Hatred of America's Presidents - Personal Attacks on the White House from Washington to Trump

This work examines expressions of personal hostility and animosity toward presidents-even beloved ones-throughout American history and their impact on policymaking, politics, and culture. People involved or simply interested in politics often ask whether today''s political environment is more toxic than ever before. Hatred of America''s Presidents: Personal Attacks on the White House from Washington to Trump presents an impartial and authoritative history of invective toward the White House so readers can determine the answer for themselves.The book focuses on the most representative and commonplace attacks of a vitriolic and personal nature, detailing who instigated and trafficked in the attacks and how presidents, administrations, and political parties defended themselves. It also illustrates how honest disagreements about policy-such as FDR''s New Deal, Ronald Reagan''s Central America policies, George W. Bush''s invasion of Iraq, and Barack Obama''s Affordable Care Act-fueled expressions of hatred and condemnation. Finally, the book includes perspectives from both the right and the left on the legitimacy of these attacks and the victims'' defenses as well as their impact on American politics and policy.>

List of contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. George Washington
2. John Adams
3. Thomas Jefferson
4. James Madison
5. James Monroe
6. John Quincy Adams
7. Andrew Jackson
8. Martin Van Buren
9. William Henry Harrison
10. John Tyler
11. James K. Polk
12. Zachary Taylor
13. Millard Fillmore
14. Franklin Pierce
15. James Buchanan
16. Abraham Lincoln
17. Andrew Johnson
18. Ulysses S. Grant
19. Rutherford B. Hayes
20. James Garfield
21. Chester A. Arthur
22. Grover Cleveland
23. Benjamin Harrison
25. William McKinley
26. Theodore Roosevelt
27. William Howard Taft
28. Woodrow Wilson
29. Warren G. Harding
30. Calvin Coolidge
31. Herbert Hoover
32. Franklin D. Roosevelt
33. Harry S. Truman
34. Dwight D. Eisenhower
35. John F. Kennedy
36. Lyndon B. Johnson
37. Richard M. Nixon
38. Gerald R. Ford
39. Jimmy Carter
40. Ronald Reagan
41. George H. W. Bush
42. William J. Clinton
43. George W. Bush
44. Barack Obama
45. Donald J. Trump
About the Editor and Contributors
Index

Product details

• Authors: Lori (EDT) Han, Lori Cox Han
• Assisted by: Lori Han (Editor), Lori Cox Han (Editor), Han Lori Cox (Editor)
• Publisher: Abc Clio Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.06.2018
• EAN: 9781440854361
• ISBN: 978-1-4408-5436-1
• No. of pages: 416
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; USA, Media Studies, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Political, Biography: historical, political & military, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, POLITICAL SCIENCE / American Government / National, Political structure & processes, Political leaders & leadership, United States of America, USA, Biography: historical, political and military, Political leaders and leadership, Central / national / federal government, Political structure and processes, Central government