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OverviewFrom the acclaimed bestselling author of The Conquerors Michael Beschloss's dramatic and inspiring saga explores crucial times when a courageous President changed the history of the United States. With surprising new sources and a dazzling command of history and human character, Beschloss brings these flawed, complex men -- and their wives, families, friends and foes -- to life as if in a gripping novel. Never have we had a more intimate, behind-the-scenes view of Presidents coping with the supreme dilemmas of their lives. In Presidential Courage you will witness George Washington braving threats of impeachment and assassination to make peace with England; John Adams, incurring his party's unrelenting hatred by refusing to fight France and warning, Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war; Andrew Jackson, in a death struggle against the corrupt Bank of the United States; Abraham Lincoln, risking his Presidency to insist that slaves be freed, as well as the crushing ordeals faced by Theodore and Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman, John Kennedy, and Ronald Reagan. As Beschloss shows, none of these Presidents was eager to incur ridicule, vilification or threats of political destruction and even assassination. But in the end, each ultimately proved himself to be, in Andrew Jackson's words, born for the storm. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Michael R Beschloss , Michael R BeschlossPublisher: Simon & Schuster Audio Imprint: Simon & Schuster Audio Edition: abridged edition Dimensions: Width: 13.40cm , Height: 2.60cm , Length: 14.90cm Weight: 0.168kg ISBN: 9780743561785ISBN 10: 0743561783 Publication Date: 08 May 2007 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Audio Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsReviewsMichael Beschloss...is clearly the most widely recognized Presidential historian in the nation.... Most Presidential historians...content themselves with writing biographies of individual Presidents.... And Beschloss has done that too.... But if any book can be said to epitomize the genre of Presidential history, Presidential Courage does. -- Mary Beth Norton, The New York Times Book Review Author InformationTab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |