The People's Choice, from Washington to Harding: A Study in DemocracyThis work discusses how politics, democracy, and the presidency evolved in the United States from 1789 to 1923. |
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... finally routing the Mexicans and adding the finishing touch to his own reputation . Within a month , a Whig Conven- tion at Iowa had nominated him for the Presidency . Another future American President established his national ...
... finally routing the Mexicans and adding the finishing touch to his own reputation . Within a month , a Whig Conven- tion at Iowa had nominated him for the Presidency . Another future American President established his national ...
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... finally , in April , 1898 , she capitulated . She revoked the concentration policy , she granted an armistice , and the American Minister in Madrid cabled to McKinley that if he would refrain from humiliating Spain , he could obtain a ...
... finally , in April , 1898 , she capitulated . She revoked the concentration policy , she granted an armistice , and the American Minister in Madrid cabled to McKinley that if he would refrain from humiliating Spain , he could obtain a ...
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... finally brought into the war . That a man who was not a pacifist , who was not frightened , who led a nation that had shown itself as easily roused to belligerency as any nation in history — that such a man could show the patience that ...
... finally brought into the war . That a man who was not a pacifist , who was not frightened , who led a nation that had shown itself as easily roused to belligerency as any nation in history — that such a man could show the patience that ...
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WASHINGTON | 3 |
JOHN ADAMS AND JEFFERSON | 32 |
MADISON MONROE AND JOHN QUINCY ADAMS | 72 |
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