Gerald R. Ford: The American Presidents Douglas Brinkley 2007 Hardcover 1st Ed

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Condition
Like New: A book in excellent condition. Cover is shiny and undamaged, and the dust jacket is ...
Binding
Hardcover
Product Group
Book
Weight
2 lbs
IsTextBook
No
ISBN
9780805069099
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Product Identifiers

Publisher
Holt & Company, Henry
ISBN-10
0805069097
ISBN-13
9780805069099
eBay Product ID (ePID)
58649888

Product Key Features

Book Title
Gerald R. Ford : the American Presidents Series: the 38th President, 1974-1977
Number of Pages
224 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2007
Topic
United States / 20th Century, Presidents & Heads of State
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, History
Author
Douglas Brinkley
Book Series
The American Presidents Ser.
Format
Hardcover

Dimensions

Item Height
0.6 in
Item Weight
13.1 Oz
Item Length
8.5 in
Item Width
5.5 in

Additional Product Features

Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2007-000208
Dewey Edition
22
Dewey Decimal
973.925092 B
Edition Description
Revised edition,Annotated edition
Synopsis
The "accidental" president whose innate decency and steady hand restored the presidency after its greatest crisis When Gerald R. Ford entered the White House in August 1974, he inherited a presidency tarnished by the Watergate scandal, the economy was in a recession, the Vietnam War was drawing to a close, and he had taken office without having been elected. Most observers gave him little chance of success, especially after he pardoned Richard Nixon just a month into his presidency, an action that outraged many Americans, but which Ford thought was necessary to move the nation forward. Many people today think of Ford as a man who stumbled a lot--clumsy on his feet and in politics--but acclaimed historian Douglas Brinkley shows him to be a man of independent thought and conscience, who never allowed party loyalty to prevail over his sense of right and wrong. As a young congressman, he stood up to the isolationists in the Republican leadership, promoting a vigorous role for America in the world. Later, as House minority leader and as president, he challenged the right wing of his party, refusing to bend to their vision of confrontation with the Communist world. And after the fall of Saigon, Ford also overruled his advisers by allowing Vietnamese refugees to enter the United States, arguing that to do so was the humane thing to do. Brinkley draws on exclusive interviews with Ford and on previously unpublished documents (including a remarkable correspondence between Ford and Nixon stretching over four decades), fashioning a masterful reassessment of Gerald R. Ford's presidency and his underappreciated legacy to the nation.
LC Classification Number
E866.B75 2007

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