Where the Buck Stops by Truman, Harry -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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INTRODUCTION PART I: SOME PRESIDENTS WE COULD HAVE DONE WITHOUT

1: ORDINARY MEN AND THREE GREAT PRESIDENTS 2: FIVE MORE GREAT PRESIDENTS 3: DO-NOTHING PRESIDENTS―YAYLOR, FILLMORE, PIERCE, AND BUCHANAN 4: ALL ABOUT GRANT 5: HARDING AND COOLIDGE 6: FREEDOM―OR ABUSE?―OF THE PRESS 7: EISENHOWER AND GENERALS AS PRESIDENTS 8: WHY I DON'T LIKE IKE

PART II: WAHT IT TAKES TO BE A GOOD PRESIDENT

9: MAKING UP YOUR MIND 10: STICKING TO IT 11: LISTENING AND PRESUADING 12: ACCEPTING THE PAST AND HAVING ENOUGH TIME

PART III: HOW AMERICA GOT STARTED

13: WHY PEOPLE CAME TO AMERICA 14: WHAT LED TO THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION 15: WASHINGTON―A GENERAL WITHOUT EXPERIENCE 16: LOSING THE BATTLES, WINNING THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR 17: WASHINGTON―A GREAT AND UNPOPULAR PRESIDENT 18: THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE

PART IV: OUR GREAT PRESIDENTS AND SOME IN BETWEEN

19: WASHINGTON, CHIEF EXECUTIVE 20: ISOLATIONISM: OUR FIRST FOREIGN POLICY 21: BECOMING A WORLD POWER, DROPPING THE BOMB 22: JEFFERSON THE POPULIST 23: JEFFERSON―THE MAN, THE PRESIDENT 24: THE CONSTITUTION―STRETCHED OR BROKEN? 25: MADISON AND THE WAR OF 1812 26: MINOR PRESIDENTS: MONROE AND JOHN QUINCY ADAMS 27: MY FAVORITE PRESIDENT: ANDREW JACKSON 28: AMERICA'S TREATMENT OF THE INDIANS 29: JACKSON, CHAMPION OF THE COMMON PEOPLE 30: VAN BUREN, TYLER, AND A GREAT PRESIDENT―POLK 31: LINCOLN, SURROUNDED BY TRAGEDY 32: WOODROW WILSON―TOO SMART TO BE PRESIDENT? 33: FDR (AND ME)

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