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Online Access: Full text (MCPHS users only)
Other Authors: Eksterowicz, Anthony J., Hastedt, Glenn P., 1950-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Hauppauge, NY : Nova Science Publishers, 2010
Series:White House studies.
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Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Forging the eagle's sword: President Washington, the Congress and the Army / Ryan Staude
  • A squadron of observation: Thomas Jefferson and America's first war against terrorism / Craig L. Symonds
  • Wars of choice: James Madison, George W. Bush and the presidential legacy question / Anthony Eksterowicz and Glenn P. Hastedt
  • Abraham Lincoln: The president who changed the role of commander-in-chief / Frank J. Williams
  • Ex parte Milligan: Lincoln's use of military commissions / Joseph R. Thysell, Jr.
  • For love or for money: William McKinley and the Spanish-American War / Jeffrey Bloodworth
  • War counsel: Military advice in the White House / Brent A. Strathman
  • Regime formation and maturation in the White House: The rise of internationalism during the administration of Theodore Roosevelt / Tom Lansford
  • The Wilson presidency, the U.S. Navy, and homeland defense / George H. Quester
  • Franklin D. Roosevelt's first trip to the West Coast: A president prefigured / David T. Leary
  • Absorbing the first blow: Truman and the Cold War / John M Schuessler
  • It's not enough to say we're in the Vietnam simply because Ike got us there: Lyndon Johnson and the constraints of continuity in Vietnam policymaking / Nicole Anslover
  • Lonesome dove: The pope, the president, the church, and Vietnam, 1963-1969 / Lawrence J. McAndrews
  • No winners, no losers: Reagan, The Iran-Iraq War and the gulf's perpetual security dilemma / Bernd Kaussler
  • Presidential war powers and the war on terrorism: Are we destined to repeal our mistakes? / Martin S. Sheffer
  • Presidents and war: Notes on the end of constitutionalism / James K. Oliver
  • Speech on the implementation of the GI Bill extending educational benefits to veterans / Barack Obama
  • About the contributors
  • Indeix.