Presidential Ambition: How the Presidents Gained Power, Kept Power, and Got Things Done (1999)

Format: Hardcover

ISBN: 006018373X

Condition: Very Good 

There is a price tag on the front of the dust jacket, and the book has a slight amount of shelf wear.

Book Description:

Shenkman reveals that it is not just recent presidents who have been ambitious - and at times frighteningly overambitious, willing to sacrifice their health, family, loyalty, and values as they sought to overcome the obstacles to power - but that they all have. This volcanic ambition, Shenkman shows, has been essential not only in obtaining power but in facing - and attempting to master - the great historical forces that have continually reshaped the United States, from Manifest Destiny and Emancipation to immigration, the Great Depression, and nuclear weapons. - from the inside flap