Book Description
Robert helps his friend Paul in his campaign to become class president.
Author : Barbara Seuling
Publisher :
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 34,1 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Children's stories
ISBN : 9780439443791
Robert helps his friend Paul in his campaign to become class president.
Author : Robert Newton Peck
Publisher : Knopf Books for Young Readers
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 33,74 MB
Release : 1998-11-17
Category : Friendship
ISBN : 9780679892595
Rob manages Soup's campaign for class president in their small Vermont town.
Author : Louis Sachar
Publisher : Random House Books for Young Readers
Page : 82 pages
File Size : 41,90 MB
Release : 1999-03-16
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 067988999X
This chapter book in Newbery Honor–winning and bestselling author Louis Sachar’s Marvin Redpost series stars Marvin and…the president of the United States? The president of the United States is coming to visit Marvin’s class. He’s even going to answer one question from each kid! Plus the whole thing is going to be on TV. Marvin is nervous. What if someone steals his question? What if he can’t speak when it’s his turn? Will he look silly in front of the president and everyone watching? Hilarious and relatable, Marvin Redpost is perfect for kids who love to bond with quirky characters like Junie B. Jones and George Brown, Class Clown.
Author : Johanna Hurwitz
Publisher :
Page : 85 pages
File Size : 44,8 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Elections
ISBN : 9780439699402
Julio hides his own leadership ambitions to help another candidate win the nomination for class president.
Author : Harcourt School Publishers Staff
Publisher :
Page : 8 pages
File Size : 26,97 MB
Release : 1995-01-01
Category : Children
ISBN : 9780153055850
Author : Catherine A. Hapka
Publisher : Random House Books for Young Readers
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 25,21 MB
Release : 2016
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1101933623
"Third-grader Will's little brother Steve enthusiastically manages Will's campaign for class president, despite Will's total lack of interest in running"--
Author : Robert M. Gates
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 673 pages
File Size : 34,30 MB
Release : 2014-01-14
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0307959481
From the former secretary of defense, a strikingly candid, vivid account of serving Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama during the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. When Robert M. Gates received a call from the White House, he thought he’d long left Washington politics behind: After working for six presidents in both the CIA and the National Security Council, he was happily serving as president of Texas A&M University. But when he was asked to help a nation mired in two wars and to aid the troops doing the fighting, he answered what he felt was the call of duty.
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Publisher : Theta Chi Fraternity Inc
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 17,81 MB
Release : 1925
Category : Greek letter societies
ISBN :
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Publisher :
Page : 708 pages
File Size : 31,16 MB
Release : 1902
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Author : Robert A. Caro
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 785 pages
File Size : 45,71 MB
Release : 2012-05-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0307960463
WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD, THE LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE, THE MARK LYNTON HISTORY PRIZE, THE AMERICAN HISTORY BOOK PRIZE Book Four of Robert A. Caro’s monumental The Years of Lyndon Johnson displays all the narrative energy and illuminating insight that led the Times of London to acclaim it as “one of the truly great political biographies of the modern age. A masterpiece.” The Passage of Power follows Lyndon Johnson through both the most frustrating and the most triumphant periods of his career—1958 to1964. It is a time that would see him trade the extraordinary power he had created for himself as Senate Majority Leader for what became the wretched powerlessness of a Vice President in an administration that disdained and distrusted him. Yet it was, as well, the time in which the presidency, the goal he had always pursued, would be thrust upon him in the moment it took an assassin’s bullet to reach its mark. By 1958, as Johnson began to maneuver for the presidency, he was known as one of the most brilliant politicians of his time, the greatest Senate Leader in our history. But the 1960 nomination would go to the young senator from Massachusetts, John F. Kennedy. Caro gives us an unparalleled account of the machinations behind both the nomination and Kennedy’s decision to offer Johnson the vice presidency, revealing the extent of Robert Kennedy’s efforts to force Johnson off the ticket. With the consummate skill of a master storyteller, he exposes the savage animosity between Johnson and Kennedy’s younger brother, portraying one of America’s great political feuds. Yet Robert Kennedy’s overt contempt for Johnson was only part of the burden of humiliation and isolation he bore as Vice President. With a singular understanding of Johnson’s heart and mind, Caro describes what it was like for this mighty politician to find himself altogether powerless in a world in which power is the crucial commodity. For the first time, in Caro’s breathtakingly vivid narrative, we see the Kennedy assassination through Lyndon Johnson’s eyes. We watch Johnson step into the presidency, inheriting a staff fiercely loyal to his slain predecessor; a Congress determined to retain its power over the executive branch; and a nation in shock and mourning. We see how within weeks—grasping the reins of the presidency with supreme mastery—he propels through Congress essential legislation that at the time of Kennedy’s death seemed hopelessly logjammed and seizes on a dormant Kennedy program to create the revolutionary War on Poverty. Caro makes clear how the political genius with which Johnson had ruled the Senate now enabled him to make the presidency wholly his own. This was without doubt Johnson’s finest hour, before his aspirations and accomplishments were overshadowed and eroded by the trap of Vietnam. In its exploration of this pivotal period in Johnson’s life—and in the life of the nation—The Passage of Power is not only the story of how he surmounted unprecedented obstacles in order to fulfill the highest purpose of the presidency but is, as well, a revelation of both the pragmatic potential in the presidency and what can be accomplished when the chief executive has the vision and determination to move beyond the pragmatic and initiate programs designed to transform a nation. It is an epic story told with a depth of detail possible only through the peerless research that forms the foundation of Robert Caro’s work, confirming Nicholas von Hoffman’s verdict that “Caro has changed the art of political biography.”