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  Title

  Elusive victories : the American presidency at war

  Author

  Polsky, Andrew Joseph.  

  Publisher:

  Oxford University Press,

  Pub date:

  c2012.

  Pages:

  vii, 445 p., [12] p. of plates :

  ISBN:

  9780199860937

  Item info:

  1 copy available at Sugar Grove Campus --Todd Library.
  

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    Sugar Grove Campus --Todd Library	Copies	Material	Location	Map
    JK558 .P65 2012	1	Book	Available, On shelf

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  ISBN:

  9780199860937 (alk. paper)

  ISBN:

  0199860939 (alk. paper)

  Personal Author:

  Polsky, Andrew Joseph.

  Title:

  Elusive victories : the American presidency at war / Andrew J. Polsky.

  Publication info:

  Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, c2012.

  Physical description:

  vii, 445 p., [12] p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.

  Contents:

  Introduction -- Lincoln's shadow -- Waging war to transform the world: Woodrow Wilson -- Freedom of action: Franklin Roosevelt -- Staying the course: Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon -- The perils of optimism: George W. Bush -- Inheriting a bad hand: Barack Obama -- Conclusion: past and future.

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  Subject term:

  Presidents--United States--History.

  Subject term:

  War and emergency powers--United States--History.

  Subject term:

  War and emergency powers--United States--Case studies.

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