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Evaluating US Presidents

Volume 1: Washington to Lincoln 1789-1865

Bibliography

United States Presidents 1789-1865

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Ammon, Harry, James Monroe: The Quest for National Identity. Charlottesville, 1990.
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Bemis, Samuel Flagg, John Quincy Adams and the Foundations of American Foreign Policy. New York, 1949.
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Brands, H. W., Andrew Jackson: His Life and Times. New York, 2005.
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Bergeron, Paul H., The Presidency of James K. Polk. Lawrence, 1987.
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Bauer, K. Jack, Zachary Taylor: Soldier, Planter, Statesman of the Old Southwest. Baton Rouge, 1985.
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Rayback, Robert J., Millard Fillmore: Biography of a President. Buffalo, 1959.
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Gara, Larry, The Presidency of Franklin Pierce. Lawrence, 1991.
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Baker, Jean H., James Buchanan. New York, 2004.
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Beveridge, Albert J., Abraham Lincoln 1809-1858, 4 volumes. Boston, 1928.
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Fletcher, George P., Our Secret Constitution: How Lincoln Redefined American Democracy. Oxford, 2001.
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Tripp, C. A., The Intimate World of Abraham Lincoln. New York, 2005.
Wilson, Douglas L., Honor’s Voice: The Transformation of Abraham Lincoln. New York, 1998.
Wilson, Douglas L., Lincoln’s Sword: The Presidency and the Power of Words. New York, 2006.

Cooper, William J., Jefferson Davis, American. New York, 2000.
McPherson, James M., Embattled Rebel: Jefferson Davis as Commander in Chief. New York, 2014.
Rable, George C., The Confederate Republic: A Revolution Against Politics. Chapel Hill, 1994.

Blue and the Gray, The: The Story of the Civil War as Told by Participants ed. Henry Steele Commager, New York, 1982.
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Catton, Bruce, The Centennial History of the Civil War, Volume 3 Never Call Retreat. Garden City, 1965.
Catton, Bruce, U.S. Grant and the American Military Tradition. New York, 1954.
Causes of the Civil War, The ed. Edwin C. Rozwenc. Lexington, 1972.
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General

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Foreman, Grant, The Five Civilized Tribes. Norman, 1934.
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Zinn, Howard, A People’s History of the United States. New York, 1980.

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