Presidential Courage: Brave Leaders and How They Changed America 1789-1989 @ richardeward.com

Presidential Courage: Brave Leaders and How They Changed America 1789-1989
by Michael R. Beschloss
from Simon & Schuster

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• Avg. Customer Rating: 3.5 / 5.0

• Simple is good.
  This is an interesting review of some history. Some of it was in high school textbooks but long forgotten. The author includes details that probably weren't in the textbooks. One aspect that I really like is the author makes links between past and present, e.g. the grandson of a person in one administration turns up in the another president's administration.
  It is not dense history so a history-buff probably would find it too simple. But for most of us, it is a quick read (short paragraphs) that is... more info

• Wonderful book!
  I recommend this book be read by everybody in America-in order to learn more about some of our finest Presidents. I was educated on things that I had not learned before-FASCINATING!

• Unreadable & badly off-target much of the time
  How did Michael Beschloss get to be "America's Leading Presidential Historian?" I can only assume it is because he has a talent for getting himself on TV again & again...because it certainly isn't because of dreadful efforts such as this.
  Setting content aside for a moment --- how can any literate person regard this as well-written? It reads like a Power Point presentation, or more specifically, like research notes which were never revised into a coherent narrative. It's hard to have narrative at... more info

• Flawed Men Finding the Strength to Do Great Things
  Like the rest of us, our Presidents have been flawed people -- each with his own limitations, prejudices, and conflicts. And yet, through our history, at times these men have risen above their limitations to exert extraordinary leadership: grasping a moral imperative with uncommon clarity, and finding the strength and passion to use the powers of the office to follow that imperative despite great risk to their own political fortunes -- and, in some cases, to their very lives.
  "Presidential Courage"... more info

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