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Author
Publisher
Dutton, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"An award-winning presidential historian offers an authoritative account of American presidents' attacks on our freedom of the press. "The FAKE NEWS media," Donald Trump has tweeted, "is not my enemy. It is the enemy of the American people." Never has our free press faced so great a threat. Yet the tension between presidents and journalists is as old as the republic itself. From George Washington to Trump, presidents have quarreled with, attacked,...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
"One of our most eminent Lincoln scholars, winner of a Lincoln Prize for his Lincoln at Cooper Union, examines the four months between Lincoln's election and inauguration, when the president-elect made the most important decision of his coming presidency - there would be no compromise on slavery or secession of the slaveholding states, even at the cost of civil war." "Lincoln President-Elect is the first book to concentrate on Lincoln's public stance...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
"Lincoln at Cooper Union explores Lincoln's most influential and widely reported pre-presidential address - an extraordinary appeal by the western politician to the eastern elite that propelled him toward the Republican nomination for president. Delivered in New York in February 1860, the Cooper Union speech dispelled doubts about Lincoln's suitability for the presidency, and reassured conservatives of his moderation while reaffirming his opposition...
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