profiles in presidential courage Wallace, Chris creator text xxu New York Rugged Land c2004 monographic eng

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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. Chris Wallace. Presidents United States Biography Courage United States United States Politics and government E 176.1 .W35 2004 9781590710388 56315844 161003 20200219155644.0