Cross-Examining History
Subtitle: a Lawyer Gets Answers from the Experts About Our Presidents
Contributors: Burns, Ken
Publisher: Bright Sky Press
Published: 2016
Place of publication: Albany
Language: eng
Number of pages: 501
ISBN-13: 9781942945215; 9781942945208; 9781942945390
Subjects: Presidents; Biography; History
Table of contents: title: Cover ; Copyright; Dedication; Table of Contents; Foreword; Introduction; I: Founding Fathers; Chapter 1: George Washington; Chapter 2: John Adams; Chapter 3: Thomas Jefferson; Chapter 4: James Madison; Chapter 5: The Founders' Battle with Freedom of Speech; II: Nineteenth Century, After the Founders; Chapter 6: Andrew Jackson; Chapter 7: Abraham Lincoln; Chapter 8: Abraham Lincoln; Chapter 9: Ulysses S. Grant; III: Turn of the Century Until the New Deal; Chapter 10: The Roosevelts; Chapter 11: Theodore Roosevelt; Chapter 12: Woodrow Wilson; Chapter 13: Calvin Coolidge.; title: Chapter 14: Hoover, Coolidge, and the Birth of Republican ConservatismIV: Thirties Through Fifties; Chapter 15: Franklin D. Roosevelt; Chapter 16: Franklin D. Roosevelt; Chapter 17: Harry S. Truman; Chapter 18: Dwight Eisenhower; V: The Modern Era; Chapter 19: John F. Kennedy; Chapter 20: Lyndon B. Johnson & the Civil Rights Movement; Chapter 21: Richard Nixon; Chapter 22: The Nixon Tapes 1971-1972; Chapter 23: Ronald Reagan; Chapter 24: George H.W. Bush; Chapter 25: Bill Clinton; Chapter 26: The Post-World War II "Presidents Club"; VI: Presidential Insiders; Chapter 27: Lyndon B. Johnson.; title: Chapter 28: Henry Kissinger on His Life, Richard Nixon, & the Current International SituationChapter 29: James A. Baker, III on Ronald Reagan & George H.W. Bush; Chapter 30: John Sununu on George H.W. Bush; Chapter 31: Andy Card on Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush, & George W. Bush; Closing Thoughts; Acknowledgements; Index of Topics Covered.