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Summary: "Advance praise for Destiny and Power: 'Altogether fair, insightful. A portrait made especially compelling by the author's remarkable access to Bush's private White House diaries. This is a timely, first-rate book!'--David McCullough; 'What a spectacular and moving portrait this is--not only of a remarkably classy man but of the era that shaped him! It is hard to imagine a biographer more...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2015
Copies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Bio BushMeacham, Jon.
Summary: A thought-provoking study of Andrew Jackson chronicles the life and career of a self-made man who went on to become a military hero and seventh president of the United States, critically analyzing Jackson's seminal role during a turbulent era in history, the political crises and personal upheaval that surrounded him, and his legacy for the modern presidency.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 JACCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 JACKSON, ANDREW MEACopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Hist US Pres MeachamMeacham, Jon.
Summary: "Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power" gives readers Jefferson the politician and president, a great and complex human being forever engaged in the wars of his era. Philosophers think; politicians maneuver. Jefferson's genius was that he was both and could do both, often simultaneously, catapulting him into becoming the most successful political leader of the early republic, and perhaps in all of...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2012