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Ambition, Pragmatism, and Party

A Political Biography of Gerald R. Ford

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Ambition, Pragmatism, and Party

Von: Scott Kaufman
Gesprochen von: Robertson Dean
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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 38th president. But Gerald Ford's (1913-2006) life and career in and out of Washington spanned nearly the entire 20th century.

Ambition, Pragmatism, and Party captures for the first time the full scope of Ford's long and remarkable political life. The man who emerges is keenly ambitious, determined to climb the political ladder in Washington, and loyal to his party but not a political ideologue.

Drawing on interviews with family and congressional and administrative officials, presidential historian Scott Kaufman traces Ford's path from a Depression-era childhood through service in World War II to entry into Congress shortly after the Cold War began. He delves deeply into the workings of Congress and legislative-executive relations, offering insight into Ford's role as the House minority leader in a time of conservative insurgency in the Republican Party.

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The book covers Ford's entire life, with a decent amount detail given the length of the book. The most interesting part of the book, his presidency, however runs through his presidency quite quickly.

The book is for the most part balanced, but in the penultimate chapter (I think) the author attacks the modern GOP in ways that are not necessary.

All in all it's a good but not great biography.

Decent biography

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