespie, John Birks "Dizzy" -- Godbold, Lucile -- Gray, Wil Lou -- Gregg, William -- Hagler, King -- Hall, William S. -- Hampton, Wade, III -- Heller, John R. -- Heyward, Thomas, Jr. -- Hollings, Ernest Frederick "Fitz" -- Horry, Peter -- Howie, Thomas Dry -- Huntington, Anna Hyatt -- Jackson, Andrew -- Jasper, William -- Johns, Jasper -- Laurens, Henry -- Lynch, Thomas, Jr. -- Lynch, Thomas, Sr. -- Marion, Francis -- Marvin, Robert E. -- Mays, Benjamin E. -- McColl, Hugh L. Jr. -- McKissick, John -- McNair, Ronald Erwin -- McNair, Robert E. -- Middleton, Arthur -- Milliken, Roger -- Mills, Robert -- Moultrie, William -- Oliphant, Mary C. Simms -- Perry, Matthew J. -- Peterkin, Julia Mood -- Petigru, James Louis -- Pickens, Andrew -- Pinckney, Charles -- Pinckney, Charles Cotsworth -- Pinckney, Eliza Lucas -- Pinckney, Thomas -- Poinsett, Joel Roberts -- Richardson, Anne Worsham -- Richardson, Robert Clinton "Bobby" -- Riley, Richard -- Russell, Donald Stuart -- Rutledge, Edward -- Rutledge, John -- Rutledge, Archibald -- Simmons, Phillip -- Simms, William Gilmore -- Sims, James Marion -- Smalls, Robert -- Smart, Jacob Edward -- Springs, Elliot White -- Sumter, Thomas -- Thurmond, J. Strom -- Townes, Charles H. -- Travis, William Barret -- Verner, Elizabeth O'Neill -- Walker, William Aiken -- West, John C. -- Westmoreland, William C. -- Wylie, Walker Gill -- Yarborough, William Caleb "Cale" -- Young, Anne Austin.
Subjects: Biographies.; South Carolina Hall of Fame;
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Chambers book of great speeches / by Burnet, Andrew,editor.(CARDINAL)425335;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Bella Abzug -- Samuel Adams -- Jane Addams -- Salvador Allende -- Yasser Arafat -- Nancy Astor -- Clement Attlee -- Aung San Suu Kyi -- Stanley Baldwin -- Arthur Balfour -- Daniel Barenboim -- J.M. Barrie -- David Ben-Gurion -- Tony Benn -- Theobald von Bethmann-Hollweg -- Aneurin Bevan -- Benazir Bhutto -- Osama bin Laden -- Tony Blair -- Simón Bolívar -- Napoleon Bonaparte -- John Bright -- John Brown -- W.J. Bryan -- Edmund Burke -- George W. Bush -- Calgacus -- John C. Calhoun -- George Canning -- Roger Casement -- Fidel Castro -- Neville Chamberlain -- Charles I -- Charles, Prince of Wales -- St. John Chrysostom -- Winston Churchill -- Cicero -- John Cleese -- Bill Clinton -- Robert Clive -- Sebastian Coe -- Tim Collins -- Robin Cook -- Alistair Cooke -- Oliver Cromwell -- Mario Cuomo -- The Dalai Lama -- Clarence Darrow -- Eugene V. Debs -- Charles de Gaulle -- Demostenes -- Camille Desmoulins -- E¿ amon deValera -- Donald Dewar -- Charles Dickens -- Benjamin Disraeli -- Frederick Douglass -- Andrea Dworkin -- Anthony Eden -- Edward VIII -- Jonathan Edwards -- Albert Einstein -- Dwight D. Eisenhower -- Elizabeth I -- Elizabeth II -- Ralph Waldo Emerson -- Robert Emmet -- William Faulkner -- Mary Fisher -- Michael Foot -- Charles James Fox -- St. Francis of Assisi -- Benjamin Franklin -- Betty Friedan -- Milton Friedman -- George Galloway -- Mahatma Gandhi -- Giuseptpe Garibaldi -- Lou Gehrig -- George V -- Dick Gephardt -- William Gladstone -- Joseph Goebbels -- Emma Goldman -- Billy Graham -- Günter Grass -- Henry Grattan -- Angelina Grimké -- Jo Grimond -- Ernesto 'Che' Guevara -- William Hague -- Haile Selassi -- Dag Hammarskjöld -- Tom Hanks -- Jeremy Hanley -- Hannibal -- Keir Hardie -- Václav Havel -- Denis Healey -- Edward Heath -- Patrick Henry -- Chaim Herzog -- Charlton Heston -- Heinrich Himmler -- Adolf Hitler -- Ho Chi Minh -- Geoffrey Howe -- Victor Hugo -- Saddam Hussein -- Harold Ickes -- Edward Irving -- Isocrates -- Andrew Jackson -- James VI and I -- Jean Jaure's -- Thomas Jefferson -- Jesus of Nazareth -- Mohammed Ali Jinnah -- John Paul II -- Lyndon B. Johnson -- Chief Joseph -- Leon Kass -- Brian Keenan -- John F. Kennedy -- Robert F. Kennedy -- Nikita Khrushchev -- Martin Luther King -- Neil Kinnock -- Rudyard Kipling -- Vladimir Ilyich Lenin -- Abraham Lincoln -- David Lloyd George -- Patrice Lumumba -- Martin Luther -- Douglas MacArthur -- Thomas Macaulay -- Eugene McCarthy -- Hugh MacDiarmid -- Ramsay MacDonald -- John Maclean -- Harold Macmillan -- Malcolm X -- Nelson Mandela -- George C. Marshall -- Karl Marx -- James Maxton -- Golda Meir -- John Stuart Mill -- Honoré de Mirabeau -- Bernard Montgomery -- The Marquess of Montrose -- Michael Moore -- Thomas More -- Toni Morrison -- Benito Mussolini -- Jawaharlal Nehru -- Ingrid Newkirk -- John Henry Newman -- Richard M. Nixon -- Barack Obama -- Daniel O'Connell -- Laurencer Olivier -- Ian Paisley -- Emmeline Pankhurst -- Charles Stewart Parnell -- La Pasionaria (Dolores Ibárruri) -- St. Patrick -- George S. Patton -- Pádraig Pearse -- Pericles -- Harold Pinter -- William Pitt the Elder -- Sidney Poitier -- Enoch Powell -- Yitzhak Rabin -- Ronadl Reagan -- Chief Red Jacket -- Paul Reynaud -- Maximilien Robespierre -- John D. Rockefeller, Jr. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt -- Theodore Roosevelt -- Bertrand Russell -- Gerhard Schröder -- Chief Seattle -- George Bernard Shaw -- Margaret Chase Smith -- C.P. Snow -- Socrates -- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn -- Charles, Earl Spencer -- Joseph Stalin -- Elizabeth Cady Stanton -- David Steel -- Adlai Stevenson -- Charles Sumner -- Sun Yat-sen -- Jonathan Swift -- Rabindranath Tagore -- Mother Teresa of Calcutta -- Margaret Thatcher -- Dylan Thomas -- Leon Trotsky -- Harry S. Truman -- Sojourner Truth -- Desmond Tutu -- Mark Twain -- Bartomeo Vanzetti -- George G. Vest -- William Wallace -- Robert Walpole -- Booker T. Washington -- George Washington -- The Duke of Wellington -- Charles Wesley -- John We"The most comprehensive guide to the inspired and inspiring speeches that have shaped the world we live in"--Jacket.
Subjects: Speeches.;
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The presidency A to Z / by Peters, Gerhard(Gerhard D.)(CARDINAL)547095; Woolley, John T.(John Turner),1950-(CARDINAL)733651;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 684-690) and index.G: Garfield, James A -- Garner, John Nance -- Gerry, Elbridge -- Goldwater, Barry M -- Gore, Albert Jr -- Grant, Ulysses S -- Great Depression -- Great Society -- Group of Eight (G-8)/Group of Twenty (G-20) -- Guantanamo Bay -- H: -- Hail to the Chief -- Hamdan v Rumsfeld -- Hamilton, Alexander -- Hamlin, Hannibal -- Harding, Warren G -- Harrison, Benjamin -- Harrison, William Henry -- Hayes, Rutherford B -- Health and Human Services Department -- Hendricks, Thomas A -- Historic milestones of the presidency -- Hobart, Garret A -- Homeland Security Department -- Honeymoon period -- Hoover, Herbert C -- Hoover Commissions -- Housing and Urban Development Department -- Hughes, Charles Evans -- Humphrey, Hubert H -- Humphrey's Executor v United States -- Hurricane Katrina -- I: -- Immigration and Naturalization Service v Chadha -- Impeachment -- Impoundment -- Inauguration -- Independent Executive agencies -- Independent regulatory agencies -- Interest groups and the presidency -- Interior Department -- Iran-Contra affair -- Iraq War (Operation Iraqi Freedom) -- J: -- Jackson, Andrew -- Japanese American internment -- Jefferson, Thomas -- Johnson, Andrew -- Johnson, Lady Bird -- Johnson, Lyndon B -- Johnson, Richard M -- Joint Chiefs of Staff -- Justice Department -- K: -- Kennedy, Jacqueline -- Kennedy, John F -- Kerry, John -- King, William R -- Kitchen cabinet -- Korean War -- L: -- La Follette, Robert M -- Labor Department -- Lame duck -- Landon, Alfred -- Law enforcement powers -- Legislative veto -- Libraries -- Lincoln, Abraham -- Lincoln, Mary Todd -- Line-item veto -- Louisiana Purchase -- M: -- McCain, John -- McCarthy, Eugene J -- McClellan, George B -- McGovern, George S -- McKinley, William -- Madison, Dolley -- Madison, James -- Management and Budget, Office of -- Marshall, Thomas R -- Martial law -- Media and the presidency -- Memorials, presidential -- Mexican-American War of 1846 -- Midterm elections -- Milligan, Ex parte -- Mondale, Walter F -- Monroe, James -- Monroe Doctrine -- Morton, Levi P -- Myers v United States -- N: -- National Archives and Records Administration -- National bank -- National Economic Council -- National Intelligence , Office of the Director of -- National party conventions -- National security adviser -- National Security Council -- Neutrality Proclamation of 1793 -- New Deal -- New Freedom -- New Frontier -- Nixon, Pat -- Nixon, Richard -- O: -- Oath of office -- Obama, Barack -- Obama, Michelle --List of figures and list of tables -- About the authors -- Preface -- A: -- Adams, Abigail -- Adams, John -- Adams, John Quincy -- Agnew, Spiro T -- Agriculture Department -- Air Force One -- Appointment and removal power (Executive Branch) -- Arthur, Chester A -- Article II -- Assassinations and assaults -- B: -- Background of presidents -- Barkley, Alben W -- Bell, John -- Biden, Joseph Jr -- Blaine, James G -- Blair House -- Breckinridge, John C -- Brownlow Committee -- Bryan, William Jennings -- Buchanan, James -- Buckley v Valeo -- Budget process -- Bureaucracy -- Burr, Aaron -- Bush, Barbara -- Bush, George H W -- Bush, George W -- Bush, Laura -- Bush v Gore -- C: -- Cabinet -- Calhoun, John C -- Camp David -- Campaign debates -- Campaign financing -- Carter, Jimmy -- Carter, Rosalynn -- Central Intelligence Agency -- Cheney, Richard B -- Chief of Staff -- Chief of State -- Civil Service -- Civil War -- Clay, Henry -- Cleveland, Grover -- Clinton v Jones -- Clinton, Bill -- Clinton, George -- Clinton, Hillary Rodham -- Colfax, Schuyler -- Commerce Department -- Commissions, Presidential -- Congress and the presidency -- Congressional caucus (King Caucus) -- Constitutional powers and provisions -- Coolidge, Calvin -- Counsel to the president -- Court-packing plan -- Courts and the president -- Crawford, William Harris -- Curtis, Charles -- D: -- Daily and family life -- Dallas, George M -- Davis, Jefferson -- Dawes, Charles G -- Death of the president -- Debs, Eugene V -- Defense Department -- Delegate selection reforms -- Dewey, Thomas E -- Diplomatic powers -- Disability amendment -- Doctrines, presidential -- Dole, Robert J -- Douglas, Stephen A -- Dukakis, Michael S -- E: -- Economic Advisers, Council of -- Economic powers -- Education Department -- Eisenhower, Dwight D -- Elections and campaigns -- Elections chronology -- Electoral College -- Emancipation Proclamation -- Emergency powers -- Energy Department -- Environmental Protection Agency -- Ethics -- Executive agreements -- Executive office buildings -- Executive office of the president -- Executive orders -- Executive privilege -- F: - Fairbanks, Charles W -- Fair Deal -- Farewell addresses -- Federal Bureau of Investigation -- Federal Election Commission -- Federalist Papers -- Federal Reserve System -- Ferraro, Geraldine A -- Fillmore, Millard -- First hundred days -- First ladies -- Ford, Betty -- Ford, Gerald R -- Former presidents --P: -- Pardon power -- Party leader -- Patronage -- Perot, Ross H -- Persian Gulf War (Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm) -- Personnel Management, Office of -- Pierce, Franklin -- Political parties -- Polk, James K -- Presidential greatness -- Presidential Medal of Freedom -- Press conferences -- Press Secretary, Presidential -- Primaries and caucuses -- Proclamations and endorsements -- Public opinion and the presidency -- Q: Qualifications of the president and vice president -- Quayle, Dan -- R: -- Reagan, Nancy -- Reagan, Ronald -- Reconstruction -- Religion and the presidency -- Rockefeller, Nelson A -- Roosevelt, Eleanor -- Roosevelt, Franklin D -- Roosevelt, Theodore -- S: -- Salary and perquisites -- Seals of Office -- Secret Service -- Senatorial courtesy -- Separation of powers -- Sherman, James S -- Signing statements -- Smith, Alfred E -- Spanish-American War of 1898 -- Special counsel -- Speeches and rhetoric -- Square Deal -- Staff -- State Department -- State of the Union Address -- Stevenson, Adlai E -- Stevenson, Adlai E, II -- Stewardship theory -- Succession -- Summit meetings -- T: -- Taft, William Howard -- Taylor, Zachary -- Teapot Dome scandal -- Term of office -- Third parties -- Thurmond, J Strom -- Tilden, Samuel J -- Titles of the president and vice president -- Tompkins, Daniel D -- Trade policy -- Trade Representative, Office of the U S -- Transition period -- Transportation Department -- Travel -- Treasury Department -- Treaty power -- Truman, Harry S -- Tyler, John -- U: -- Unitary executive theory -- United Nations -- United States v Curtiss-Wright Export Corp -- United States v Nixon -- V: -- Van Buren, Martin -- Veterans Affairs Department -- Veto power -- Vice president -- Vice-presidential residence -- Vietnam War -- W: -- Wallace, George C -- Wallace, Henry A -- War in Afghanistan -- War of 1812 -- War on terrorism -- War powers -- War Powers Act of 1973 -- Washington, George -- Washington, Martha -- Watergate affair -- Weaver, James B -- Wheeler, William A -- Whiskey Rebellion -- Whiskey ring scandal -- White House -- Willkie, Wendell L -- Wilson, Edith -- Wilson, Henry -- Wilson, Woodrow -- World War I -- World War II -- Y: -- Youngstown Sheet and Tube Co v Sawyer -- Z: -- Zapruder film -- Reference material: -- U S Presidents and Vice Presidents, 1789-2012 -- Backgrounds of U S Presidents, 1789-2012 -- Summary of Presidential Elections, 1789-2008 -- Party affiliations in Congress and the Presidency, 1789-2013 -- Presidential Cabinets, 1789-2012 -- U S Government Organizational Chart -- Government resources on the Web -- Constitution of the United States -- Selected bibliography -- Index.From the Back Cover: An invaluable and authoritative reference for understanding the highest office in the land. The Presidency A to Z is an authoritative and engaging volume that provides readers with the information they need to understand the executive branch, the men who have held the office of president, and the people and organizations that support them. This fifth edition includes new biographies of Barack Obama, Michelle Obama, John McCain, and Joseph Biden; revised coverage of presidential relations with Congress, the Supreme Court, the bureaucracy, political parties, the media, interest groups, and the public; updated entries on the Iraq War, the war in Afghanistan, and Guantanamo Bay; and expanded content on the budget process and campaign finance. With a historical and contemporary focus, The Presidency A to Z offers quick information and in-depth background on how the executive branch has responded to the challenges facing the nation. More than 300 comprehensive entries provide: Biographies of each president and other individuals who have played important roles in the executive branch; Explanation of key concepts and powers relating to the presidency; Comprehensive coverage of presidential elections; Analysis of executive branch relations with the legislative and judicial branches; Exploration of the policies of each president and their effects on U S and world history. Appendixes offer valuable reference material on U S presidents and vice presidents, their background, and service dates; a summary of presidential elections; and thorough coverage of major cabinet officials. The Presidency A to Z is part of the five-volume American Government A to Z series published by CQ Press.
Subjects: Encyclopedias.; Biographies.; Presidents; Presidents;
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The patriot's history reader : essential documents for every American / by Allen, Michael,1950-(CARDINAL)779244; Dougherty, Dave,1939-(CARDINAL)396594; Schweikart, Larry.(CARDINAL)526579; Schweikart, Larry.Patriot's history of the United States.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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