PRESIDENTIAL
COURAGE
Nine
Brave Leaders and How They Changed America
1789-1989
By Michael Beschloss
summarized by
W. Antoniotti
8/18/16
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PRESIDENTIAL
COURAGE |
| Part 1 Building a Nation | Part 2 Guiding the World | |
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G. Washington
made voters unhappy
with the Jay Treaty and Taxes See Do You Want a Revolution? and The Revolution 1774-76 |
FDR
took an
unpopular stance
by planning for war but still reelected. See Great Depression was FDR first major problem then WW2 Safety Net Deficits like war deficits prove attractive |
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J. Adams avoided a Quasi-War with France
which cost him reelection.
See The Master of Monticello 1809 to the End and The Leader of the Opposition |
H. Truman made tough decisions like quickly
in the face of pressure from all sides. See HT becomes our first Cold War President |
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A. Jackson
took on eastern
bankers to serve
rural
America. See From a Constitution to Manifest Destiny |
JFK
continued to push school integration
despite potential political
opposition.
See JFK Avoids Vietnam, and 1973 Finally Brings Faster Track Civil Rights |
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A. Lincoln
required freeing the slaves
as a condition of
saving the Union. See Apocalypse To Civil War and Reconstruction A Divided Nation from the 1862 Battle of Antietam |
R.
Reagan hastened the end of the Cold War
with massive deficit spending. See RR Closes an Evil Empire and Federal Deficit increases used to hasten the fall of USSR a re still feared by many. |
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T. Roosevelt
took on corporate RR trusts
for consumers and farmers. See TR Continues Manifest Destiny and War With Spain mean Manifest Destiny Rides again. |
Other Stuff
U.S. Political Economy |
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1 From the 2007 first edition |
3. Editor's addition 4. Editor's Note: Washington's fears of political parties were avoided as US Undergoes the First Peaceful 1800Transfer of a Democratic System from Turning Points in American History |
