Ronald Wilson Reagan was an American politician and actor who served as the 40th president of the United States from 1981 to 1989. A member of the Republican Party,his presidency constituted the Reagan era,and he is considered one of the most prominent conservative figures in American history.
The 1988 United States presidential election was the 51st quadrennial presidential election held on Tuesday,November 8,1988. Incumbent Republican Vice President George H. W. Bush defeated the Democratic Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis.
The 1980 United States presidential election was the 49th quadrennial presidential election,held on November 4,1980. The Republican nominee,former California governor Ronald Reagan,defeated incumbent Democratic President Jimmy Carter in a landslide victory.
Rasul v. Bush,542 U.S. 466 (2004),was a landmark decision of the United States Supreme Court in which the Court held that foreign nationals held in the Guantanamo Bay detention camp could petition federal courts for writs of habeas corpus to review the legality of their detention. The Court's 6–3 judgment on June 28,2004,reversed a D.C. Circuit decision which had held that the judiciary has no jurisdiction to hear any petitions from foreign nationals held in Guantanamo Bay.
Richard Gordon Darman was an American businessman and government official who served in senior positions during the presidencies of Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush.
In political studies,surveys have been conducted in order to construct historical rankings of the success of the presidents of the United States. Ranking systems are usually based on surveys of academic historians and political scientists or popular opinion. The scholarly rankings focus on presidential achievements,leadership qualities,failures and faults. Popular-opinion polls typically focus on recent or well-known presidents.
This bibliography of George W. Bush is a list of published works,both books and films,about George W. Bush,the 43rd president of the United States.
Cold War liberal is a term that was used in the United States during the Cold War,which began after the end of World War II. The term was used to describe liberal politicians and labor union leaders who supported democracy and equality. They supported the growth of labor unions,the civil rights movement,and the war on poverty and simultaneously opposing totalitarianism commonly seen under Communist rule at the time. Cold War liberals supported efforts of containment,such as diplomat George F. Kennan and U.S. president Harry S. Truman during the post-World War II era,towards Soviet Communism.
The bibliography of Ronald Reagan includes numerous books and articles about Ronald Reagan. According to J. David Woodard,a political science professor,more than 11,000 books on Reagan have been published.
This bibliography of Richard Nixon includes publications by Richard Nixon,the 37th president of the United States,and books and scholarly articles about him and his policies.
Books about and authored by Jimmy Carter,the 39th president of the United States (1977–1981).
Barbara Ann Perry is a presidency and U.S. Supreme Court expert,as well as a biographer of the Kennedys. She is also the Gerald L. Baliles Professor and Director of Presidential Studies at the University of Virginia's Miller Center,where she co-chairs the Presidential Oral History Program. As an oral historian,Perry has conducted more than 100 interviews for the George H. W. Bush and George W. Bush Presidential Oral History Projects,researched the President Clinton Project interviews,and directed the Edward Kennedy Oral History Project.
The Reagan era or the Age of Reagan is a periodization of recent American history used by historians and political observers to emphasize that the conservative "Reagan Revolution" led by President Ronald Reagan in domestic and foreign policy had a lasting impact. It overlaps with what political scientists call the Sixth Party System. Definitions of the Reagan era universally include the 1980s,while more extensive definitions may also include the late 1970s,the 1990s,and even the 2000s. In his 2008 book,The Age of Reagan:A History,1974–2008,historian and journalist Sean Wilentz argues that Reagan dominated this stretch of American history in the same way that Franklin D. Roosevelt and his New Deal legacy dominated the four decades that preceded it.
The Alfred M. Landon Lecture Series is a series of speeches on current public affairs,which is organized and hosted by Kansas State University,in Manhattan,Kansas,United States. It is named after Kansas politician Alf Landon,former Governor of Kansas and Republican presidential candidate. The first lecture in the series was given by Landon on December 13,1966.
This bibliography of John F. Kennedy is a list of published works about John F. Kennedy,the 35th president of the United States.
Ill-Advised:Presidential Health and Public Trust is a 1992 book by historian Robert Hugh Ferrell examining politically motivated cover-ups of serious medical issues afflicting U.S. presidents while they were in office. Although Dwight Eisenhower is the main focus of the book,it covers the presidency for a century,from Grover Cleveland's mouth cancer in 1893 to the health of George H. W. Bush,then-current president when the book was first published. All of these instances,Ferrell argues,raised serious questions about the fitness of each president to hold office,as well as whether the presidents and their physicians violated the public trust in keeping the incidents secret.
The following is a list of works about the spouses of presidents of the United States. While this list is mainly about presidential spouses,administrations with a bachelor or widowed president have a section on the individual that filled the role of First Lady. The list includes books and journal articles written in English after c. 1900 as well as primary sources written by the individual themselves.
The presidential transition of George H. W. Bush began when then-Vice President Bush won the United States 1988 United States presidential election,becoming the president-elect,and ended when Bush was inaugurated at noon EST on January 20,1989.
