The President's First Year
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The President's First Year

None Were Prepared, Some Never Learned - Why the Only School for Presidents Is the Presidency

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eBook - ePub

The President's First Year

None Were Prepared, Some Never Learned - Why the Only School for Presidents Is the Presidency

About this book

A fascinating new angle on presidential history, assessing the performances of the presidents in their freshman year of the toughest job in the world. Grouped by the issues the new presidents confronted in their first years in office, the book takes readers into the history, thought processes, and results on a case-by-case basis, including how the presidents' subsequent actions proved that they learned (or didn't learn) from their mistakes. From George Washington to Barack Obama, The President's First Year details the challenging first twelve months of all our presidents' tenures.

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Information

Publisher
Lyons Press
Year
2016
eBook ISBN
9781493023950
Topic
History
Subtopic
North American History
Index
History

Table of contents

  1. Notes on the Text
  2. Introduction: The Freshman President
  3. Chapter 1: The Model Others Failed to Follow
  4. Chapter 2: Witch Hunters: Sedition and McCarthyism
  5. Chapter 3: The Loners
  6. Chapter 4: Conflicts They Might Have Prevented, Avoided, or Won: 1812, Vietnam, 9/11, Afghanistan, and Iraq
  7. Chapter 5: America’s Original Sin: Slavery
  8. Chapter 6: Professional Generals of the Nineteenth Century: Counterweights of the West
  9. Chapter 7: Taxation with Representation: Tariffs to Income Taxes
  10. Chapter 8: Panic, Laissez Faire, and Depression
  11. Chapter 9: In Defiance of Party
  12. Chapter 10: Empire Wars: Mexico and Spain
  13. Chapter 11: Invade or Blockade: Fort Sumter, the Bay of Pigs, and the Cuban Missile Crisis
  14. Chapter 12: Machine Men
  15. Chapter 13: Reform Men
  16. Chapter 14: Unpardonable Scandals: Teapot Dome, Dirty Tricks, and an Unpardonable Pardon
  17. Chapter 15: An Absence of Deterrence: World War I and World War II
  18. The Freshman President’s Epilogue: The World’s Most Exclusive University
  19. Appendix A. Details for Income Tax as a Percentage of Gross Income 1913–2013
  20. Appendix B. The Anaconda Plan
  21. Appendix C. The Lincoln-Greeley Letter
  22. Appendix D. The Nixon Pardon
  23. Acknowledgments
  24. Endnotes
  25. Selected Bibliography