Facts About the Presidents: A Compilation of Biographical and Historical Information, Seventh Edition

Includes A Biographical Chapter On Each President, Plus A Statistical Section With Comparative Information On Such Areas As Religion, Family Histories, And Education. Biographical Data: George Washington -- John Adams -- Thomas Jefferson -- James Madison -- James Monroe -- John Quincy Adams -- Andrew Jackson -- Martin Van Buren -- William Henry Harrison -- John Tyler -- James Knox Polk -- Zachary Taylor -- Millard Fillmore -- Franklin Pierce -- James Buchanan -- Abraham Lincoln -- Andrew Johnson -- Ulysses Simpson Grant -- Rutherford Birchard Hayes -- James Abram Garfield -- Chester Alan Arthur -- Grover Cleveland -- Benjamin Harrison -- William Mckinley -- Theodore Roosevelt -- William Howard Taft -- Woodrow Wilson -- Warren Gamaliel Harding -- Calvin Coolidge -- Herbert Clark Hoover -- Franklin Delano Roosevelt -- Harry S. Truman -- Dwight David Eisenhower -- John Fitzgerald Kennedy -- Lyndon Baines Johnson -- Richard Milhous Nixon -- Gerald Rudolph Ford -- Jimmy Carter -- Ronald Wilson Reagan -- George Herbert Walker Bush -- William Jefferson Clinton -- George Walker Bush -- Comparative Data: Presidents: Chronology, Family History, And Personal Background -- Education And Career -- Residence -- Age And Physical Characteristics -- Death And Burial -- Commemoratives -- General Statistics -- Presidency: Elections -- Conventions -- Candidates -- Election Returns -- Office -- Executive Office -- Presidents And Their Vice Presidents. Joseph Nathan Kane ; Janet Podell & Steven Anzovin [editors]. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Machine generated contents note: Part 1 : OPERATION MICHAEL 1. Thunder in the West 3 2. The Great Attack March 21-24 14 3. "God Grant That It May Not Be Too Late" General Foch, March 26 "If They Do Not Break Us Now, They Will Break Us Later" Lord Milner, March 27 March 25-April 6 74 Part 2 : CRISIS 4. Red Dawn in the East January 4-March 6 125 5. "With Our Backs to the Wall " Haig April 6-22 144 6. "St. George for Englandl" April 22-May 15 187 7. Intervention I March i8-May 26 221 8. "The Yanks Are Coming" May 20-June 13 238 Part 3 : THE ROAD BACK 9. Intervention II June-July 17 297 10. The Turning Point July 310 11. Black Day August 1-27 351 Part 4 : THE HINGE OF FATE 12. The Red Terror July i6-September 385 13. "And We Won't Be Back Till It's Over Over There" August 27-October 5 405 Part 5 : WAR AND PEACE 14. "I Am Dealing in Human Lives-Not in Politics." Woodrow Witson October 1-26 463 15. The False Armistice October 26-November 7 511 16. The End of the Beginning November 8-11 551. For both general readers and researchers, this popular reference, cited in Books for College Libraries, 3d ed., presents information current as of June 2001. (The jacket shows the subtitle as From George Washington to George W. Bush; the title page shows A Compilation of Biographical and Historical Information.) It presents an overview of the US executive office and data concerning the biographical backgrounds and terms of the 42 presidents to date. Also detailed are their elections, inaugurations, congressional sessions, Vice Presidents, Supreme Court and cabinet appointments, and administration highlights. A portrait/photograph and a list of books for further reading are provided for each (so far) man. The previous edition was published in 1993. Kane, an expert in the field of American history was joined by editors Steven Anzovin and Janet Podell for this edition