Presidential Courage
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Presidential Courage

Brave Leaders and How They Changed America 1789-1989

  1. 400 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Presidential Courage

Brave Leaders and How They Changed America 1789-1989

About this book

From the acclaimed bestselling author of The Conquerors comes a brilliantly readable and inspiring saga about crucial times in America's history when a courageous president dramatically changed the future of the United States.

With surprising new sources and a dazzling command of history and human character, Michael Beschloss brings to life the flawed, complex men who changed America's history. From George Washington, braving threats of impeachment and assassination to make peace with England, to John Adams, incurring his party's unrelenting hatred by refusing to fight France, and from Andrew Jackson, in a death struggle against the corrupt Bank of the United States, to Abraham Lincoln, risking his Presidency to insist that slaves be freed, Beschloss provides an intimate, behind-the-scenes view of presidents coping with the supreme dilemmas of their lives.

Gripping and important, Presidential Courage reveals that none of these presidents were eager to incur ridicule, vilification, or threats of political destruction and even assassination. But in the end, bolstered by friends and family, hidden private beliefs, and faith, each ultimately proved himself to be, in Andrew Jackson's words, "born for the storm."

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Dedication
  3. Preface
  4. Chapter One: A Speedy Death to General Washington!
  5. Chapter Two: Kick this Treaty to Hell!
  6. Chapter Three: The Damnedest Liar
  7. Chapter Four: He May Retire with Undiminish’d Glory
  8. Chapter Five: Rivalries Irritated to Madness
  9. Chapter Six: Oh, That I Was a Soldier!
  10. Chapter Seven: Rocks and Quicksands on All Sides
  11. Chapter Eight: The Most Splendid Diamond in my Crown
  12. Chapter Nine: I Will Kill It!
  13. Chapter Ten: Not A Man to be Forced
  14. Chapter Eleven: I Was Born for the Storm
  15. Chapter Twelve: Who Would have had the Courage?
  16. Chapter Thirteen: I am Going to be Beaten
  17. Chapter Fourteen: Too Angelic for this Devilish Rebellion
  18. Chapter Fifteen: A Well-Meaning Baboon
  19. Chapter Sixteen: The Country will be Saved
  20. Chapter Seventeen: I See Dynamite
  21. Chapter Eighteen: Black Storm
  22. Chapter Nineteen: A Rough-and-Tumble Man
  23. Chapter Twenty: I Upset them All
  24. Chapter Twenty-One: We Must Protect The Chief!
  25. Chapter Twenty-Two: Gloom Personified
  26. Chapter Twenty-Three: Salute Your Caesar?
  27. Chapter Twenty-Four: We have Avoided a Putsch
  28. Chapter Twenty-Five: No People Except the Hebrews
  29. Chapter Twenty-Six: The Right Place at the Right Time
  30. Chapter Twenty-Seven: How Could this have Happened?
  31. Chapter Twenty-Eight: I Am Cyrus!
  32. Chapter Twenty-Nine: They Never Show Their Passion
  33. Chapter Thirty: Go Get Him, Johnny Boy!
  34. Chapter Thirty-One: It’s Going to be a Civil War
  35. Chapter Thirty-Two: A Man has to take a Stand
  36. Chapter Thirty-Three: We Win and they Lose!
  37. Chapter Thirty-Four: It Left Me Greatly Depressed
  38. Chapter Thirty-Five: Don’t worry that I’ve lost My Bearings
  39. Chapter Thirty-Six: A Miracle Has Taken Place
  40. Epilogue: Presidential Courage
  41. Acknowledgments
  42. Illustration Credits
  43. Photographs
  44. Notes
  45. Endnotes
  46. Sources
  47. Index
  48. Copyright