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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Kaufman, Scott (1969-....)
Titre(s) : Ambition, pragmatism, and party [Texte imprimé] : a political biography of Gerald R. Ford / Scott Kaufman
Publication : Lawrence (Kans.) : University Press of Kansas, copyright 2017
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (XIX-443 p.) : ill. ; 24 cm
Note(s) : Notes bibliogr. p. 351-411. Bibliogr. p. 413-426. Index
Within eight turbulent months in 1974 Gerald Ford went from the United States House
of Representatives, where he was the minority leader, to the White House as the country's
first and only unelected president. His unprecedented rise to power, after Richard
Nixon's equally unprecedented fall, has garnered the lion's share of scholarly attention
devoted to America's thirty-eighth president. But Gerald Ford's (1913-2006) life and
career in and out of Washington spanned nearly the entire twentieth century. Ambition,
Pragmatism, and Party captures for the first time the full scope of Ford's long and
remarkable political life. The man who emerges from these pages is keenly ambitious,
determined to climb the political ladder in Washington, and loyal to his party but
not a political ideologue. Drawing on interviews with family and congressional and
administrative officials, presidential historian Scott Kaufman traces Ford's path
from a Depression-era childhood through service in World War II to entry into Congress
shortly after the Cold War began. He delves deeply into the workings of Congress and
legislative-executive relations, offering insight into Ford's role as the House minority
leader in a time of conservative insurgency in the Republican Party. Kaufman's account
of the Ford presidency provides a new perspective on how human rights figured in the
making of U.S. foreign policy in the Cold War era, and how environmental issues figured
in the making of domestic policy. It also presents a close look at the 1976 presidential
election--emphasizing the significance of image in that contest--and extensive coverage
of Ford's post-presidency. In sum, Ambition, Pragmatism, and Party is the most comprehensive
political biography of Gerald Ford and will become the definitive resource on the
thirty-eighth president of the United States
Sujet(s) : Ford, Gerald R. (1913-2006)
Politique et gouvernement -- États-Unis -- 1945-1989
Genre ou forme : Biographie
Indice(s) Dewey :
973.925 092 (23e éd.) = Histoire - États-Unis - 1974-1977 - Biographie
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780700625000 (rel.)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb466419586
Notice n° :
FRBNF46641958
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
Table des matières : A Ford, not a King ; Climbing the ladder of power ; A step away ; High expectations
unrealized ; Not speaker, but president ; Honeymoon and hardship ; Confronting
crises ; Image and the election ; Politics, money, and the post-presidency ; Conclusion.
