All the Presidents' Memories: How they Reconstruct the Past, Manage the Present and Shape the Future: Volume 1 - Softcover

Roth Ph. D., Henry J.; Roth M. D., Lorraine S.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1725593815 ISBN 13: 9781725593817

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2018

Synopsis

All the Presidents’ Memories, Volume I provides a glimpse into the character of eleven American Presidents through the words and images in their most compelling personal memories from their youth. Our understanding of each president deepens as we explore how their memories mirror underlying aspects of their personalities; and how those memories may have impacted their administration. This book investigates how a seemingly isolated moment in time can be transformed into an enduring set of themes whose meanings are embedded in symbolic language and graphic imagery. The selection of the eleven presidents in Volume I includes eight whom historians have typically ranked as the most influential and successful presidents: George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Andrew Jackson, James K. Polk, Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson and Franklin D. Roosevelt. In addition, three other presidents were selected for this first volume who were not typically ranked at the top: Ulysses S. Grant, Dwight D. Eisenhower and Richard M. Nixon; but their earliest memories provided exceptionally dramatic examples of how such memories can vividly reflect and shape character, personality and values; and foreshadow actions they took during their administration. For that reason, I chose not to start the book in proper numerical order beginning with our first president; but to start with Grant, Eisenhower and Nixon.

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About the Author

Henry Roth received his doctorate in Special Education, School Psychology and Counseling Psychology from Duke University in Durham, North Carolina. He has been the Principal of therapeutic day schools in Durham and Chicago; and Executive Director of the Sonia Shankman Orthogenic School at the University of Chicago. He has been an adjunct instructor in Special Education at Northeastern Illinois University, and most recently at George Mason and Trinity Washington universities. Over his career, Henry has employed early memories as an effective diagnostic and therapeutic counseling technique. In occasionally running across a president’s memory in his reading, Henry became interested in finding other presidents’ memories and analyzing how they helped to shape their character and actions. This book grew out of that interest. If you have any comments or questions that you would like to ask Henry, he can be reached at: HenryRoth2003@gmail.com

Edition details

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1725593815
• ISBN 13: 9781725593817
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 296