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Chapter Overview
Chapter 1: AudiobookHub Recommendation
Chapter 2: Thomas Jefferson wielded presidential authority to keep the United States out of war.
Chapter 3: Against his instincts, James Madison was ultimately pushed into waging the War of 1812.
Chapter 4: James Polk was intent on waging a war for territorial expansion.
Chapter 5: To pursue a just war, Abraham Lincoln infringed upon some civil liberties.
Chapter 6: The trigger that sparked the Spanish-American War was likely a misinterpretation.
Chapter 7: Woodrow Wilson misled Americans by suggesting he could keep them all out of World War I.
Chapter 8: President Franklin D. Roosevelt was a strong wartime leader yet made some deeply shameful choices.
Chapter 9: President Truman proved insufficiently strong in effectively confronting North Korea.
Chapter 10: Lyndon Johnson misled the public and Congress to escalate the Vietnam War.
Chapter 11: Presidents have persistently forsaken the Founding Fathers’ ideals, and used their authority to wage war.
Description
Presidents of War (2018) is a panoramic study of eight US presidents and the conflicts into which they led their country. Detailing each POTUS’ motivations for war, their decisions once hostilities began, and the mood of the press and public at home, these absorbing portraits of wartime leaders look at American history on the grandest of scales – from the War of 1812 to Vietnam.
Who Should Listen
- Americans wanting to understand their past leaders
- Foreigners whose knowledge of American history is limited to the twentieth century
- Future presidents trying to avoid the mistakes of their predecessors