[PDF] White House Autumn Cc eBook

Author : Ellen Emerson White
Publisher : Avon Books
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 45,62 MB
Release : 1985
Category : Assassination
ISBN : 9780380897803

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The world's most famous house can be a terrible place to live. Meg thought living in the White House would get easier--not harder.

Author : Eliot Vestner
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 620 pages
File Size : 40,49 MB
Release : 2020-06-16
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1947951254

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History played a trick on McKinley. He has been consigned to the shadows between Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt, vilified or ignored by historians . . . It is a richly undeserved fate. As Eliot Vestner demonstrates in this narrative of the political life of William McKinley, there was much more to the twenty-fifth president’s tenure in office than history books allow. He was a popular president, winning a second term with ease. But only nine months into it, he was assassinated by a self-described anarchist. What more he might have accomplished is anyone’s guess. He had managed to successfully pull America out of one of the worst economic depressions yet experienced, the Panic of 1893. And his controversial tariffs strengthened industry and contributed to the overall wealth of the country, as did his return of the country to the gold standard. He also led the U.S. to victory in the Spanish-American war, and implemented the first steps toward building the Panama Canal, which his successor, Theodore Roosevelt, continued. Perhaps the most under-appreciated aspect of McKinley’s presidency was his advocacy for black civil rights, and his challenge to the white supremacy of the south. As governor of Ohio, he fought against lynching. He signed a ground-breaking anti-lynching bill. Ironically, as president, he had a much more difficult time combating violence and racial injustice because of the use of states’ rights as justification for voter suppression and terrorism towards blacks. He pursued opportunities to advance the interests of black Americans wherever he could, but his inability to stop the lynchings and disfranchisement of blacks was most regrettable. His successors had no interest in the race issue, which remained unresolved until the 1954 court decision in Brown v. The Board of Education. This book gives McKinley his due, and thereby helps us better understand a President of the United States whose work has seemingly been overlooked by most Americans today.

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Page : 730 pages
File Size : 28,99 MB
Release : 1850
Category : Cattle
ISBN :

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Vols. - include the Shorthorn Society's Grading register for beef Shorthorn cattle; v. - include the society's Herd book of poll shorthorns.

Author : Gary Scott Smith
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 678 pages
File Size : 11,26 MB
Release : 2006-10-12
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0195300602

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Author : Richard Allen Schwarzlose
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 46,58 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780810108189

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Richard A. Schwarzlose's long-awaited two-volume The Nation's Newsbrokers makes a major contribution to the history of journalism in the United States. Schwarzlose traces the development of the Associated Press and the predecessors of United Press International from scattered beginnings in the 1840s to their emergence as a mature national institution in the World War I era. In Volume 1, Schwarzlose analyzes the problems of communication and transportation in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and examines the news media before and during the Civil War.