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Papers On Presidential Studies (U.S.)
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Fawn M. Brodie's 'Thomas Jefferson : An Intimate History'
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A 5 page analysis of 'Thomas Jefferson: an Intimate History' by Fawn M. Brodie. It has always seemed contradictory that the man who wrote that "all men are created equal" was a slave owner, and that it was rumored he had a long-standing sexual relationship with one of his black slaves. Brodie's work does an admirable job of reconciling these discrepancies as she argues that Jefferson's actions made sense in the context of his own time and were consistent with his own philosophy. No additional sources cited.
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FDR And Hoover: Comparison
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17 pages in length. Stifled by the economic conditions of the Crash of 1929, Herbert Hoover's presidential career was off to a bad start and only became progressively worse over the next few years. Had he lived in another time, his political prowess and idealistic policies may have worked infinitely better; however, he immersed himself amidst a quagmire of one bad policy move after another until the country reached one of its lowest economic points of all time. Franklin Delano Roosevelt followed behind Hoover in the presidential position and promised to clean up the political, economic and social disarray Hoover had left behind, a tremendous challenge he met head on and one that would ultimately establish him as the greatest leader of democracy, the greatest champion of social progress in the 20th century. Bibliography lists 11 sources.
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FDR's "Splendid Deception" and its Motivations
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A 5 page paper
discussing FDR's efforts in hiding his paralysis from the American public in relation to Smith's
views of public and private behavior. Critics of laissez-faire economics claim that the stance
is hard and uncaring, that government needs to do more for the people it governs. Adam
Smith's characterizations of market behavior being motivated by self-interest is seen to
preclude any participation in warmth or altruism. Smith himself had no difficulty in
reconciling these motivations, and neither did Franklin D. Roosevelt. Bibliography lists 4
sources.
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FDR's "Splendid Deception" and its Motivations
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A 6 page paper
discussing FDR's efforts in hiding his paralysis from the American public in relation to
Charles Smith's views of public and private behavior argued in Critique of Sociological
Reasoning. Smith holds that all human behavior, including that resulting from the experience
of disability, can be categorized into three levels. The experience of Franklin D. Roosevelt is
used here to illustrate those levels and then proclaim that while FDR operated from all three
levels, it was Level 3, the most altruistic, that could most frequently describe his behavior as
related to his disability. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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FDR: Disability And The Presidency
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15 pages in length. There are myriad personal and professional assets that lend themselves to a successful president; among them are integrity, sound judgment, compassion and executive ability. Conspicuously absent from the long list of characteristics is the element of physical disability, an absence one can surmise exists because it has absolutely nothing to do with the competency to lead a country. However, Franklin Delano Roosevelt understood the nature of his lameness and what it could very well mean for his political career if he did not take great strides to minimize the obvious, inasmuch as the nation was not progressive enough at this point in time to accept a president whose physical health was anything less than one-hundred percent – even if it had absolutely no impact upon his leadership prowess. Bibliography lists 13 sources.
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First Ladies From Eleanor Roosevelt to Laura Bush
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This 4 page paper looks at the role of the first lady throughout the time period. Each and every first lady to serve between F.D.R. and the sitting president Bush is examined. How their roles differ, but stay the same, is discussed. Bibliography lists 8 sources.
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First Ladies Of The 20th Century
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11 pages in length. Twentieth century first ladies have done much to enhance to nation's appeal. While some were relatively absent from the political scene due to illness or quiet demeanor, others stepped forward into the limelight with a fierce desire to incur change. From Ida Saxton McKinley to Hillary Rodham Clinton, America's first ladies of the twentieth century have been instrumental in forging ahead the national philosophy of democracy. Bibliography lists 10 sources.
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FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC POLICIES OF FORMER UNITED STATES PRESIDENTS
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This 3 page paper discusses the presidential terms of Reagan, Bush and Clinton, particularly their domestic and foreign policies. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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Frances FitzGerald’s “Way Out There in the Blue: Reagan, Star Wars and the End of the Cold War”
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A 7 page review of FitzGerald’s 2000 book, which analyzes President Ronald Reagan’s controversial defense policy. No additional sources are used.
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Franklin Pierce, America's 14th President
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An 11 page paper discussing the
administration and background of the 14th President. Franklin Pierce was not a bad president,
but neither was he an exceptionally good one. He set off to plot a course for the country that
he believed would be beneficial, but the expansion to which Pierce was dedicated succeeded
only in inflaming calls for war. Though he believed he was taking the nation forward, in reality
he was taking it forward into civil war. His personal life was tragic, and it appears he chose
not to see the tragedy of the Civil War toward which his policies took the country. Most
personal details are from the 1852 account of friend Nathaniel Hawthorne. Bibliography lists 9
sources.
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Franklin Roosevelt: An American Hero
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5 pages. This interesting paper looks at Franklin D. Roosevelt and the roles he played both in devising the New Deal and his strategies after World War II. It is the purpose of this paper to show that FDR became an American hero more because of his strategies of World War II than because of what he did with his New Deal. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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