John Robert Greene, Author . Univ. Press of Kansas $25 (176p) ISBN 978-0-7006-1354-0
Drawing on papers deposited at the Ford library in addition to memoirs by and about his subject, historian Greene (The Presidency of George Bush
) delivers an affirmative account of the life of a popular and controversial First Lady. Despite the...
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John Robert Greene, Syracuse Univ., $45 (224p) ISBN 978-0-8156-3276-4; $19.95 trade paper ISBN 978-0-8156-3221-4
With a vexingly complicated start steeped in presidential history that lauds Eisenhower and dispels the "Kennedy Myth," Greene steamrollers into a fastidiously detailed but brisk names-and-places timeline of the Civil Rights movement, with the...
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John Robert Greene, Author University Press of Kansas $35 (250p) ISBN 978-0-7006-0993-2
Cazenovia College historian Greene's verdict on George Bush's presidency will surprise no one: Bush triumphed in foreign policy, but stumbled fatally in domestic affairs. Greene traces what he perceives as Bush's failures on the home front, starting
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John Robert Greene, Author, Warren F. Kimball, Foreword by Indiana University Press $34.95 (316p) ISBN 978-0-253-32637-9
This perceptive analysis of eight years of Republican leadership (1969-1977) seeks to explain why the ``Myth of the Omnipotent President,'' as Greene dubs it, came to an end. An associate professor of history and communications at Cazenovia College...
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