Weintraub, Stanley

Summary: In "Young Mr. Roosevelt" Stanley Weintraub evokes Franklin Delano Roosevelt's political and wartime beginnings. An unpromising patrician playboy appointed assistant secretary of the Navy in 1913, Roosevelt learned quickly and rose to national visibility in World War I. Democratic vice-presidential nominee in 1920, he lost the election but not his ambitions. While his stature was rising, his...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Da Capo Press, A Member of the Perseus Books Group 2013

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ROOSEVELT, FRANKLIN D WEI

Stabler, David

Summary: Presents twenty stories featuring the United States presidents when they were children, including William Taft's dance lessons, Lyndon Johnson's classroom pranks, and Gerald Ford's struggles with dyslexia.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Quirk Books 2014

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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J920 STA

McGovern, George S. (George Stanley)

Summary: Abraham Lincoln towers above the others who have held the office of president--the pillar of strength whose words bound up the nation's wounds. His presidency is the hinge on which American history pivots, the time when the young republic collapsed of its own contradictions and a new birth of freedom, sanctified by blood, created the United States we know today. His story has been told many...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Times Books/Henry Holt and Co. 2009

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 LINCOLN, ABRAHAM MCG