The History Buff's Guide to the Presidents: Key People, Places, and EventsCumberland House, 2007 - 400 pages Americans have named schools, counties, rivers, cities, and even their own children after U.S. presidents. Their work is in our laws, their words adorn our monuments, and their countenances appear in a trillion places (mostly on our currency). Can we truly say we understand the office and its phenomenal history? What do we really know about the men who helped transform a struggling republic into a superpower? Using detailed top-ten lists, historian ThomasR. Flagel offers a provocative new look at an astonishingly resilient institution in The History Buff's Guide(tm) to the Presidents. With diligent research, he explores the best, worst, largest, and most controversial facets of an office that some feared would become a monarchy, others hoped would represent all of the people, and John Adams wanted to call "High Highness, the President of the United States of America, and the Protector of theirLiberties." Chapters include:
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