Biography & Autobiography : Political

American Presidents from MobileReference describes early life, political career, significant events, legislation, programs, appointments, personal life, and post-presidential career of all American Presidents. Audience. Audience: Intended for everyone interested in American History, including middle school, high school, undergraduate and graduate students. Illustrated with portraits of all presidents. Biography, including early life, political career, and post-presidential career. Concise description of major event during presidency including legislation, programs, and appointments. Search for the words or phrases. Navigate from Table of Contents or read page by page. Access the guide anytime, anywhere - at home, on the train, in the subway. Always have the guide available for a quick reference. Multi-Platform device capability (PDA, smartphone, PC). Add Bookmarks, text annotations and mark-ups. Annotations and drawings are also synchronized. Table of Contents. 1. George Washington (April 30, 1789 -March 3, 1797) Party: none, VP: John Adams (Federalist policies). 2. John Adams (March 4, 1797-March 3, 1801) Federalist, VP: Thomas Jefferson. 3. Thomas Jefferson (March 4, 1801-March 3, 1809) Democratic-Republican, VP: Aaron Burr, George Clinton. 4. James Madison (March 4, 1809-March 3, 1817) Democratic-Republican, VP: George Clinton[D], Elbridge Gerry[D]. 5. James Monroe (March 4, 1817-March 3, 1825) Democratic-Republican, VP: Daniel Tompkins. 6. John Quincy Adams (March 4, 1825-March 3, 1829) Democratic-Republican, VP: John Calhoun. 7. Andrew Jackson (March 4, 1829-March 3, 1837) Democrat, VP: John Calhoun[R], Martin Van Buren. 8. Martin Van Buren (March 4, 1837-March 3, 1841) Democrat, VP: Richard Johnson. 9. William Harrison (March 4, 1841-April 4, 1841[D]) Whig, VP: John Tyler. 10. John Tyler (April 4, 1841-March 3, 1845) Whig[W]. 11. James Polk (March 4, 1845-March 3, 1849) Democrat, VP: George Dallas. 12. Zachary Taylor (March 4, 1849-July 9, 1850[D]) Whig, VP: M more...

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A rare view of a childhood in a European ghetto. Anna Spector was born in 1905 in Korsun, a Ukrainian town on the Ros River, eighty miles south of Kiev. Held by Poland until 1768 and annexed by the Tsar in 1793 Korsun and its fluid ethnic population were characteristic of the Pale of Settlement in Eastern Europe: comprised of Ukrainians, Cossacks, Jews and other groups living uneasily together in relationships punctuated by violence. Anna’s father left Korsun in 1912 to immigrate to America, and Anna left in 1919, having lived through the Great War, the Bolshevik Revolution, and part of the ensuing civil war, as well as several episodes of more or less organized pogroms—deadly anti-Jewish riots begun by various invading military detachments during the Russian Civil War and joined by some of Korsun’s peasants. In the early 1990s Anna met Lawrence A. Coben, a medical doctor seeking information about the shtetls to recapture a sense of his own heritage. Anna had near-perfect recall of her daily life as a girl and young woman in the last days in one of those historic but doomed communities. Her rare account, the product of some 300 interviews, is valuable because most personal memoirs of ghetto life are written by men. Also, very often, Christian neighbors appear in ghetto accounts as a stolid peasant mass assembled on market days, as destructive mobs, or as an arrogant and distant collection of government officials and nobility. Anna’s story is exceptionally rich in a sense of the Korsun Christians as friends, neighbors, and individuals. Although the Jewish communities in Eastern Europe are now virtually gone, less than 100 years ago they counted a population of millions. The firsthand records we have from that lost world are therefore important, and this view from the underrecorded lives of women and the young is particularly welcome. Lawrence A. Coben, M.D., is Associate Professor Emeritus of Neurology at Washington University in Saint Louis. more...

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In 1954, reporter Uri Dan met a military commander named Ariel Sharon and followed him closely. Dan became Sharon's trusted advisor and a witness to the moments of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. This work, a combination of political history and biography, sheds light on the conflict in the Middle East and provides a portrait of Ariel Sharon. more...

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Retraces Richard Nixon's illustrious and ultimately self-destructive rise to power, from his early political career to his rise to the presidency, offering new evidence of his penchant for intrigue and profiteering. more...

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