William E. Leuchtenburg (William Rand Kenan Jr. Professor Emeritus

Broschiertes Buch

The American President

From Teddy Roosevelt to Bill Clinton

Beschreibung

The American President is an enthralling account of American presidential actions from the assassination of William McKinley in 1901 to Bill Clinton's last night in office in January 2001. William Leuchtenburg, a prize-winning historian, portrays each of the presidents in a chronicle sparkling with anecdote and wit.

Autor

William E. Leuchtenburg, is the William Rand Kenan, Jr. Professor Emeritus of History at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Over the course of six decades, he taught at Columbia University, UNC-Chapel Hill, and, as a visiting professor, at Harvard, Cornell, Duke, William and Mary and other American universities, as well as at Oxford where he held the Harmsworth chair. He served as presidential elections analyst for NBC and as presidential inauguration consultant for CBS, PBS, and C-SPAN. Elected president of the American Historical Association, the Organization of American Historians, and the Society of American Historians, he is the first recipient of the Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. Award for Distinguished Writing in American History of Enduring Public Significance. He is the author of fifteen books, including The Perils of Prosperity, 1914-32, Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal, 1932-1940, and In the Shadow of FDR: From Harry Truman to Ronald Reagan.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press Inc
• Seitenzahl: 912
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 208mm x 140mm x 51mm
• Gewicht: 1044g
• ISBN-13: 9780190907020
• ISBN-10: 0190907029
• Artikelnr.: 51384350