Ambition, Pragmatism, and Party: A Political Biography of Gerald R. Ford

by Scott Kaufman

Book Overview

Within eight turbulent months in 1974 Gerald Ford went from the United States House of Representatives, where he was the minority leader, to the White House as the country's first and only unelected president. His unprecedented rise to power, after Richard Nixon's equally unprecedented fall, has garnered the lion's share of scholarly attention devoted to America's thirty-eighth president. But Gerald Ford's (1913-2006) life and career in and out...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0700625003
• ISBN13: 9780700625000
• Release Date: November 2017
• Publisher: University Press of Kansas
• Length: 448 Pages
• Weight: 1.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.3" x 9.1"