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Within eight turbulent calendar months in 1974 Gerald Ford went from america House of Reps, where he was the minority leader, to the White House as the country's first and only unelected president. His unprecedented go up to electric power, after Richard Nixon's equally unprecedented show up, has garnered the lion's talk about of scholarly attention devoted to America's 38th president. But Gerald Ford's (1913-2006) life and job in and out of Washington spanned almost the complete 20th century. Ambition, Pragmatism, and Party captures for the first time the full scope of Ford's long and remarkable political life. The person who emerges is keenly ambitious, driven to climb the political ladder in Washington, and loyal to his get together however, not a political ideologue. Pulling on interviews with family and congressional and administrative officials, presidential historian Scott Kaufman traces Ford's path from a Depression-era child years through service in World Warfare II to entry into Congress shortly after the Cold Warfare begun. He delves deeply in to the workings of Congress and legislative-executive relations, offering information into Ford's role as the House minority leader in a period of traditional insurgency in the Republican Party.
