Prosperity, Peace and Respect: How Presidents Manage the People'S AgendaElizabeth Warren is a retired college professor of Political Science who continues to find the study of government exciting. of particular interest today are the changes that are occurring in American society and their impact on our government's policies. Warren took her graduate work fifteen years after receiving her B. A. degree in History from Bryn Mawr College. She received her Master's degree from the University of Kansas and concluded her work for the doctorate in Political Science at the University of Nebraska. She also went into active politics in local government, serving as a Trustee and then Mayor of the Village of Glencoe, Illinois, and a suburb of Chicago. She has published books on subjects as disparate as the impact of the Gautreaux v Chicago Housing Authority court decision and the relationships between religion and politics. She also wrote a biography of a 19th Century Quaker who was a leader in the development of the Society of Friends in the Midwest. Warren's husband was a Sears executive, and she has four grown daughters. |
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THOMAS WOODROW WILSON 19131921 | 32 |
THE PROGRESSIVES | 43 |
WARREN G HARDING 19211923 | 49 |
LYNDON BAINES JOHNSON19631969 | 121 |
RICHARD MILHOUS NIXON19691974 | 131 |
GERALD R FORD19741977 | 147 |
JAMES EARL CARTER JR19771981 | 149 |
RONALD WILSON REAGAN19811989 | 155 |
THE ECONOMY IN 2000 | 166 |
GEORGE HERBERT WALKER BUSH19891993 | 172 |
WILLIAM JEFFERSON CLINTON19932001 | 180 |
JOHN CALVIN COOLIDGE 19231929 | 53 |
HERBERT CLARK HOOVER 19291933 | 56 |
FRANKLIN DELANO ROOSEVELT19331945 | 68 |
HARRY S TRUMAN19451953 | 83 |
FEAR OF COMMUNISM | 95 |
DWIGHT DAVID EISENHOWER19531961 | 99 |
THE ECONOMY IN MIDCENTURY | 110 |
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY19611963 | 114 |
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