Encyclopedia of Presidents
6 total works
Traces the life and political career of the statesman from Missouri who became president of the United States following the death of Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1945.
Lyndon B. Johnson, Thirty-Sixth President of the United States
by Jim Hargrove
Published 1 September 1987
Surveys the life of the Texas politician who became America's thirty-sixth president and faced great public controversy during the war in Vietnam.
Examines the life of the lawyer politician who became the eighth president of the United States and led the country through its first serious depression.
Traces the life of the tall red-headed Virginian, from his early education and involvement in the American Revolution to his activities as the nation's third president and last years at Monticello.
Traces the life of the frontier clerk, storekeeper, lawyer, politician, and Civil War President.
Recounts the life of the general who led Allied troops to victory in World War II and became thirty-fourth president of the United States.