Presidential Courage: Brave Leaders and How They Changed America 1789 - 1989

Beschloss, Michael R.

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9780743561785: Presidential Courage: Brave Leaders and How They Changed America 1789 - 1989

ISBN 10: 0743561783 ISBN 13: 9780743561785

Publisher: Simon & Schuster, 2007

Documents crucial historical moments in each of the first forty-three presidencies during which the future of the United States has been dramatically affected by a bold executive decision, in an account that offers insight into the factors that influenced the most difficult choices made by each president. Read by Michael R. Beschloss. Simultaneous.

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"Michael 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

About the Author:

Michael Beschloss has been called "the nation's leading Presidential historian" by Newsweek. He has written eight books on American Presidents and is NBC News Presidential Historian, as well as contributor to PBS's The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer. He lives in Washington, D.C., with his wife and two sons.

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