ISBN: 9780761808947

Statesmen Who Were Never President is part of a series that searches for an answer to the question: "Why do great men never become president?" The book examines the political and and pers… More...

Statesmen Who Were Never President is part of a series that searches for an answer to the question: "Why do great men never become president?" The book examines the political and and personal lives of nine statesmen who were never elected president. Part I spotlights William Gibbs McAdoo and James G. Blaine, statesmen during the Progressive Era. The next section examines statesmen during the. Statesmen Who Were Never President is part of a series that searches for an answer to the question: "Why do great men never become president?" The book examines the political and and personal lives of nine statesmen who were never elected president. Part I spotlights William Gibbs McAdoo and James G. Blaine, statesmen during the Progressive Era. The next section examines statesmen during the modern presidency including Robert Taft, Senator Mike Mansfield, and J. William Fullbright. Part III focuses on those statesmen who worked for social welfare concerns: Morris Udall, Senator Edmund Muskie, and Nelson A. Rockefeller. Some may have been more qualified to be senator or lacked the ambition to pursue the presidential office, while others suffered from questionable judgment or fell prey to illness or political attacks. The volume pulls together insights from earlier studies as well as original testimony of intimates and scholars at the Miller Center, seeking to look comparatively at these findings about selected statesmen. Books, Society and Social Sciences~~Politics & Government, Statesmen Who Were Never President~~Book~~9780761808947~~Kenneth W. Thompson, , , , , , , , , ,, [PU: University Press of America]<

ISBN: 9780761808947

Statesmen Who Were Never President is part of a series that searches for an answer to the question: Why do great men never become president? The book examines the political and and perso… More...

Statesmen Who Were Never President is part of a series that searches for an answer to the question: Why do great men never become president? The book examines the political and and personal lives of nine statesmen who were never elected president. Part I spotlights William Gibbs McAdoo and James G. Blaine, statesmen during the Progressive Era. The next section examines statesmen during the modern presidency including Robert Taft, Senator Mike Mansfield, and J. William Fullbright. Part III focuses on those statesmen who worked for social welfare concerns: Morris Udall, Senator Edmund Muskie, and Nelson A. Rockefeller. Some may have been more qualified to be senator or lacked the ambition to pursue the presidential office, while others suffered from questionable judgment or fell prey to illness or political attacks. The volume pulls together insights from earlier studies as well as original testimony of intimates and scholars at the Miller Center, seeking to look comparatively at these findings about selected statesmen. Kenneth W. Thompson, Books, Social and Cultural Studies, Statesmen Who Were Never President Books>Social and Cultural Studies, University Press of America<

ISBN: 9780761808947

Statesmen Who Were Never President is part of a series that searches for an answer to the question: Why do great men never become president? The book examines the political and and pe… More...

Statesmen Who Were Never President is part of a series that searches for an answer to the question: Why do great men never become president? The book examines the political and and personal lives of nine statesmen who were never elected president. Part I spotlights William Gibbs McAdoo and James G. Blaine, statesmen during the Progressive Era. The next section examines statesmen during the modern presidency including Robert Taft, Senator Mike Mansfield, and J. William Fullbright. Part III focuses on those statesmen who worked for social welfare concerns: Morris Udall, Senator Edmund Muskie, and Nelson A. Rockefeller. Some may have been more qualified to be senator or lacked the ambition to pursue the presidential office, while others suffered from questionable judgment or fell prey to illness or political attacks. The volume pulls together insights from earlier studies as well as original testimony of intimates and scholars at the Miller Center, seeking to look comparatively at these findings about selected statesmen. Trade Books>Hardcover>Biography>US Polit Leaders Biog,Memoir>US Polit Lead Biog,Memoir, UPA Core >2<

ISBN: 9780761808947

Co-published with the Miller Center for Public Affairs. Contents: Preface, Kenneth W. Thompson; Introduction, Kenneth W. Thompson; Clay, Calhoun, and Webster, Merill D. Peterson; John… More...

Co-published with the Miller Center for Public Affairs. Contents: Preface, Kenneth W. Thompson; Introduction, Kenneth W. Thompson; Clay, Calhoun, and Webster, Merill D. Peterson; John Sherman and James G. Blaine: Two Who Failed, Ari Hoogenboom; William Jennings Bryan: The Voice and Hope of the People, David D. Anderson; Robert M. La Follette of Wisconsin, Kenneth W. Thompson; Senator Estes Kefauver, Charles L. Fontenay; Richard B. Russell, Jr., Senator from Georgia, Gilbert C. Fite; General of the Army George C. Marshall, Soldier and Statesman, Ed Cray; The Candidacy That Never Was: Owen D. Young and the Presidential Election of 1932, Stephen A. Schuker; Concluding Observations, Kenneth W. Thompson. Trade Books>Hardcover>Biography>US Polit Leaders Biog,Memoir>US Polit Lead Biog,Memoir, UPA Core >2<

1997, ISBN: 9780761808947

Buch, Hardcover, 3rd edition, [PU: University Press of America], University Press of America, 1997