| Description |
ix, 195 p. ; 25 cm. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (p. [173]-188) and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction : they had it all, but then what happened? -- George Washington : the first president, the first former president -- John Adams and Thomas Jefferson : friends, enemies, and ultimately friends -- James Madison and James Monroe : the last of the Virginia dynasty -- John Quincy Adams : Old Man Eloquent -- The Jacksonians : Jefferson's heirs and beyond -- A bizarre historical footnote : Zachary Taylor -- Doughfaces : Northern men with Southern principles -- Reconstruction presidents : the aftermath of war -- Presidents of the "Gilded Age" -- Theodore Roosevelt : the Bull Moose -- Between the Roosevelts : retiring into a changed world -- Cold War presidents -- James Earl Carter, Jr. : Nobel laureate -- From Reagan through Bush to Clinton : a study in contrasts -- Some concluding thoughts. |
| Subject |
Ex-presidents -- United States -- Biography.
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Presidents -- United States -- Biography.
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| ISBN |
0312295596 |
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