U.S. Presidents: Truman and Johnson

U.S. Presidents: Truman and Johnson
Author: Bonnie J. Krueger
Publisher: Lorenz Educational Press
Total Pages: 14
Release: 2009-09-01
Genre: Games & Activities
ISBN: 0787719730

This imaginative cross-curricular resource is the perfect way to reinforce basic grammar skills as well as introduce the study of United States presidents to your class. A short biography is included for each featured president: Harry Truman and Lyndon B. Johnson. They contain secret, embedded information. Students must study the biography and crack the code to answer a set of worksheet questions. It is within these hidden codes that students will practice revision marks and parts of speech. Level: Medium

Waging Peace & War

Waging Peace & War
Author: Thomas J. Schoenbaum
Publisher:
Total Pages: 608
Release: 2002-03-22
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780743241786

Waging Peace and War

Waging Peace and War
Author: Thomas J. Schoenbaum
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Total Pages: 616
Release: 1988
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN:

The only man yet to reveal his part in the decisions made regarding U.S. involvement in Vietnam is interviewed. Thomas Schoenbaum writes a biography destined to receive international attention, a volume that is as close as America will ever come to Rusk's own story.

Kennedy, Johnson, and the Quest for Justice

Kennedy, Johnson, and the Quest for Justice
Author: Jonathan Rosenberg
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages: 390
Release: 2003
Genre: African Americans
ISBN: 9780393051223

This volume is composed of transcripts from the secret recordings that Presidents Kennedy and Johnson made of White House meetings and phone conversations about the violent Civil Rights crisis. As fly-on-the-wall history, this book gives an unprecedented grasp of the way the White House affected civil rights history and consequently transformed America.