Power And The Presidency

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Five of Americas leading historiansDavid McCullough, Doris Kearns Goodwin, Michael Beschloss, Robert Caro, Edmund Morris, and David Maranisseach analyze the career and the relationship to power of the President(s) that were the subject of their bestselling biographies. Renowned historian David McCullough, author of Truman, provides an introduction.. Doris Kearns Goodwin on Franklin D. Roosevelt; Michael Beschloss on Dwight D. Eisenhower and John F. Kennedy; Robert Caro on Lyndon Johnson; Edmund Morris on Ronald Reagan; and David Maraniss on William J. Clinton--how each came to power, wielded power, and was changed by power, and how each of these Presidencies affected the power of the office itself.

Robert A. Wilson has more than twenty-five years of experience in advertising, public relations, graphic design, and film production. Among other projects he has created are Richard Avedon's photography exhibition "In the American West," the PBS documentary "Where the Heart Is," and the book Character Above All: Ten Presidents from FDR to George Bush.David McCullough, Introduction Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winner David McCullough is the author of, among other works of history and biography, Truman, The Great Bridge, and Mornings on Horseback.