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Books in United States Presidents *2017 series

  • Zachary Taylor: 12th President of the United States

    Heidi M D Elston

    Library Binding (Abdo Publishing Company, Jan. 1, 2009)
    The United States president preserves, protects, and defends the U.S. Constitution. Each president's term influences events in America and around the world for years to come. This biography introduces young readers to the life of Zachary Taylor, beginning with his childhood in Orange County, Virginia. Information about Taylor's early career as a soldier is discussed. In addition, his family and personal life is highlighted. Easy-to-read text details Harrison's military service during the War of 1812, the Black Hawk War of 1832, and the Mexican War. Finally, students will explore key events from Whig president Taylor's administration, including the Clayton-Bulwer Treaty and the Compromise of 1850. Beautiful graphics showcase the primary source documents and photographs. A timeline, fast facts, and sidebars help put essential information at students' fingertips. In addition, a quick-reference chart provides easy access to facts about every U.S. president. Checkerboard Library is an imprint of ABDO Publishing Company.
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  • Warren G. Harding: 29th President of the United States

    Heidi M D Elston

    Library Binding (Abdo Publishing Company, Jan. 1, 2009)
    The United States president preserves, protects, and defends the U.S. Constitution. Each president's term influences events in America and around the world for years to come. This biography introduces young readers to the life of Warren G. Harding, beginning with his childhood in Blooming Grove, Ohio. Information about Harding's education at Ohio Central College and his early career as a newspaper publisher is discussed. In addition, his family and personal life is highlighted. Easy-to-read text details Harding's political career as an Ohio state senator, lieutenant governor of Ohio, and a U.S. senator. Finally, students will explore key events from Republican president Harding's administration, including the Fordney-McCumber Act of 1922, the Washington Conference on Limitation of Naval Armaments, and the Teapot Dome scandal. Beautiful graphics showcase the primary source documents and photographs. A timeline, fast facts, and sidebars help put essential information at students' fingertips. In addition, a quick-reference chart provides easy access to facts about every U.S. president. Checkerboard Library is an imprint of ABDO Publishing Company.
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  • John Quincy Adams

    Jane C. Walker

    Library Binding (Enslow Pub Inc, Aug. 1, 2000)
    Examines the life of the sixth president of the United States, including his childhood, marriage, and career as a debater, writer, and politician.
  • Millard Fillmore: 13th President of the United States

    Heidi M D Elston

    Library Binding (Abdo Publishing Company, Jan. 1, 2009)
    The United States president preserves, protects, and defends the U.S. Constitution. Each president's term influences events in America and around the world for years to come. This biography introduces young readers to the life of Millard Fillmore, beginning with his childhood in Cayuga County, New York. Information about Fillmore's early career as a lawyer is discussed. In addition, his family and personal life, as well as his retirement years in New York as a representative of the Buffalo Board of Trade, the first chancellor of the University of Buffalo, founder and president of the Buffalo Historical Society, and founder of the Buffalo Club is highlighted. Easy-to-read text details Fillmore's political career as a New York legislator, a U.S. congressman, chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, New York state comptroller, and vice president. Finally, students will explore key events from Whig president Fillmore's administration, including the Compromise of 1850, which included the Fugitive Slave Act. Beautiful graphics showcase the primary source documents and photographs. A timeline, fast facts, and sidebars help put essential information at students' fingertips. In addition, a quick-reference chart provides easy access to facts about every U.S. president. Checkerboard Library is an imprint of ABDO Publishing Company.
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  • Franklin Pierce: 14th President of the United States

    Breann Rumsch

    Library Binding (Abdo Publishing Company, Jan. 1, 2009)
    The United States president preserves, protects, and defends the U.S. Constitution. Each president's term influences events in America and around the world for years to come. This biography introduces young readers to the life of Franklin Pierce beginning with his childhood in Hillsborough, New Hampshire. Information about Pierce's education at Bowdoin College and his early career as a lawyer is discussed. In addition, his family and personal life, as well as his retirement years are highlighted. Easy-to-read text details Pierce's military service during the Mexican War and his political career as a member of the New Hampshire state legislature, the U.S. House of Representatives, and the U.S. Senate, where he became chairman of the Committee on Pensions. Finally, students will explore key events from Democratic president Pierce's administration, including the Gadsden Purchase, the Treaty of Kanagawa, the writing of the Ostend Manifesto, as well as the Kansas-Nebraska Act and Bleeding Kansas. Beautiful graphics showcase the primary source documents and photographs. A timeline, fast facts, and sidebars help put essential information at students' fingertips. In addition, a quick-reference chart provides easy access to facts about every U.S. president. Checkerboard Library is an imprint of ABDO Publishing Company.
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  • William Taft: 27th President of the United States

    Breann Rumsch

    Library Binding (Abdo Publishing Company, Jan. 1, 2009)
    The United States president preserves, protects, and defends the U.S. Constitution. Each president's term influences events in America and around the world for years to come. This biography introduces young readers to the life of William Taft, beginning with his childhood in Cincinnati, Ohio. Information about Taft's education at Yale University and his early career as a lawyer, judge, and dean of the Cincinnati Law School is discussed. In addition, his family and personal life, as well as his retirement years are highlighted. Easy-to-read text details Taft's political career as U.S. solicitor general under President Benjamin Harrison, governor of the Philippines under President William McKinley, secretary of war under President Theodore Roosevelt, and ultimately chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. Finally, students will explore key events from Republican president Taft's administration, including the signing of the Payne-Aldrich Tariff Act, the formation of the Tariff Board, and the establishment of the U.S. Children's Bureau. Beautiful graphics showcase the primary source documents and photographs. A timeline, fast facts, and sidebars help put essential information at students' fingertips. In addition, a quick-reference chart provides easy access to facts about every U.S. president. Checkerboard Library is an imprint of ABDO Publishing Company.
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  • John F. Kennedy

    Karen Bornemann Spies

    Library Binding (Enslow Pub Inc, Dec. 1, 1999)
    Examines the military service, family life, political career, assassination, and legacy of the thirty-fifth president of the United States
  • George H. W. Bush: Our 41st President

    Sandra Francis

    Library Binding (Child's World, Aug. 1, 2020)
    A thorough, illustrated biography discussing the childhood, career, family, and term of George Herbert Walker Bush, forty-first president of the United States. Includes a table of contents, time line, phonetic glossary, sources for further research, an index, and detailed captions and sidebars to aid in comprehension.
  • James Buchanan: 15th President of the United States

    Megan M Gunderson

    Library Binding (Abdo Publishing Company, Jan. 1, 2009)
    The United States president preserves, protects, and defends the U.S. Constitution. Each president's term influences events in America and around the world for years to come. This biography introduces young readers to the life of James Buchanan, beginning with his childhood in Cove Gap and Mercersburg, Pennsylvania. Information about Buchanan's education at Dickinson College and his early career as a lawyer is discussed. In addition, his family and personal life, as well as his retirement years at Wheatland, during which he supported the Union during the American Civil War and published Mr. Buchanan's Administration on the Eve of the Rebellion, are highlighted. Easy-to-read text details Buchanan's military service during the War of 1812 and his political career in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives, the U.S. House of Representatives, where he served on the House Committee on the Judiciary, as minister to Russia under President Andrew Jackson, in the U.S. Senate, where he served on the Committee on Foreign Relations, as secretary of state under President James K. Polk, during which he negotiated with England over the Oregon territory, tried to prevent the Mexican War, and supported the Wilmot Proviso and the Compromise of 1850, and as minister to Great Britain under President Franklin Pierce, during which he signed the Ostend Manifesto. Finally, students will explore key events from Democratic president Buchanan's administration, including the Dred Scott case, Bleeding Kansas and the Lecompton Constitution, John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry, and the secession of seven Southern states prior to the beginning of the American Civil War. Beautiful graphics showcase the primary source documents and photographs. A timeline, fast facts, and sidebars help put essential information at students' fingertips. In addition, a quick-reference chart provides easy access to facts about every U.S. president. Checkerboard Library is an imprint of ABDO Publishing Company.
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  • John Quincy Adams: 6th President of the United States

    Heidi M D Elston

    Library Binding (Abdo Publishing Company, Jan. 1, 2009)
    The United States president preserves, protects, and defends the U.S. Constitution. Each president's term influences events in America and around the world for years to come. This biography introduces young readers to the life of John Quincy Adams, beginning with his childhood in Quincy, Massachusetts. Information about Adams's education at Harvard College and his early career as a lawyer is discussed. In addition, his family and personal life, as well as his retirement years as a congressman is highlighted. Easy-to-read text details Adams's childhood during the American Revolution and his political career as a Massachusetts state senator, secretary of state, and minister to the Netherlands, Prussia, Russia and Great Britain. Finally, students will explore key events from Democratic-Republican president Adams's administration, including extending the Cumberland Road into Ohio. Beautiful graphics showcase the primary source documents and photographs. A timeline, fast facts, and sidebars help put essential information at students' fingertips. In addition, a quick-reference chart provides easy access to facts about every U.S. president. Checkerboard Library is an imprint of ABDO Publishing Company.
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  • Harry S. Truman: 33rd President of the United States

    Heidi M D Elston

    Library Binding (Abdo Publishing Company, Jan. 1, 2009)
    The United States president preserves, protects, and defends the U.S. Constitution. Each president's term influences events in America and around the world for years to come. This biography introduces young readers to the life of Harry S. Truman, beginning with his childhood in Lamar, Missouri. Information about Truman's education at the Kansas City Law School and his early career as a businessman is discussed. In addition, his family and personal life, as well as his retirement years in Independence, Missouri, are highlighted. Easy-to-read text details Truman's military service during World War I and his political career as a Jackson County judge, presiding judge of the Jackson County Court, a U.S. senator, and vice president. Finally, students will explore key events from Democratic president Truman's administration, including dropping atomic bombs on Hiroshima, Japan, and Nagasaki, Japan, the formation of the United Nations and NATO, the beginning of the Cold War, the Truman Doctrine, the Marshall Plan, the Korean War, and passage of the Twenty-second Amendment, the Taft-Hartley Act, and the Presidential Succession Act. Beautiful graphics showcase the primary source documents and photographs. A timeline, fast facts, and sidebars help put essential information at students' fingertips. In addition, a quick-reference chart provides easy access to facts about every U.S. president. Checkerboard Library is an imprint of ABDO Publishing Company.
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  • Ulysses S. Grant: 18th President of the United States

    Breann Rumsch

    Library Binding (Abdo Publishing Company, Jan. 1, 2009)
    The United States president preserves, protects, and defends the U.S. Constitution. Each president's term influences events in America and around the world for years to come. This biography introduces young readers to the life of Ulysses S. Grant, beginning with his childhood in Point Pleasant and Georgetown, Ohio. Information about Grant's education at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point and his early career with the army is discussed. In addition, his family and personal life, as well as his retirement years traveling the world and writing Personal Memoirs, is highlighted. Easy-to-read text details Grant's military service during the Mexican War and the American Civil War. Finally, students will explore key events from Republican president Grant's administration, including several scandals, as well as the passage of the Fifteenth Amendment and the Specie Resumption Act. Beautiful graphics showcase the primary source documents and photographs. A timeline, fast facts, and sidebars help put essential information at students' fingertips. In addition, a quick-reference chart provides easy access to facts about every U.S. president. Checkerboard Library is an imprint of ABDO Publishing Company.
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