![]() We come to understand how these Presidents were able to withstand the pressures of war-both physically and emotionally-or were broken by them. From James Madison and the War of 1812 to recent times, we see them struggling with Congress, the courts, the press, their own advisors and antiwar protesters seeking comfort from their spouses, families and friends and dropping to their knees in prayer. It brings us into the room as they make the most difficult decisions that face any President, at times sending hundreds of thousands of American men and women to their deaths. Ten years in the research and writing, Presidents of Waris a fresh, magisterial, intimate look at a procession of American leaders as they took the nation into conflict and mobilized their country for victory. Summary "From a preeminent presidential historian comes a groundbreaking and often surprising saga of America's wartime chief executives. ![]()
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