Hail to the Chief - The Making and Unmaking of American Presidents

Dallek offers an engaging and instructive analysis of the presidency, the personalities, and the strategies that led to their triumphs and defeats.

About the author

Robert Dallek has taught history at several universities, including Columbia, UCLA, Boston University, and Oxford. He is the author of several books, including The New York Times Notable Books Lone Star Rising: Lyndon Johnson and His Times, 1908-1960, Flawed Giant: Lyndon Johnson and His Times, 1961-1973, The American Style of Foreign Policy: Cultural Politics and Foreign Affairs, and Franklin D. Roosevelt and American Foreign Policy, 1932-1945, which won the Bancroft Prize and was a nominee for the American Book Award in History.

Summary

This study consists of an examination of the presidency, the personalities who defined it, and the strategies that led to their triumphs or defeats.

Additional text

A provocative analysis of success and failure in the nation's most difficult job.

Product details

• Authors: Robert Dallek, Dallek Robert
• Publisher: Oxford Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 18.10.2001
• EAN: 9780195145823
• ISBN: 978-0-19-514582-3
• Dimensions: 213 mm x 137 mm x 20 mm
• Weight: 318 g
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Biographies, autobiographies; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; USA, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Political, Biography: historical, political & military, HISTORY / United States / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / American Government / National, United States of America, USA, History of the Americas, Biography: historical, political and military, Central / national / federal government, Central government