Best of
Presidents

1985

FDR's Splendid Deception: The Moving Story of Roosevelt's Massive Disability - and the Intense Efforts to Conceal It from the Public


Hugh Gregory Gallagher - 1985
    It is an intensely personal view of FDR. It traces his developments from the early years, his battle with polio, his fight for rehabilitation, his paralysis and his need to hide it, both in public and in private as well as the impact the paralysis and its cover-up had on his political career, his personality, and his relations with others. Now complete with a detailed account of the FDR Memorial and the struggle by disability advocates to have FDR depicted as he was in his wheelchair. Must reading for everyone interested in presidential history, disability history, and modern American history. A book not to be missed.

Drawn and Quartered


Paul Conrad - 1985
    176 pages, 245 b&w line drawings/cartoons by a master. Beautifully printed on nice stock. Here is another winner from one of the best political cartoonists we've ever had. Paul Conrad won numerous Pulitzer Prizes, and had the distinction of being named on Nixon's infamous enemies list in 1973 and 5 years later occupied the Richard M. Nixon Chair at Whittier College. This title is arranged in 8 sections, dealing with everything from gun control to Watergate to Reagan's miscues. Each cartoon is accompanied by Conrad's own one-line caption. There is also a very informed, in-depth interview with the man himself at the end of the volume.

Brother Truman: The Masonic Life and Philosophy of Harry S. Truman


Allen E. Roberts - 1985
    It is the story of the human Harry S. Truman - a man with a philosophy anyone can emulate; a man who deeply loved his family, his country, and his fellow man; a man who refused to prostitute the title of President of the United States. Truman was the George Washington of the Twentieth Century. In Brother Truman you will find a man who considered others before himself; who felt strongly; who believed in and fought for his country and its citizens. Harry S. Truman was the right man in the right place on many occasions, especially during the trying days preceding during and following World War II. Few men, if any, could have so successfully carried the United States from the hells of war through the problems of peace. Within these pages will be found the Harry Trueman saved much of the world from despotism. Through his vision the starving in war-torn Europe were fed and the naked clothed. Because of his actions, ravaged industry, cities and countries were rebuilt, and an international forum was established which gave the world the prospects for no more global wars. Through his decisiveness he stopped the enemies of freedom on many fronts. Over the years more and more of Harry Truman's former critics have come to realize he was far more often right than wrong. Many have publicly apologized for their past criticism. Others have wished his successors have been as strong and unselfish. --- from book's dustjacket

Trump: The Saga of America's Most Powerful Real Estate Baron


Jerome Tuccille - 1985
    It is a biography of Donald J. Trump, one of America's great real estate barons.